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TIL Silicon & Synapse, Inc was founded on February 8, 1991, but changed their name to Chaos Studios, Inc. in 1993 because of confusion with breast implants. The company changed the name again in 1994 because of Chaos Technologies and they became Blizzard Entertainment because it passed a name check.

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