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Blizzard Entertainment 20-Year Anniversary Celebration

Blizzard Entertainment is preparing to celebrate twenty years in the video game development business with a batch of media and articles that will be released in a staggered fashion, though at the moment there’s only this video of co-founders Mike…

Blizzard: A 20-Year Legacy of Quality and Awesomeness

To complement their Diablo III video interview and preview, G4 has put together this brief history piece to help celebrate Blizzard Entertainment’s impending 20-year anniversary. The greatest and most successful PC developer in the business: BlizzCon began in 2005 with…

BlizzCon 2011 Announced

We’re only a month into 2011 and Blizzard Entertainment has already blown the lid off their BlizzCon plans. Is the first step in their Diablo III Q4 2011 release plans? Maybe. BLIZZCON® 2011 ANNOUNCED Blizzard Entertainment’s sixth BlizzCon gaming celebration…

25 Best PC Games of the 2000s

GameSpy lists its top 25 PC games of the most recent decade, or in other words, the games we were playing from 2000-2009. Included are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at #16, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind at #14,…

Cancelled Diablo MMORPG Models Uncovered?

It’s no secret that there was a bit of a shake-up at Blizzard North back in 2003 when Bill Roper, Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, David Brevik, Mark Kern, and quite a few others left the company to form new development…

Blizzard Entertainment Video Interview

Destructoid caught up with Blizzard Entertainment’s Frank Pearce for a brief video interview during this year’s VGAs. In it, they talk about the awards, their plans for a World of Warcraft film, and Blizzard’s still-unannounced MMO project Titan. The media…

GoGamer Sale

GoGamer is running another 48-hour madness sale (with 31 hours left as of this writing). Titles that might interest GameBanshee users include Rise of the Argonauts for Xbox 360 (60% off), Diablo Battle Chest (50% off), Planescape: Torment (50% off) (still…

Building Battle.net

Gamasutra managed to corner Blizzard Entertainment’s Greg Canessa for an interesting interview about the challenges involved with building the modern Battle.net, why the company needs their own online platform, what sort of functionality they might add to it in the…

Blizzard Entertainment Interview

Edge Magazine managed to corner World of Warcraft designer Rob Pardo during last weekend’s BlizzCon for an interview about the evolution and growth of the company’s fan event, the lack of “meaningful competition” for WoW, whether they’re collaborating with Bungie…

The History of Blizzard Entertainment

To coincide with this past weekend’s BlizzCon, IGN has cranked out a four-page “History of Blizzard” feature that takes us through the early Warcraft days, the acquisition of Condor and their Diablo project, the enormous success of World of Warcraft,…