query: developer world of warcraft: the burning crusade
supports: Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of five core games: "", "", "", "World of Warcraft", and "". The first three of these core games are in the real-time strategy genre, where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or a computer-controlled enemy. The fourth and best-selling title of the franchise is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), where players control their character and interact with each other in a virtual world. The most recent title is "Hearthstone", a digital collectible card game. World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy "Warcraft" universe, which was first introduced by "" in 1994. "World of Warcraft" takes place within the "Warcraft" world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous "Warcraft" release, "." Blizzard Entertainment announced "World of Warcraft" on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the "Warcraft" franchise. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and is currently a subsidiary of American company Activision Blizzard. The company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce, and Allen Adham. The company originally concentrated primarily on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with the development of games like "Rock n' Roll Racing" and "The Lost Vikings". In 1994 the company became Chaos Studios, then Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates. Charles de Brosses, comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon, seigneur de Vezins et de Prevessin (7 February 1709  7 May 1777), was a French writer of the 18th century. World of Warcraft : The Burning Crusade is the first expansion pack for the MMORPG World of Warcraft . It was released on January 15 , 2007 at midnight in Europe and North America , selling nearly 2.4 million copies on release day alone and making it the fastest - selling PC game in those regions . It was released on January 17 , 2007 in Australia and New Zealand ; in total , approximately 3.53 million copies were sold across these territories in the first month of release , including 1.9 million in North America , over 100,000 copies in Australasia , and nearly 1.6 million in Europe . It was also released in Singapore , Thailand , and Malaysia on January 15 , 2007 . It was later released in South Korea on February 1 , 2007 ; in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau on April 30 , 2007 . The game was released in China on September 6 , 2007 . Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French "Australasie") in "Histoire des navigations aux terres australes" (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India. Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction.
candidates: activision blizzard entertainment creatures davidson & associates french
answer: blizzard entertainment