Blizzard Entertainment
On November 23, 2004, Blizzard released "World of Warcraft", a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. "World of Warcraft" is the fourth released game set in the fantasy "Warcraft" universe, which was first introduced by "" in 1994. Blizzard announced "World of Warcraft" on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the "Warcraft" franchise.
Warcraft: Orcs &amp; Humans
While later "...craft" games were famous for complex stories presented lavishly, the first installment of the series had no script and was improvised in the recording studio by producer Bill Roper. The contract composer Gregory Alper wrote music that Blizzard staff found reminiscent of Holst's "The Planets". Demos in summer 1994 whetted appetites for the completed game, released for MS-DOS in November 1994 and for the Macintosh in 1996. The game was published by Blizzard in North America and by Interplay Entertainment in Europe, and Sold-Out Software republished the MS-DOS version in March 2002.