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Blizzard has been long associated with gaming excellence, having pumped out award-winning real-time strategy and RPG games for the last 10 years. And Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham has witnessed the company s success unfold right from the start -- from very humble beginnings to the height of the industry.
Adham started coding games while studying at UCLA. The success of his first two games, Gunslinger and Demon s Forge, encouraged him to strike out with a new game company, Silicon & Synapse, which would eventually evolve into Blizzard Entertainment.
Along with his partner, Mike Morhaime, Adham and the small-but-growing staff released the now-classic Rock n Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings for the SNES, published by Interplay. These two hits garnered much recognition from the gaming community, and provided a spark required for Adham to make the jump to the big time. One company name change later and Blizzard was born. The crucial moment in Adham s career was just around the corner with the development and release ofWarcraftfor the PC, which received critical acclaim and took the relatively young RTS genre to a new level.
Adham would follow up with the action RPG,Diablo, and the incredibly popularStarCraft. These franchises helped redefine strategy and fantasy computer games. Even thought many developers have tried to knock Blizzard from the throne, the company has always come out in the end as king. Without Adham?s presence, it s possible that strategy/RTS games would look quite different today. We?re sure that Adham and Co. will keep refining, tweaking and innovating for many years to come.
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World of Warcraft (2004), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Diablo II (2000), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Diablo II (Collector?s Edition) (2000), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
StarCraft 64 (2000), Nintendo of America Inc.
StarCraft (1998), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
StarCraft: Brood War (1998), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Diablo (1997), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Norse By Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings (1997), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Justice League Task Force (1995), Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
BlackThorne (1994), Interplay Productions, Inc.
The Death and Return of Superman (1994), SunSoft
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994), Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
Rock ?n Roll Racing (1993), Interplay Productions, Inc.
The Lost Vikings (1992), Interplay Productions, Inc. | | |
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