Blizzard Entertainment

	Blizzard Entertainment
	Företagets logotyp
Typ	Del av Activision Blizzard
Huvudkontor	Irvine, Kalifornien
Nyckelpersoner	J. Allen Brack (VD); Allen Adham (SVP); Shahram Dabiri (producent för World of Warcraft); Jeffrey Kaplan (Overwatch)
Bransch	Dator- och TV-spel
Produkter	Warcraft-serien; Diablo-serien; Starcraft-serien
Antal anställda	4700 (2012)
Historik
Grundat	1991 (som Silicon & Synapse)
Grundare	Allen Adham; Michael Morhaime; Frank Pearce
Ekonomi
Omsättning	1,2 miljarder dollar (2007)
Struktur
Ägare	Vivendi SA (54 %)
Moderbolag	Vivendi Games (upphört); Activision Blizzard (nuvarande)
Övrigt
Webbplats	www.blizzard.com

Michael Morhaime, medgrundare och tidigare VD

Blizzard Entertainment, tidigare Silicon & Synapse, är ett amerikanskt mjukvaruföretag med inriktning på spel. År 2008 slogs företagets dåvarande ägare, Vivendi Games, samman med Activision och bildade Activision Blizzard som Blizzard då ställdes under.

Blizzard ligger bakom flera av 1990-talets storsäljande titlar som RTS-spelen Warcraft och Starcraft samt RPG-spelen Diablo & World of Warcraft. Deras senast släppta spel är FPS-spelet Overwatch.^[3]

Spel

Utvecklade spel

Titel	År	Plattform(ar)	Genre
som Silicon & Synapse
RPM Racing^[4]	1991	SNES	Racingspel
The Lost Vikings^[5]	1992	Amiga, Amiga CD32, GBA, MS-DOS, Mega Drive, SNES	Sidscrollande datorspel
Rock n' Roll Racing^[5]	1993	SNES, Mega Drive, GBA	Racingspel
som Blizzard Entertainment
Blackthorne^[5]	1994	SNES, Sega 32X, MS-DOS, GBA, Mac OS Classic	Plattformsspel
The Death and Return of Superman^[5]	1994	SNES, Mega Drive	Sidscrollande datorspel
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans	1994	MS-DOS, Mac OS Classic	Realtidsstrategi
Justice League Task Force^[6]	1995	Mega Drive, SNES	Fightingspel
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness	1995	MS-DOS, Linux, AmigaOS 4, Mac OS Classic, Saturn, Playstation, Windows	Realtidsstrategi
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal	1996	Mac OS Classic, MS-DOS, Playstation, Saturn, Windows	Expansionspaket
Diablo	1996	Windows, Mac OS Classic, Playstation	Actionrollspel
The Lost Vikings II	1997	SNES, Saturn, Playstation, Windows	Sidscrollande datorspel
Starcraft	1998	Windows, Mac OS Classic, Nintendo 64	Realtidsstrategi
Starcraft: Brood War	1998	Windows, Mac OS Classic	Expansionspaket
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition	1999	Windows, Mac OS Classic	Realtidsstrategi
Diablo II	2000	Windows, Mac OS Classic, OS X	Actionrollspel
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction	2001	Windows, Mac OS Classic, OS X	Expansionspaket
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos	2002	Windows, Mac OS Classic, OS X	Realtidsstrategi
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne	2003	Windows, Mac OS Classic, OS X	Expansionspaket
World of Warcraft	2004	Windows, OS X	MMORPG
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade	2007	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King	2008	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty	2010	Windows, OS X	Realtidsstrategi
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm	2010	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Diablo III	2012	Windows, OS X, Playstation 3, Xbox 360	Actionrollspel
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria	2012	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm	2013	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft	2014	Windows, OS X, iOS, Android	Digitalt samlarkortspel
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls	2014	Windows, OS X, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Xbox One	Expansionspaket
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor	2014	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void	2015	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Heroes of the Storm	2015	Windows, OS X	Multiplayer online battle arena
Overwatch	2016	Windows, Playstation 4, Xbox One^[3]	Förstapersonsskjutare
World of Warcraft: Legion	2016	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth	2018	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands	2020	Windows, OS X	Expansionspaket
Diablo IV	Under utveckling	Windows	Actionrollspel

Portningar

Titel	År	Plattform(ar)	Genre
som Silicon & Synapse
Battle Chess	1992	Windows 3.x och Commodore 64 portningar^[7]	Schack
Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess	1992	Amiga portning^[7]	Schack
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I	1992	Amiga portning^[7]	Rollspel
Castles	1992	Amiga portning^[4]	Strategispel
MicroLeague Baseball	1992	Amiga portning^[4]	Sportspel
Lexi-Cross	1992	Macintosh portning^[4]	Pusselspel
Dvorak on Typing	1992	Macintosh portning^[4]	Pedagogiska spel
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye^[7]	1994	Windows 3.x portning	Mahjong solitaire

Referenser

Fotnoter

^ Gamasutra Staff (9 februari 2012). ”DICE 2012: Blizzard's Pearce on World Of Warcraft's launch hangover”. Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/40230/DICE_2012_Blizzards_Pearce_on_World_Of_Warcrafts_launch_hangover.php. Läst 23 januari 2013.
^ McWhertor, Michael (30 januari 2008). ”Blizzard Loots $1.2 Billion From 2007, Thanks To WoW” (på engelska). Kotaku. Arkiverad från originalet den 25 maj 2012. https://archive.is/20120525084549/http://kotaku.com/350895/blizzard-loots-12-billion-from-2007-thanks-to-wow. Läst 3 november 2009.
^ [a b] ”Overwatch”. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/overwatch/. Läst 26 maj 2016.
^ [a b c d e] ”Blizzard Timeline”. Blizzard Entertainment. Arkiverad från originalet den 8 juni 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20030608120959/http://www.blizzard.com/blizz-anniversary/timeline.shtml.
^ [a b c d] ”Company Profile”. Blizzard Entertainment. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 september 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090916172330/http://eu.blizzard.com/en/inblizz/profile.html. Läst 7 juli 2008. ”Prior to the release of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Blizzard served as a third-party developer, creating entertainment software for various platforms, including DOS, Macintosh, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo. The company's best-known titles from this era include Rock 'n Roll Racing, The Lost Vikings, Blackthorne, and The Death and Return of Superman.”
^ ”Blizzard North: Condor and Diablo”. Blizzard Entertainment. Arkiverad från originalet den februari 22, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020222115131/http://www.blizzard.com/blizz-anniversary/blizznorth.shtml.
^ [a b c d] ”A Decade of Blizzard”. IGN. 1 februari 2001. Arkiverad från originalet den 18 februari 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20020218050643/http://pc.ign.com/articles/090/090953p1.html. Läst 7 juli 2008. ”Commodore 64 Battle Chess, Windows Battle Chess, Amiga Battle Chess II, Amiga Lord of the Rings, and Windows Shanghai were some of our early projects.”

Externa länkar

[gamasutra-dice-2012-1] Gamasutra Staff (9 februari 2012). ”DICE 2012: Blizzard's Pearce on World Of Warcraft's launch hangover”. Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/40230/DICE_2012_Blizzards_Pearce_on_World_Of_Warcrafts_launch_hangover.php. Läst 23 januari 2013.

[2] McWhertor, Michael (30 januari 2008). ”Blizzard Loots $1.2 Billion From 2007, Thanks To WoW” (på engelska). Kotaku. Arkiverad från originalet den 25 maj 2012. https://archive.is/20120525084549/http://kotaku.com/350895/blizzard-loots-12-billion-from-2007-thanks-to-wow. Läst 3 november 2009.

[:0-3] [a b] ”Overwatch”. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/overwatch/. Läst 26 maj 2016.

[blizz_tline-4] [a b c d e] ”Blizzard Timeline”. Blizzard Entertainment. Arkiverad från originalet den 8 juni 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20030608120959/http://www.blizzard.com/blizz-anniversary/timeline.shtml.

[euro_profile-5] [a b c d] ”Company Profile”. Blizzard Entertainment. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 september 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090916172330/http://eu.blizzard.com/en/inblizz/profile.html. Läst 7 juli 2008. ”Prior to the release of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Blizzard served as a third-party developer, creating entertainment software for various platforms, including DOS, Macintosh, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo. The company's best-known titles from this era include Rock 'n Roll Racing, The Lost Vikings, Blackthorne, and The Death and Return of Superman.”

[6] ”Blizzard North: Condor and Diablo”. Blizzard Entertainment. Arkiverad från originalet den februari 22, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020222115131/http://www.blizzard.com/blizz-anniversary/blizznorth.shtml.

[ign_decade_of_blizz-7] [a b c d] ”A Decade of Blizzard”. IGN. 1 februari 2001. Arkiverad från originalet den 18 februari 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20020218050643/http://pc.ign.com/articles/090/090953p1.html. Läst 7 juli 2008. ”Commodore 64 Battle Chess, Windows Battle Chess, Amiga Battle Chess II, Amiga Lord of the Rings, and Windows Shanghai were some of our early projects.”

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