![]() ![]() April 6 – Midway Games acquires Surreal Software.March – Microsoft announces XNA the successor of DirectX as the default API for "Longhorn", and Xenon.February – Electronic Arts consolidates, rolls most of Maxis and all of Origin Systems into its Redwood Shores, California HQ.December 12 – Sony launches the PlayStation Portable in Japan, and was soon released in other markets in 2005.November 21 – Nintendo launches its Nintendo DS handheld in the United States with the enhanced remake Super Mario 64 DS.November 17 – Atari Releases the Atari Flashback.November 5 – Nobuo Uematsu resigns from Square Enix and becomes a freelancer, starting his own business, called Smile Please Co., Ltd.November – Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 are officially released on PC around the world, bringing in a new era for the first-person shooter genre of video games, with advanced graphics & physics.It is the last major title to be released for the original PlayStation console. October 12 – EA Sports launches the multi-format FIFA Football 2005.The game became id's best selling game to date. ![]() August 3 – Doom 3 is released, restarting the breakthrough franchise, and featured complex graphics features such as unified lighting and shadowing, real-time fully dynamic per-pixel lighting and stencil shadowing.July – IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) hosts 5th annual Executive Summit.May 11–13 – The 10th annual E3 is held in Los Angeles, California, United States.May 11 – Nintendo officially announces its "Revolution" (later named Wii) console.March 22–26 – Game Developers Conference hosts 4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and Gama Network's 6th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF).March 4 – Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards inducts Peter Molyneux into the AIAS Hall of Fame.February 26 – Castle Wolfenstein creator Silas Warner dies at age 54.January 20 – Wired's Vaporware Awards gives its first "Lifetime Achievement Award" to recurring winner Duke Nukem Forever.The year's most critically acclaimed titles were Dragon Quest VIII and Gran Turismo 4 in Japan, and Half-Life 2 and San Andreas in the West. The year's best-selling video game was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The year has been retrospectively considered one of the best and most important in video game history due to the release of numerous critically acclaimed, commercially successful and influential titles across all platforms and genres at the time. The Nintendo DS was also launched that year. New intellectual properties included Fable, Far Cry, FlatOut, Killzone, Katamari Damacy, Monster Hunter, N, Red Dead Revolver, SingStar, and Sacred. 2004 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Doom 3, Dragon Quest VIII, Gran Turismo 4, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ninja Gaiden, Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen/ Emerald, Everybody's Golf 4 ( Hot Shots Golf Fore!), Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, and World of Warcraft. ![]()
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