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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.
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 ...
The founders of ArenaNet were former employees of Blizzard Entertainment who played important roles in developing the video games Warcraft, Warcraft 2, StarCraft, Diablo, Diablo II, and the Battle.net gaming network. They left Blizzard in February 2000 to form their own company.
Under Blizzard Entertainment, it invested in esports initiatives around several of its games, most notably Overwatch and Call of Duty. Activision Blizzard's titles have broken a number of release records. [9] [10] [11] As of March 2018, it was the largest game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization. [12]
World of Warcraft Classic is a 2019 massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment.Running alongside the main version of the game, Classic recreates World of Warcraft in the vanilla state it was in before the release of its first expansion, The Burning Crusade.
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.
Diablo III is a 2012 online-only action role-playing dungeon crawling game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment as the third installment in the Diablo franchise.It was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in May 2012, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in August 2014, and Nintendo Switch in November 2018.
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 ...