It began with three UCLA graduates, $20,000 and a 600-square-foot office in Irvine. Three young entrepreneurs started working on video games just months after receiving their undergraduate degrees from UCLA using computers brought from home, and even some borrowed equipment. Silicon & Synapse, the small company Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce started nearly 20 years ago, is now Blizzard Entertainment. Read more...

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Initially developed in 1996, Battle.net is an online game service that allows users to connect via Blizzard games. Users can purchase and download games and access their respective accounts from different computers without losing progress. (Photo courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment)

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