Shortly thereafter, Blizzard released Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. In 1993, the company became Chaos Studios, Inc., and eventually Blizzard Entertainment after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates. The company originally concentrated on the creation of game ports for other studios' games before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.
