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BY HANNAH MADANS, Orange County Register: Business
Fri, 11/21/2014 - 3:00pm

Twenty years ago this weekend, Blizzard Entertainment was born and its first orcs were released on the gaming world. Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment, spawned by three UCLA grads in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, has morphed into a multiplayer gaming...

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