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Existing expansions are incorporated for free into the base game several years after release.Eight expansion packs developed and published by Blizzard: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007), World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (2008), World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (2010), World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (2012), World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (2014), World of Warcraft: Legion (2016), World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth (2018), and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (2020).Massively multiplayer online role-playing game.Included without expansions in the Blizzard's Game of the Year Collection (1998), and with the Dark Portal expansion in Blizzard Anthology (2000) and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Exclusive Gift Set (2002) collections.Warcraft II: Battle Chest (1996), Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (1997), and Warcraft II: Edition (1999) include the original game and Dark Portal.
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Five expansion packs released: Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996) by Cyberlore Studios and Blizzard and published by Blizzard, W!Zone (1996) and W!Zone II: Retribution (1996) developed by Sunstorm Interactive and published by WizardWorks, and The Next 70 Levels (1997) and The Next 350 Levels (1997) by Maverick Software.Games As Silicon & Synapse List of games as Silicon & Synapse Title Blizzard Entertainment has developed 19 games since 1991, in addition to developing 8 ports between 19 11 of those games are in the Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft series. With over 100 million lifetime accounts as of 2014 and US$9 billion in revenue as of 2017, World of Warcraft is one of the best-selling computer games and highest-grossing video games of all time. All of Blizzard's games released since 2004 still receive expansions and updates, especially the long-running massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004). Since the late 1990s, Blizzard has focused almost exclusively on the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series. The name was retained when Activision Blizzard became an independent company in 2013, while Blizzard itself has been an independent subsidiary company throughout.

īlizzard was acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates in 1994, and a chain of acquisitions over the next four years led Blizzard to being a part of Vivendi Games, a subsidiary of Vivendi when Vivendi Games merged with Activision in 2008 the resulting company was named Activision Blizzard. The company was renamed to Blizzard Entertainment in 1994, and in 1996 the company Condor, then developing Diablo (1997), was merged with Blizzard and renamed to Blizzard North it remained a separate studio for the company until it was closed in 2005. In 1992, however, the company began producing original games for home consoles with The Lost Vikings (1992) and Rock n' Roll Racing (1993), and beginning with Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994) it shifted to primarily focus on original computer games. The company initially concentrated on porting other studio's games to computer platforms, as well RPM Racing (1991), a remake of Racing Destruction Set (1985). The company was founded in February 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham. Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.
