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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]
Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [1] Out of the 59 largest video game companies, 14 are located in the United States, 11 in Japan, and 7 in South Korea. Warner Bros. Games, Annapurna Interactive and Valve Corporation are not included in this list.
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The merger was completed in July 2008. The new company was called Activision Blizzard and was headed by Kotick, while Vivendi maintained a 52% share in the company. [19] [51] The new company was estimated to be worth US$18.9 billion, ahead of Electronic Arts, which was valued at US$14.1 billion. [52]
The name was retained when Activision Blizzard became an independent company in 2013, while Blizzard itself has been an independent subsidiary company throughout. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Since the late 1990s, Blizzard has focused almost exclusively on the Warcraft , Diablo , StarCraft , and Overwatch series.
Blizzard Entertainment has been singled out as a symbol of the male-dominated gaming community's worst impulses. Mike Ybarra aims to change that. Blizzard's new boss wants to have fun with games.
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