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BattlEye is a proprietary anti-cheat software designed to detect players that hack or abusively use exploits in an online game.It was initially released as a third-party anti-cheat for Battlefield Vietnam in 2004 and has since been officially implemented in numerous video games, primarily shooter games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds, Arma 3, Destiny 2, War Thunder, and DayZ.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.Originally founded in 1991, the company is best known for producing the highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004), as well as the multi-million selling video game franchises Diablo, StarCraft and ...
Battle.net is an Internet-based online game, social networking service, digital distribution, and digital rights management platform developed by Blizzard Entertainment.The service was launched on December 31, 1996, followed a few days later with the release of Blizzard's action-role-playing video game Diablo on January 3, 1997.
[1] [2] 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.
[35] [36] By the end of 2010, Activision Blizzard was the largest video games publisher in the world. [37] The 2011 release of Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 grossed $400 million in the US and UK alone in its first 24 hours, making it the biggest entertainment launch of all time. [ 38 ]
Odyssey was the project name for a cancelled Blizzard Entertainment survival game.Meant to be the first new Blizzard IP since Overwatch, it began development in 2017, and concept art of its setting depicted portals between modern-day Earth and a fairytale world.
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game (RTS). [4] [5] [6] The player takes the role of either the Human inhabitants of Azeroth, or the invading Orcs.[7] [8] In the single player campaign mode the player works through a series of missions, the objective of which varies, but usually involves building a small town, harvesting resources, building an army and then leading it to ...
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal is an expansion pack for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. It was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Cyberlore Studios, [3] and published by Blizzard in North America and Europe in 1996.