Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA ,< ref name =" UCLAHonorDinner2006_11_06 ">

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.

* 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 '.

Unlike previous Blizzard titles, such as Warcraft II or StarCraft, players are not directed to mission briefings in which plot exposition occurs and objectives are announced ; rather, Warcraft III uses a system of " seamless quests.

" There sits the most dangerous woman in America ", announced Blizzard.

On May 29, 2003, Blizzard announced that the expansion set had " gone gold ".

In March 2009, GarageGames announced it had obtained the rights to the Tribes franchise from Activision Blizzard and would be bringing Starsiege: Tribes to InstantAction as PlayTribes.

On August 1, 2005, Blizzard Entertainment announced the closure of Blizzard North.

In December 2007, Activision and Vivendi Games merged to become Activision Blizzard ; the new company announced the dismissal of Assault on Dark Athena, Brütal Legend, Ghostbusters: The Video Game and others from its roster in July 2008.

The Blizzard found new investors in an ownership group of local businessmen and in late October it was announced that Titletown Football Group, LLC had purchased the Blizzard from the ownership group which was headed by Brian Noble.

In November 2009, the team announced that they would play the 2010 season in the Indoor Football League At a team open house on November 17, 2009 the Blizzard announced their new head coach would be Rik Richards.

On December 5, 2009 the Blizzard announced the " Name the Team " contest.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that there will be no Blizzcon 2012, and that the next one will be held in 2013.

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.

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.

* January 12 – Blizzards ( see: Schoolhouse Blizzard ) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.

The Lost Vikings 3 is predicted to come out on 2015 or 2016, but will be not developed by Interplay or Blizzard.

Surface analysis of Great Blizzard of 1888 on March 12, 1888 at 10 pm

His first theatrical film direction was 2003's Blizzard for which he received a " Best of Fest " award from the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and a Genie Award nomination for his work on the film's theme song, " Center of My Heart.

The biggest recorded snow storm was the Great Blizzard of 1978, which occurred on January 26 – 27, 1978.

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.

The highest recorded temperature was on July 20, 1930, and August 6, 1918, while the lowest recorded temperature was on February 11, 1899, during the Great Blizzard of 1899.

During the Blizzard of 1996, on January 6, a Metro operator was killed when a train failed to stop at the Shady Grove station.

Blizzard, citing security and piracy concerns on their webpage about emulation, does not allow battle. net to interoperate with bnetd servers to verify CD keys.

The district court properly granted summary judgement in favor of Blizzard and Vivendi on the operability exception.

As well as being a producer on Bones since its third season, Boreanaz also directed a number of episodes, including " The Bones That Foam ," " The Parts in the Sum of the Whole ," " The Bullet in the Brain ," and " The Blackout in the Blizzard.

The album also includes studio outtakes of Rhoads recording the classical-influenced acoustic guitar piece, " Dee ", which Rhoads wrote for his mother Delores, and which was originally included on Osbourne's debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz.

" Goodbye to Romance " and " No Bone Movies " are taken from the very first Blizzard tour, possibly from Southampton on October 2, 1980.

While many game developers, such as Blizzard ( creator of World of Warcraft ), prohibit the practice, it is common that goods and services within virtual economies will be sold on online auction sites and traded for real currencies.

In January 2010, Blizzard stepped up its offensive on account security scams with the launch of a new website.

The songs " Goodbye to Romance " and " No Bone Movies " from the Tribute album were recorded on the UK Blizzard of Ozz tour at Southampton, the same date as the Mr. Crowley EP.