Blizzard Entertainment and Westwood Studios dominated the realtime strategy genre from 1992 through the turn of the millennium. The battle between them swiftly improved the genre...but only one would survive the conflict.


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Images:
Patrick Wyatt photo: https://undeadlabs.com/2014/01/news/b...
Allen Adham photo: https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/...

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