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Here<\/a> is a great article from Escapist magazine about the history of Blizzard and why they are such a successful game software company. The article discusses all the phases of Blizzard’s development from Warcraft, to Diablo, to the insanely popular World of Warcraft. Good reading for us Blizzard fans out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a great article from Escapist magazine about the history of Blizzard and why they are such a successful game software company. The article discusses all the phases of Blizzard’s development from Warcraft, to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=123","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":0},"title":"World of Warcraft Performance Improved","author":"Matt","date":"January 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been an \"on-again, off-again\" WoW player since the WoW beta. 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