Samstag, 8. Februar 2014

IE #15 and Blizzard

As part of my Blizzard Entertainment research I came across the Interactive Entertainment disc magazine that had some Blizzard articles back in 1994 and 1995. On issue #15 from mit 1995, there was Blizzard company special, featuring interviews with some of Blizzard's people of these days. On other IE issues, there were a handful of new Blizzard videos, too, like Pax Imperia 2 previews, but these were usually already available online for quite some time.

These are the Blizzard videos from IE #15 plus some little commentary by me:

General info about Blizzard's announcements at and before E3 1995:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOT0buXeyg

Blizzard company history, being the first solid source for IDS being the predecessor of Blizzard. Another (but more loose) source is a stock split press release by Davidson. Also featured is Mike Morhaime's story of how he and Allen (or Ayman) first met.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxMq9V_cFu0

Blizzard's philosophy (as they still tell today and actually already told to journalists in 1994):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rUTuIApJfk

Shattered Nations preview that finally tells us that it is similar to Civ and has some elements that we would later also see in Pax 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf8I9mfxEfE

Pax 2 preview with some rare screenshots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YnLcqibkso

Pax 2 preview with some general information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdEtBMqpe5g

Long Warcraft 2 preview that sums up the development of the game and its features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms9ZgZsmGWc

Diablo preview that basically explains the same things that are already known from Blizdemos and the announcement press release:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIswF7oZvRw

2 Kommentare:

  1. Hmm, i'm looking in catalog
    http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.php?n=-8&mag=ie

    So this is from June 1995 issue (so it has to be #11), or from Interactive Entertainment #15 (which dated 09/1995)?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIswF7oZvRw

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    1. You are mixing up canonical date and timestamp. Magazines usually have a timestamp that is 2 months before the date wrtten on their cover. IE does not have an official canonical date, so when setting up the catalog, I guessed dates that make it consistent with the publication cycle of other magazines. For the title of the video however I chose to write the timestamp (note that I wrote the name of the month instead of a number!), so it is easier to get it right on a calendar.

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