Book Description

Since Blizzard Entertainment established the Warcraft® series in 1994 with Warcraft: Orcs & HumansTM, the fantasy world of Azeroth has played home to multiple award-winning and bestselling real-time strategy games, novels, comic books, and toys-as well as the world's most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft®. This collection of iconic images by Blizzard Entertainment artists showcases the lush landscapes, noble heroes, and nefarious villains that have captivated millions of players around the globe. Whether players fight for the Alliance or the Horde, Azeroth serves as the shared stage for their adventures. This set of thirty-two high-quality posters brings that vibrant and dynamic world into stunning focus and serves as a vivid reminder of players' epic experiences there.

About the Author

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce, and is currently a subsidiary of American company Activision Blizzard. Based in Irvine, California, the company originally concentrated primarily on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with the development of games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In 1994 the company became Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. before being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates and later by Vivendi. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Blizzard went on to create several successful video games, including the Warcraft sequels, StarCraft, and Diablo series, and the MMORPG World of Warcraft. Their most recent projects include Diablo III, World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, and the first expansion of StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm.