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Blizzard Entertainment is a video game developer and publisher founded in February 1991 in Irvine, California, originally as Silicon & Synapse by Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce. The company is known for major franchises such as World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone. It became a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard in 2008, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in 2023.

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