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Battle.net was officially renamed to "Blizzard Battle.net" in August 2017, with the change being reverted in January 2021. [1] Battle.net was the first online gaming service incorporated directly into the games that make use of it, in contrast to the external interfaces used by the other online services at the time.
Activision Blizzard, Inc. [a] is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. [3] Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: [4] Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, [5] Major League Gaming, [6] and Activision Blizzard Studios.
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 ...
Warcraft II: Battle Chest (1996), [30] Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (1997), [31] and Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition (1999) include the original game and Dark Portal [24] Included without expansions in the Blizzard's Game of the Year Collection (1998), [ 32 ] and with the Dark Portal expansion in Blizzard Anthology (2000) [ 33 ] and Warcraft III ...
File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or how much storage space it is allocated. Typically, file size is expressed in units based on byte . A large value is often expressed with a metric prefix (as in megabyte and gigabyte ) or a binary prefix (as in mebibyte and gibibyte ).
ArenaNet founders Jeff Strain and Patrick Wyatt left ArenaNet to take roles at NCSoft West in 2008, and ultimately left NCSoft in 2009. [6] [7] In February 2019, ArenaNet underwent significant layoffs, estimated to affect as much as 33% of employees. The company also merged with NCSoft's publishing division.
StarCraft: Remastered is a remastered edition of the 1998 real-time strategy video game StarCraft and its expansion Brood War, which was released on August 14, 2017.It retains the gameplay of the original StarCraft, but features ultra-high-definition graphics (ultra HD), re-recorded audio, and Blizzard's modern online feature suite.
Hearthstone is a 2014 online digital collectible card video game produced by Blizzard Entertainment, released under the free-to-play model. Originally subtitled Heroes of Warcraft, Hearthstone builds upon the existing lore of the Warcraft series by using the same elements, characters, and relics.