Winter is Coming: The Early Days of Blizzard

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Winter is Coming: The Early Days of Blizzard

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Nov 18, 2019

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Founded in 1991, the video game company Blizzard got its start not by creating blockbuster games of its own but by porting other companies' games to different platforms. This is the story of the founding of Blizzard.
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