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2008 in video gaming
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Notable events of 2008 in video gaming.
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- May 28: Ubisoft announces Beyond Good & Evil 2 during the end of Ubidays at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France, along with a teaser trailer featuring the game's first-two main characters: Pey'j and (possibly, though never focused clearly) Jade.
Notable releasesEdit
- April 29 - Grand Theft Auto IV was released simultaneously for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A few Hollywood producers have set precedent by beginning to browse video game release dates to check for conflicts due to Grand Theft Auto IV's potential harm to the May 2 2008 release of Iron Man.[1] The PS3 and Xbox 360 version has taken the second and fourth positions of Game Rankings' best-rated games of all time, respectively;[2] as well as being the first console game since 1999 to receive a perfect rating from IGN,[3] and the first title to receive a perfect rating from GameSpot since 2001.[4]
BusinessEdit
- July 15 to July 17 - E3 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, United States.
- July 31 to August 3 - QuakeCon 2008 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
- December 1 - National Amusements' Sumner Redstone sells his controlling stake in Midway Games to private investor Mark Thomas, for $100,000 ($0.0012 a share), and assumes $70 million of senior secured and unsecured debt.[5]
- December 9 - Infogrames, Atari's parent company, purchases Cryptic Studios.[6]
Open to the publicEdit
- August 21 to August 24 - Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.
- October 3 to October 5 - E for All at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
- October 9 to October 12 - Tokyo Game Show at the Makuhari Messe International Convention in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan.[7]
- October 9 to October 12 - Games Convention Asia in Singapore.
- October 10 to October 11 - Blizzcon 2008 in Anaheim, California, U.S.A.
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