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** ''World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor'' (2014)
** ''World of Warcraft: Legion (2016)
** ''World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth'' (2018)
* ''[[StarCraft II]] (2010)
** ''[[StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty]]'' (2010)
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** ''[[StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void]]'' (2015)
* ''[[Diablo III]]'' (2012)
** ''Diablo III: Reaper of Souls'' (2014)
* ''[[Hearthstone]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Diablo III]]: Reaper of Souls'' (2014)
* ''[[Overwatch]]'' (2016)
** ''[[Overwatch 2]]'' (2020)
* ''[[StarCraft]]: Remastered (2017)<ref>HD re-release of the original Starcraft.</ref>
* ''[[Diablo Immortal]]'' (2018) - Blizzard's first Diablo mobile game.
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** The main villain of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' usually does lose in the end, though.
*** Not quite. Various [[The Dragon|threats to all life]] have been defeated so far, but there is always a [[Bigger Bad]], and [[The Man Behind the Man|the being that has created (directly or otherwise)]] every fault in Azeroth's history is [[Word of God|"still out there somewhere, in the Twisting Nether"]].
* [[Blizzard Battle.Net]]: Their digital client launcher and the oldest out of all the digital management store/launchers.
* [[Cutscene]] - While the games themselves are designed to work on weaker PCs, the cinematics are always state of the art.
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]] - '''All of them'''. Mainly because...
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* [[Large Ham]] - Blizzard games universally have the most flat out over-the-top voice acting you will find in a video game, or any other medium, really.
* [[Norse Mythology]] - A prominent influence in several of their games.
* [[No Export for You]]|[[Killer App]]: If one wants to play "[[Heroes of the Storm]]", "[[Overwatch]]", or "[[Hearthstone]]" the gamer needs to download and install the Battle.Net launcher.
** Good thing the games are worth it.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]] - ''Diablo'' has specifically been described as "what happens when you give the RPG genre from the Japanese into the hands of meat-eating Americans". The other franchises show symptoms too.
* [[Schedule Slip]] - The Blizzard maxim for games is: "It's done when it's done." Most of the time it works out.