2004 in video gaming


2004 in video gaming - Definition

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1 Events

Events

January 20 - Wired's Vaporware Awards gives its first "Lifetime Achievement Award" to recurring winnner Duke Nukem Forever.
March 4 - Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; inducts Peter Molyneux into the AIAS Hall of Fame
March 22-26 - Game Developers Conference hosts 4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and Gama Network's 6th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF)
November 5 - Nobuo Uematsu resigns from Square Enix and becomes a freelancer, starting his own business, called Smile Please.

August 3 - id Software releases Doom 3 after four years of development
September 9 - Pok�mon FireRed and Pok�mon LeafGreen are released in the US with a free wireless adapter (the release in many US locations was 3 days later)
September 21 - Star Wars Battlefront (Pandemic Studios/LucasArts)
October 29 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North)
November 9 - Microsoft releases Halo 2 and takes in $125 million USD in one of the biggest commercial entertainment opening days ever
November 15 - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Retro Studios)
November 16 - Valve Software releases Half-Life 2 after five years of development
November 21 - Nintendo launches its DS handheld in the US
November 23 - Blizzard Entertainment releases World of Warcraft in North America, Australia and New Zealand. The game sells over 240,000 copies in its first day, the highest ever total for a PC game.

January 12 - Ubisoft acquires Tiwak
February - EA consolidates, rolls most of Maxis and all of Origin Systems into its Redwood Shores, California HQ
April 6 - Midway Games acquires Surreal Software
May - Sammy Corporation buys a controlling share in Sega Corporation at a cost of $1.1 billion creating the new company, "Sega Sammy Holdings Inc", one of the biggest gaming companies in the world.
July - Square Enix restructures executive branches around the world.
August 30 - Acclaim declares bankruptcy and closes its doors
October 11 - Midway Games acquires Inevitable Entertainment and renames it Midway Studios Austin.
November 30 - Midway Games acquires developer Paradox Development.
December 13 - Electronic Arts purchases a 5-year exclusive agreement for the rights to the NFL, which includes NFL teams, stadiums and players for use in EA's football videogames.
December 20 - Electronic Arts purchases 20% stake in Ubisoft. The purchase at the time was considered "hostile", by Ubisoft.

The dominant consoles in 2004 are:

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