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Blizzard Entertainment

American video game publisher and developer owned by Microsoft
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Summary

Blizzard Entertainment is a video game developer[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of video game developer entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,844 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: BigBrotherAwards[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Irvine[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Instance of: video game publisher[6]
  • Founder: Michael Morhaime[7]
  • Owned by: Activision Blizzard[8]
  • Named after: blizzard[9]
  • Headquarters location: Irvine[10]
  • Commons category: Blizzard Entertainment[11]
  • Review score: 3.7883594036102295/5[12]
  • Industry: video game industry[13]
  • Inception: February 8, 1991[14]
  • Parent organization or unit: Activision Blizzard[15]
  • Significant event: Blizzard Entertainment 2012 data breach[16]
  • Official website: https://www.blizzard.com/de-de/[17], https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/[18], https://www.blizzard.com/en-gb/[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Blizzard Entertainment[20]
  • Product or material produced: software[21], video game[22]
  • Employees: 4700[23], 13,000[24]
  • Nominated for: The Game Awards − Developer of the Year[25]
  • Legal form: joint-stock company[26]
  • Category of associated people: Category:Blizzard Entertainment people[27]
  • Owner of: Blizzard North[28]
  • Has list: list of Blizzard Entertainment games[29]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Original Production[30]

  • Country: US[31]

  • Began / founded: 1994[32]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e408b7b2-cfaa-476c-bf82-b685fa45492b[33]

Why It Matters

Blizzard Entertainment has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

FAQs

What awards did Blizzard Entertainment receive?

Honors received include BigBrotherAwards[3].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . bigbrotherawards.de. bigbrotherawards.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . play.google.com. Retrieved . play.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . darkreading.com. Retrieved . darkreading.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . gamasutra.com. Retrieved . gamasutra.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . annual report. Retrieved . investor.activision.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . polygon.com. polygon.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 23w ago · Lmerice · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nominated for → The Game Awards − Developer of the Year
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