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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 ...
Activision Blizzard acquired social gaming company King, creator of casual game Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9 billion in November 2015. [5] In November 2015, Activision Blizzard announced the formation of Activision Blizzard Studios, a film production arm that would produce films and television series based on Activision Blizzard's franchises. [53]
Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.The company was founded in February 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.
Activision Blizzard is one of the largest video game publishers in the world, with annual revenues of about $8.8 billion in 2021. [3] The company is composed of five business units: [4] Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, [5] Major League Gaming, [6] and Activision Blizzard Studios.
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher ...
On May 3, 2022, Blizzard announced a new Warcraft free-to-play mobile game called Warcraft Arclight Rumble. [20] In 2022, Blizzard and NetEase cancelled an unannounced World of Warcraft mobile spin-off game. [21] On November 3, 2023, Blizzard released the free-to-play mobile tower defense and action strategy game Warcraft Rumble. [22]
Michael Morhaime (born November 3, 1967) is an American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Dreamhaven, located in Irvine, California . Morhaime is best known as the co-founder and the former president of Blizzard Entertainment , a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc ., that was ...
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