Als er een bedrijf is dat nog een behoorlijk status heeft weten te behouden in de gamesbiz dan is het Blizzard wel. Dat was CDMAG blijkbaar ook van mening, want zij maakten een flinke feature over de geschiedenis achter dit bedrijf.

Hier wordt oa gekeken naar de befaamde cinematics van de Blizzardgames en een stukje historie."Dune II was the one that started it all," explains Blizzard's Bill Roper. "We couldn't believe that no one else, including Westwood, had ever done another game that had this real-time strategy element. [WarCraft] got strong reviews and was really well accepted by journalists and the hardcore gaming community. For a first title it sold really well, and Davidson was ecstatic with it. We did more than our projected numbers and it established what I think has always been a precedent for Blizzard. We really work to make excellent, definitive titles."

In December of 1995, Blizzard released its biggest game yet WarCraft II: Tides of Darkne . This would be the first in a string of games that would garner game of the year honors from various sources and top the sales charts. WarCraft II expanded on the gameplay of the first game, offering a new resource to mine in oil, and it was the first game with playable naval units. Kan je nagaan...Blizzard is geinspireerd door Westwood. What's in a name?