Blizzard Entertainment

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Blizzard Entertainment
Main leader	Michael Morhaime (president and co-founder), Frank Pearce (vice president and co-founder)
Secondary leaders	Rob Pardo (vice president), Chris Metzen (vice president of Creative Development), Shahram Dabiri (producer on World of Warcraft), Jeffrey Kaplan (lead designer on World of Warcraft)
Race(s)	Humans (presumed, rumors of others unconfirmed)
Capital	Irvine, California
Main language	Common/English
Secondary languages	Korean, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian
Theater of operations	Quality RTS and RPG video games

Blizzard Entertainment is the company that brought you the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises of gaming software. Besides the general list of products below, this article will simply refer you to their sites beginning with a page with lots of stuff about what Blizzard is, and then let you figure the rest out for yourself. ;)

On December 2nd 2007, Vivendi (Blizzard Entertainment's parent company) announced that their subsidiary Vivendi Games (of which Blizzard Entertainment was one of the divisions) would be merging with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.^[1] This merger will not affect Blizzard Entertainment's operations. This deal is set to be finalized on July 8, 2008.^[2]

Contents 1 Published games 1.1 Warcraft Universe 1.2 StarCraft Universe 1.3 Diablo Universe 1.4 Others 2 Canceled games 3 Indefinitely Postponed games 4 Confirmed upcoming projects 4.1 Rumored games 5 Notable employees 5.1 Organizations 6 Previous employees 7 References 8 External links

Published games

Warcraft Universe

• Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
• Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
• Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal
• Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
• Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
• World of Warcraft
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Related novels by PocketBooks
• Related pen-and-paper RPG materials

StarCraft Universe

• StarCraft
• StarCraft: Brood War
• Related novels by PocketBooks
• StarCraft II

Diablo Universe

• Diablo
• Diablo II
• Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• Related novels by PocketBooks
• Diablo III

Others

• Rock N' Roll Racing
• Blackthorne
• The Lost Vikings
• The Lost Vikings II

Canceled games

• Warcraft Adventures

Indefinitely Postponed games

• StarCraft: Ghost ^[3]

Confirmed upcoming projects

• Other additional World of Warcraft expansions
• StarCraft II ^[4]
• Diablo III ^[5]

Rumored games

Note: Blizzard has confirmed that they are NOT working on a StarCraft or Diablo MMOG.^[6]

• Warcraft IV would be another epic whose plot remains unknown.
• Future MMORPG.
  • "When we announce our next MMORPG it’s not going to be another WoW - we’re not a company that tends to tread the same ground. It’ll be something innovative and new that really brings entertainment to another level." ^[7]

Notable employees

• Michael Morhaime
• Frank Pearce

Organizations

• Community Managers
• Voice actors; some notable:
  • Tony Jay
  • Matthew Yang King
  • Jeff Bennett
  • Piera Coppola
  • Michael McConnohie
• Sons of the Storm:
  • Samwise Didier
  • Thammer
  • René Koiter
  • Raneman
  • Drawgoon
  • 
    Chris Metzen

Previous employees

• Bill Roper

References

1. ^ http://www.activisionblizzard.com/pressReleases/pr120207.php
2. ^ 2008-30-06, Eurogamer: Blizzard Worldwide Invertational. Rob Purchese. Accessed on 2008-01-07
3. ^ http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=32945
4. ^ http://www.starcraft2.com/
5. ^ http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
6. ^ http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/worldofwarcraftexp1/news.html?sid=6152718
7. ^ http://www.empireonline.com/interviews_and_events/interview.asp?IID=620

External links

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