Today Blizzard turns 25 years old.

On February 8, 1991, three guys from California founded a company you've likely never heard of, called Silicon & Synapse. Today, that same company marked 25 years of incredibly successful operation, most of it under a different name you certainly have heard of: Blizzard Entertainment.

Blizzard did some cool but relatively unremarkable things in its early days, like Lost Vikings and Blackthorne, but Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994, and then Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness in '95 really set things rolling. After that came Diablo, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, years of sequels and expansions galore, and in more recent history, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, both of them big hits in their own right.

There are literally no duds in that list, and so it's perfectly understandable (and forgivable) that the 25th anniversary celebration video Blizzard released today is more of a quickie flashback to past glories than it is a look ahead to the future—although CEO Mike Morhaime wraps up by saying he's excited for what's coming. “We have, I think, some of the most talented developers. We're going to have some really awesome games to play in the future,” he says. “So once again thank you for showing your support, for continuing to play our games, and we hope to live up to the high expectations that you guys have of us.”

Source: PCGamer http://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-is-25-years-old-today/

Can't believe it's been 25 years already, I can just about remember the times I played Warcraft II and III, eventually the first SC and it's expansion Brood War. A few buddies from High school asked if I wanted to join them on WoW for the first time and it being the first online RPG game I ever played back then, it captivated me for weeks, months and even years (technically to this day). Currently I'm playing Heroes of the Storm (left it for half a year but came back recently thanks to adding new heroes like Li-Ming from Diablo III) and a bit of Starcraft II and I;m certainly looking forward to playing Legion when it comes out.

Thanks for all the good years and titles you've given Blizz, I look forward to seeing more for years to come.

Nice, I still get fake emails from them

At least i want to hear about Warcraft 4! ;o

Same here. I really would love to see WC4 either sporting the engine they use for Heroes/SCII or a new one, but either way I would love a new WC RTS in the next few years.

With this engine and new epic storyline. And also they better include map editor or custom map.

That gif still makes me upset they cancelled Starcraft Ghosts lol

15 month wait for content in world of warcraft has about 10million people not giving a rats about this birthday!

Technically Ghosts is sorta alive in two ways:

1) Blizzard are going to be releasing a mini campaign just focusing on Nova.

2) Once the campaign is released, all Nova and background assets involved in those missions will become available to the SCII map editor. This means that anyone can create the Ghosts game thatw as teased years ago just like how some fans are managing to recreate Warcraft using SCII's engine and assets.

Still millions more enjoying Diablo III, heroes of the storm, Hearthstone and then the Overwatch Beta seem to care =P.

4 reply (ers) in 9 hours would be a pretty bad turn out for someones 25th birthday party :D