A case in which developer control was asserted involved Blizzard Entertainment's action against Tristan Pope's Not Just Another Love Story.

* In Blizzard Entertainment's popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, Crunchy Frog can be bought as food at the Darkmoon Faire, a traveling carnival.

bnetd is a software package that was reverse engineered from Blizzard Entertainment's Battle. net online multiplayer gaming service, providing near-complete emulation.

This game influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo.

The release of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft in 2004 and its subsequent huge success across the globe has forced both MMORPG and their secondary markets into mainstream consciousness, and many new market places have opened up during this time.

* StarCraft: Brood War, an expansion pack for Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game StarCraft

* Access to Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service, Battle. net, requires a low-latency, active Internet connection rated at 28. 8 kbit / s or faster.

A copy of Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft real-time strategy game was also flown aboard STS-96.

In the World Cyber Games realm, Blizzard Entertainment's video game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty uses a promotion and relegation system for its tournament structure.

The resignations were partly due to a conflict with Blizzard Entertainment's owner, Vivendi, and partly due to employees wishing to start something new.

In some MMOs this is not seen as cheating although others such as Nexon's Maplestory, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft or Jagex's RuneScape specifically forbid it.

In Blizzard Entertainment's universe of Starcraft, the Xel ' Naga are beings who are said to have been responsible for the creation of all of the sentient beings in the universe and nurturing their civilizations.

For example, this strategy is used in Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.

During Blizzard Entertainment's conversion of World Of Warcraft accounts to Battle. net accounts, all players who converted their accounts in advance of the deadline to convert received a permanent account-bound in-game companion pet in the form of a small penguin named " Mr. Chilly " as a free gift.

Contemporary MMORPGs such as Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft feature a mixture of single-player goals (" quests ") and larger end-game challenges that can only be completed via intensive co-op play, of up to twenty-five players in end-game raids, and up to forty versus forty in battlegrounds.

It was established by former employees of Blizzard Entertainment's Blizzard North division, the studio responsible for creating Diablo and Diablo II.

Blizzard Entertainment's audio director, Russell Brower says " Working somewhat against conventional expectations, Hell is a beautiful and seductive sound, provided by Dublin ’ s uniquely astounding choral group ANÚNA ".

The warlocks in Bungie's Myth II: Soulblighter are described as having been trained at a school of magic named the Scholomance, and in Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, the Scholomance is a ruined castle held by the Scourge whose cellars and crypts are now used to train necromancers and create undead monsters.

Warcraft: Of Blood and Honor is the fourth novel set in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe.

Warcraft: War of the Ancients Trilogy is a book trilogy written by Richard A. Knaak set in Blizzard Entertainment's popular video game universe, Warcraft.

Early 2009 saw the release of his first novel outside of the Black Library, I, Mengsk ( McNeill, 2009 ), set in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft universe.

The series is based on Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe and follows the adventures of Kalec, a blue dragon who takes the form of a human to investigate a mysterious power, and Anveena, a beautiful young maiden with an enchanting secret.

Since its original release, DotA has become a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment's BlizzCon and the Asian World Cyber Games, as well as the Cyberathlete Amateur and CyberEvolution leagues ; in a 2008 article of video game industry website Gamasutra, the article's author claimed that " DotA is likely the most popular and most-discussed free, non-supported game mod in the world ".

As a small tribute to the band, Southern California based Blizzard Entertainment included character references to some band members in the starting area for undead characters " The Forsaken " in the immensely popular World of Warcraft PC game.

During the Great Blizzard of 1888, this system was used to send and receive wireless messages from trains buried in snowdrifts, perhaps the first successful use of wireless telegraphy to send distress calls.

It also caused publishers to on occasion force developers to focus on sequels of successful franchises instead of exploring original IP ; some publishers such as Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts have both attracted criticism for acquiring studios with original games, and assigning them to support roles in more mainstream franchises.

Two of the most successful Blizzard franchises, Warcraft and StarCraft, also use a similar fog of war which only reveals terrain features and enemy units through a player's reconnaissance.

Terence had a successful junior career with the OCN Blizzard, and was named the Express ' Rookie of the Year.

Jefferson Kaye, however, had remained successful as the afternoon personality during this period ( he succeeding the retiring Clint Buehlman as morning show host in 1977 ; Buehlman's retirement was in part prompted by poor reviews for his handling of coverage of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 ).

Mark Williams, former operator of the successful ECHL team Huntington Blizzard, never commenced with his team in Huntington, West Virginia, because of the disappearance of the league owner.

The founders of ArenaNet were former employees of Blizzard Entertainment who played important roles in developing the highly successful video games Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Diablo II, and the Battle. net gaming network.

* The necromancer is a character class in the video game Diablo II, released by Blizzard Entertainment.

Like all previous Blizzard titles since Diablo, Warcraft III uses the Battle. net multiplayer network.

On August 1, 2011, Blizzard Entertainment announced that their forthcoming MMORPG, Diablo III, will include a currency-based auction house, wherein players will be able to buy and sell in-game items for real money.

Even Blizzard Entertainment has begun offering a bonus to Diablo III players who play at a PC Bang in the form of Magic Find and EXP bonus '.

Davidson & Associates is well-known with its line-up of Math Blaster related games, as well as developing educational software for Fisher-Price, plus it is well-known with its purchase of Blizzard Entertainment in the mid 1990s, the maker of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo.

In the next few years, Bob formed strategic partnerships with Fisher Price, Simon & Schuster, Kaplan, Inc. and made several strategic acquisitions, including Blizzard Entertainment with the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo products.

Michio would later find employment at Blizzard North where he worked on Diablo and Diablo II.

Keating has been confirmed as the voice of " Kormac the Templar " in the PC game Diablo 3 by Blizzard Entertainment.

* Leonard Boyarsky – took a year off due to burnout syndrome, then joined Blizzard Entertainment to work on Diablo 3.

Adham and Morhaime eventually changed the name of their company to Blizzard Entertainment, future developer of the Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo franchises.

Flagship Studios was a computer game company founded by Bill Roper along with Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik, the original developers of Diablo and former high level Blizzard North executives.

The core personnel of Flagship Studios had been collaborating as a team since 1993 when they founded Condor Studios ( later bought out and renamed Blizzard North ) and in addition to the Diablo franchise many were key high level executives in the development of Warcraft, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft.

Blizzard used this format for the cinematic videos seen in its famous games Warcraft II, StarCraft and Diablo I.

Blizzard North was the Bay Area division of Blizzard Entertainment, known for the Diablo series.

The company was purchased and renamed by Blizzard about six months before the release of their hit PC game, Diablo, in 1996.

A key reason for the closure was Blizzard North's poor development of what was to be Diablo III which did not meet the expectations of Vivendi.

* Diablo III, a 2012 action role-playing game PC game by Blizzard Entertainment

Also, the concept of two fighters sharing near identical appearances ( in this case, Sauron and Diablo, or Chaos and Blizzard ) resembles that of Scorpion and Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat.

The warriors would be Xiao Ming, avatar of Slashfang ; Malyssa, avatar of Vertigo ; Arik, avatar of Sauron ; Keena, avatar of Talon ; Shank, avatar of Chaos ; Sinjin, avatar of Diablo ; Kaze, avatar of Blizzard ; and Tor, avatar of Armadon.

Blizzard has stated that the monk is not related in any way to the monk class from the Sierra Entertainment-made Diablo: Hellfire expansion.