Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
FoundedFebruary 1991 (1991-02)
Founders
  • Allen Adham
  • Michael Morhaime
  • Frank Pearce
Headquarters
Irvine, California
,
U.S.
Number of locations
9 studios and offices
Key people
Products
Number of employees
 4,700[2] (2012)
Parent
  • Davidson & Associates
  • (1994–1998)
  • Vivendi Games
  • (1998–2008)
  • Activision Blizzard
  • (2008–present)
SubsidiariesBlizzard Albany
Proletariat
Websiteblizzard.com

Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game maker and publisher. The company headquarters is in Irvine, California.[3] The company makes the Diablo, Overwatch, StarCraft, and Warcraft games.

Since October 2005, they held major events known as "BlizzCon" to gather game-fans and game-developers together annually.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ "New Leadership at Blizzard".
  2. ↑ Gamasutra Staff (February 9, 2012). "DICE 2012: Blizzard's Pearce on World Of Warcraft's launch hangover". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Company Profile
  4. ↑ World of Warcraft - Pandora's Box. 2022


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