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6 unusual facts about Blizzard Entertainment


Beyond the Game

During his eleven month stay there he wins the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational and is recognized as the world's most successful gamer.

Fog of war

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

Friz Quadrata

Friz Quadrata can be seen in Blizzard Entertainment's 2002 RTS Warcraft III and 2004 MMORPG World of Warcraft to display character names and item information.

Grand Poobah

In Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, there is a Tauren NPC named Princess Poobah that gives a quest line to rescue her from Jaguero Isle in the Cape of Stranglethorn.

Hybrid disc

Blizzard Entertainment has released most of their computer games on hybrid CDs.

Scholomance

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.


Compupress

In addition, Anubis has also published more than 80 books of the classic RPG Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms series licensed from Wizards of the Coast, a number of Warhammer novels licensed from Black Library, as well as a dozen Warcraft and Starcraft novels licensed from Blizzard Entertainment.

Game accessibility

Some of their efforts include: pressuring NCSoft to remove Game Guard from the game Aion and discussing with game developer Blizzard the addition of color blind friendly enhancements to the game World of Warcraft.

Poxy Boggards

During his tenure at the gaming company Blizzard, the music of the Poxy Boggards was featured in the game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.

Races and factions of Warcraft

The pandaren were originally introduced as an April Fools' joke by Blizzard's art director Samwise Didier as a playable race in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne; in the "bonus" campaign centered around the Horde, the pandaren brewmaster Chen Stormstout is a supporting character, marking the first appearance of the race in Warcraft.

Respecification

Note: While the phrase respec is used in the World of Warcraft MMO to mean the same thing, the game's creator, Blizzard Entertainment, actually uses the word "specialization," so that to respec is to respecialize.

Ron Millar

He previously worked at companies such as Jaleco Entertainment, where he was lead designer on Goblin Commander; Redline Games, where he worked on the cancelled project Third World; and Blizzard Entertainment, where he worked on titles such as StarCraft and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.

Warcraft III professional competition

:He is one of the most successful Warcraft III players ever, holding among other achievements first places at the World e-Sports Games, Blizzard Worldwide Invitational and Cyberathlete Professional League competitions.

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans is a novel by Star Trek novelist Christie Golden based in Blizzard Entertainments Warcraft Universe.

YNK Korea

The company originally concentrated primarily on a game marketing and a character licensing of Blizzard Entertainment then it started to focusing on onlnie game contents publishing.


see also

Dean M. Peterson

In 2012, he was elected to the "Triangle Wall of Fame" by the Triangle Fraternity of Architects and Engineers, together with Michael Morhaime, founder of Blizzard Entertainment and developer of World of Warcraft.

Samwise

Samwise Didier, an artist and Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment

WC2

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, a computer game published by Blizzard Entertainment