silicon-and-synapse posts

Founded back in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, the development team that later changed its name to Blizzard Entertainment has become one of the biggest and most influential PC game developers of all time. The company helped to popularize the RTS genre with its WarCraft and StarCraft series, made playing RPGs cool again with the Diablo series and exploded the MMO genre with World of Warcraft.

Now there's word that Blizzard is going to come out with a 20th anniversary book in 2011 to celebrate its long legacy. The book was revealed this past weekend by its author Jeff Green, formerly the editor-in-chief of the late and very much lamented PC gaming magazine Computer Gaming World (which switched its name to Games For Windows Magazine for its last few issues). Green took on gigs at Electronic Arts following the magazine's cancellation in 2008 but has now left EA and is now working on the Blizzard book along with writing gigs at "all of your favorite game websites and magazines."