World of Warcraft has employees of Blizzard Entertainment that serve as gamemasters to help users with various problems in gameplay, chat, and other things like account and billing issues.

Some general film festivals accept machinima, and game companies, such as Epic Games, Blizzard Entertainment and Jagex, have sponsored contests involving it.

Blizzard Entertainment helped to set part of " Make Love, Not Warcraft ", an Emmy Award – winning 2006 episode of the comedy series South Park, in its massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) World of Warcraft.

A few weeks later, Blizzard Entertainment posted on WorldofWarcraft. com their " Letter to the Machinimators of the World ", a license for noncommercial use of game content.

It differs from Microsoft's declaration in that it addresses machinima specifically instead of general game-derived content, allows use of game audio if Blizzard can legally license it, requires derivative material to meet the Entertainment Software Rating Board's Teen content rating guideline, defines noncommercial use differently, and does not address extensions of fictional universes.

In December 2005, Blizzard Entertainment and Xfire, a gaming-focused instant messaging service, jointly sponsored a World of Warcraft machinima contest.

Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22, 2009 that Sam Raimi will be directing a film based on the Warcraft universe.

* Titan ( Blizzard Entertainment project ), project name for a massively multiplayer game

* Reign of Chaos, a Warcraft computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment

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

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos ( often referred to as War3 or WC3 or RoC ) is a real time strategy video game released by Blizzard Entertainment on July 3, 2002 ( US ).

Blizzard Entertainment also released the Warcraft Battle Chest, which contains Reign of Chaos bundled with The Frozen Throne in one box, along with guides from BradyGames.

The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle / platform video game series which was developed by Silicon & Synapse ( later Blizzard Entertainment ).

* Emulation FAQ-Blizzard Entertainment ( Activision Blizzard / Vivendi SA )

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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.

Blackthorne ( Blackhawk in some European countries ) is a cinematic platform video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

* Blizzard Entertainment legacy games

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.

* Sierra Entertainment, a computer game company, subsidiary of Activision Blizzard

* StarCraft, a real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment

Sam Lantinga would also later join Blizzard Entertainment and found Galaxy Gameworks to commercially support the Simple DirectMedia Layer ; he would later also join Valve Software's Linux team.

* High Templar, one of the most iconic Protoss units in StarCraft and StarCraft II by Blizzard Entertainment.

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 '.

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.

Blizzard Brothers Inc. are music artists from Sydney, Australia, who remixed / covered AC / DC's song, " Thunderstuck " and released it in Australia ( peaking # 30 on the ARIAnet Singles Chart ).

* New companies: Vicarious Visions, Inc, id Software, Bungie Software, Silicon & Synapse ( now known as Blizzard Entertainment ), The 3DO Company ( founded as SMSG, Inc .), Cyberdreams

The MegaDrive version was co-developed by Condor, Inc. and the SNES version by Blizzard Entertainment.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

* Great Blizzard of 1888, Northeastern U. S.

* 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor ' easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4 " an hour.

A gamemaster in this game will communicate with players through chat that has blue text and they will also have a special " GM " tag and Blizzard logo in front of their names.

* 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

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

Citing the user license agreement, Blizzard closed discussion threads about the film and prohibited links to it.

According to Hayes, Microsoft and Blizzard helped themselves through their licenses because fan creations provide free publicity and are unlikely to harm sales.

Hayes believes that this legal uncertainty is a suboptimal solution and that, though limited and " idiosyncratic ", the Microsoft and Blizzard licenses move towards an ideal video gaming industry standard for handling derivative works.

* 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U. S. Midwest.

The Blizzard of 1993 dumped over of snow in under 24 hours, and the First North American blizzard of 2010 ( locally known as " Snowpocalypse " and " Snowmageddon ") dumped nearly of snow in less than 24 hours.

Cold air masses arriving over the mountains in winter can lead to significant snowfalls, such as the Blizzard of 1996 and winter storms of 2009 – 2010.

On August 28, four days of fighting broke out on a front at Blair Mountain between coal company militia and thousands of Union miners led by Bill Blizzard.