The Great Blizzard of 1888 The statue of George Washington on Wall Street, covered in snow in the Great Blizzard of 1888. (Image credit: Library of Congress) More than 400 people in the Northeast died during the Great Blizzard, the worst death toll in United States history for a winter st...
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In 2004, with 500 employees and 40 servers, Blizzard prepared for a nice, smooth launch of their fantasy MMO World of Warcraft. Slight problem: they somehow completely misjudged the teeming hordes of excited gamers dying to play. The servers couldn't even come close to handling them. Players...
But hands-on involvement from Blizzard (which produced the film with Legendary Pictures) and a big production budget weren't enough to make a good movie; critics warned of a dour, incoherent, and tedious slog. And despite becoming the highest-grossing videogame movie in history at the time of...
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