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• Blizzard Wants Copyright Laws Changed
  Thursday 8 May 2008 – 10:50 in Business
  Cheating is bad, but does cheating infringe on a video game publisher’s copyright? World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard, a subsidiary of Vivendi, is trying to argue in court that it does.
• Blizzard Sees More WoW Expansions
  Thursday 20 November 2008 – 10:40 in Gaming
  Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime is already talking about future expansions to World of Warcraft.
• European Union Clears Activision-Blizzard Merger As Industry Awaits Its New King
  Friday 18 April 2008 – 12:50 in Business
  The European Union’s executive branch, the European Commission, has formally cleared the merger of video game publishers Activision and Blizzard under the corporate umbrella of the French media giant Vivendi.
• NCSoft West to Take on Blizzard in Next-Gen MMOs
  Friday 12 September 2008 – 12:20
  Wednesday NCSoft announced its plans to consolidate its western offices by the end of 2008. Led by Chris Chung, previous CEO of NC Interactive, NC West will merge NC Europe, NC Austin, ArenaNET as well as NC Interactive into one subsidiary located in Sea
• Blizzard Speaks Out on DRM
  Tuesday 21 October 2008 – 01:40 in Business
  Seems as though everyone has something to say about DRM, and the latest preacher to step on the soapbox is Blizzard's CEO Mike Morhaime.
• Activision and Blizzard merge in $18bn deal
  Monday 3 December 2007 – 10:56 in Business
  Game giants Activision and Blizzard have announced that they will merge to form what they are calling “the world's most profitable games business”.
• Blizzard looking to hire a console programmer
  Friday 7 July 2006 – 10:24
  Could World of Warcraft or Starcraft: Ghost be coming to a game console near you? Blizzard, the makers of WoW and Starcraft, is looking for an experienced console programmer. The job ad, titled Next-Gen Senior Engine Programmer, is currently on Blizzard's website.
• Blizzard to buy 1500 Opteron servers?
  Wednesday 1 February 2006 – 05:53
  Ask any hardcore gamer what brand of processor he wants to have running his rig and nine times out of ten he will tell you "AMD." The underdog in the CPU market is very much the golden boy of the gaming clique - so much so that it appears that Massively Multiplayer Online Game operators are beginning to buy servers based on the company's Opteron technology to provide the massive amounts of muscle required to run them.
• Chinese firm sues Blizzard over World of Warcraft fonts
  Monday 20 August 2007 – 10:16 in Business
  Beijing (China) - Founder Electronics, an IT firm in China, has filed a lawsuit against Blizzard Entertainment seeking more than $13 million because it claims Blizzard stole its fonts. According to Chinese publication People’s Daily Online, Founder has i
• Blizzard offers 10-day trial of WoW expansion
  Thursday 19 April 2007 – 11:38
  Blizzard is now offering a 10-day free trial of its Burning Crusade World of Warcraft Expansion. ...
• The great Blizzard tease continues
  Friday 18 May 2007 – 01:32
  Blizzard Entertainment is continuing to tease millions of gamers with their new splashpages on blizzard.com and worldofwarcraft.com. ...
• Blizzard shutters northern outpost
  Tuesday 2 August 2005 – 07:09
  The team behind the enormously popular Diablo franchise - most recently known as Blizzard North, the Bay Area outpost of Irvine, Calif-based Blizzard Entertainment - has been officially shuttered.
• Blizzard to Show Act III and Barbarian Character at E3
  Thursday 15 April 1999 – 07:41
  Blizzard Entertainment has released some new details about the status of Diablo II, an upcoming sequel to the original 1997 role-playing game.
• Vivendi Universal profits boosted by World of Warcraft
  Friday 4 November 2005 – 05:12
  Vivendi Universal has posted its third quarter financial results, beating analyst expectations thanks to a doubling of revenues from its games division, fueled by the success of Blizzard's World of Warcraft.
• WoW Diehards Hit Level 80
  Tuesday 18 November 2008 – 11:20 in Gaming
  World of Warcraft die-hards have completed all of the expansion's content