Blizzard is headquartered in Irvine, California, United States.
Blizzard Entertainment is a well-known game production and distribution company. It was founded on February 8, 1991 by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce, under the name Silicon & Synapse; In 1994, the brand was officially renamed "Blizzard".
Blizzard has launched a number of classic series, including the "Warcraft" series, "StarCraft" series, "Diablo" series, "World of Warcraft", "Hearthstone", " Heroes of the Storm" and "Overwatch."
The "Warcraft" series, "StarCraft" series and "Heroes of the Storm" have all been listed as major competitions in many well-known e-sports competitions and enjoy high praise in the computer game industry.
On July 9, 2008, Activision Blizzard officially merged into Vivendi, a holding company that includes the Blizzard Entertainment brand name. In July 2013, Activision Blizzard bought back a majority stake from parent company Vivendi and became an independent company.
Blizzard Entertainment is now an independent division of the American video game publisher Activision Blizzard. In fact, both companies operate independently in the research and development process.
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Establishment background
Blizzard Entertainment was acquired in the early years. After many changes of hands, it was integrated into Snow Mountain Online (later renamed Snow Mountain Online). Leshan Entertainment), and behind Xueleshan is Vivendi Group. Vivendi reorganized its gaming business in 2004 and established a subsidiary, Vivendi Games. Vivendi Games consists of multiple divisions such as Snow Mountain and Blizzard Entertainment.
With the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, Vivendi Games’ divisions such as Sierra and Blizzard Entertainment were integrated into Activision. However, this does not have much impact on the overall operation of Blizzard Entertainment. Because for Blizzard, it just changed another owner, but this time the new owner is Activision, a well-known American game publisher giant in the industry.