2006 in video gaming
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January 30, 2006 — A mandatory update for Xbox Live on the Pirates of the Burning Sea CD Key Xbox 360 was released. Microsoft claimed the DAOC Plat update was for bugfixes and improvements. Members of the Gaia Gold modding community claim that “the true purpose of this update was to halt the Cheap Guild Wars Gold progress of the Cheap EVE ISK modding community”. (Gamasutra)
Saints Row
Tetris DS
Madden NFL 07
January 26, 2006 — Microsoft announces $293 million losses in its Home and Entertainment division, record revenues overall. (Gamasutra)
November 15 Xiaolin Showdown Xbox
January 26, 2006 — Konami Corp. announces the Second Life Linden list of titles it expects to ship in 2006, ranging from Beatmania to Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, and covering multiple platforms. (TeamXbox)
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
XB Xbox
June 12 Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War PC
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin NDS
Resistance: Fall of Man PS3
March 7 Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai PSP
January 26, 2006 — Nintendo reports declining Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance sales but increased profits: Yen92.2 billion. (GameCpot)
Madden NFL 07
Madden NFL 07
PS2 PlayStation 2
November 6 Lumines II PSP
January 31, 2006 — Blizzard Entertainment responds to the Tibia Gold GLBT debate happening in World of Warcraft. the Buy RO Zeny company stated: “To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the Lineage 2 Adena game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast.”(Edge)
2 PlayStation 2 6 million
July 5 the Buy Guild Wars Gold Lord of the 9 Dragons Rings: the Ragnarok Zeny Battle for Middle-earth II Xbox 360
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Sony’s PlayStation Portable
The Movies: Stunts & Effects PC
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent Xbox 360
Platform key
Guitar Hero II PS2
January 27, 2006 — Players of the Vanguard-SOH Gold Horde clan from World of Warcraft start the SilkRoad Gold “Gamers Against No Kash” charity, to pay the Perfect World Silver subscription fees for valuable players strapped for cash. (Gameshout)
August 15 Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII PS2
Madden NFL 07
GBA Game Boy Advance
MLB 06: the CDKey Show
Nintendo DS / Nintendo DS Lite
Mario Hoops 3-on-3
Kingdom Hearts II (Australia, Europe) PS2
May 15 New Super Mario Bros. NDS
NCAA Football 07
February 27 Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords PC
June 21 Tomb Raider: Legend PSP
Left Behind: Eternal Forces PC
Lost Magic NDS
Call of Duty 3
Sid Meier’s Railroads! (North America) PC
Need for Speed: Carbon
Xiaolin Showdown PS2, PSP
Civilization IV
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 PS3
June 26 Titan Quest PC
PS3 PlayStation 3
January 31, 2006 — CNET reports that Cisco Systems might be interested in buying Nintendo. (CNET), (GameDaily.biz)
April 20 Mother 3 GBA
Sonic Riders GCN, PS2, Xbox
Major League Baseball 2K6
Tomb Raider: Legend GBA, GCN, NDS
Battlefield 2142 PC
Wii Sports (America) Wii
[edit]Notable releases
November 21 the Buy EQ2 Plat Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Maple Mesos Nine PC
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EverQuest: the Seal Cegel Serpent’s Spine PC
LEGO Star Wars II: the L2 Adena Original Trilogy NDS, GCN, PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360
Gears of War Xbox 360
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Video game console sales of 2007 in Europe[2][3]
The Sims 2
The Godfather: the Cheap Tabula Rasa Credits Game
November 28 the War Online Gold Rise of the Final Fantasy 11 CD Key Witch-king PC
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
April 17 Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day NDS
Rayman Raving Rabbids (America) Wii
January 31, 2006 — Sony announces that ten servers will be merged with ten others on Everquest 2. Players are cautiously optimistic. (Sony), (Darniaq)
Wii Wii
PS1 PlayStation
Sonic Riders
Rampage: Total Destruction
March 26 Act of War: High Treason PC
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Fight Night Round 3
Naruto: Clash of Ninja
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
Wii Sports’
Release Date Title Systems
Call of Duty 3 (America) Wii
March 21 the Led Flashlights Godfather: the Gaia Online Gold Game PC, PS2, Xbox
January 9, 2006 — Take-Two Interactive acquires Irrational Games. (Shacknews)
Sonic the KAL Online Geon Hedgehog Xbox 360
November 19 Wii (America)
Dead Rising
June 6 Battlefield 2: Armored Fury PC
[edit]Business
April 24 Black & White 2 - Battle of the RF Gold Gods PC
November 30 Final Fantasy VI Advance (Japan) GBA
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault PS2
October 31 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories PSP
Neverwinter Nights 2 PC
LEGO Star Wars II: the Star Wars Galaxies Game Card Original Trilogy
Medieval 2: Total War PC
WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 PS2, Xbox 360
The Sims 2: Open for Business
NBA 07
April 28 Guild Wars: Factions PC
Kingdom Hearts II
January 27, 2006 — the World of Warcraft Europe Gold PlayStation Portable 2.01-2.50 firmware versions, previously considered unhackable, are hacked by Fanjita. (PSP Updates)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (America) Wii
Place Console Units sold
X360 Xbox 360
Excite Truck
New Super Mario Bros.
December 13 the Buy Last Chaos Gold Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess GCN
September 5 LocoRoco PSP
Final Fantasy XI Xbox 360
[edit]Video game consoles
Guild Wars Factions
4 Xbox 360 2 million
X-Men: the Cheap Guild Wars Gold Official Game Xbox 360, PS2, PC, Xbox, NDS, GCN, GBA
Cars PS2, Xbox, GCN, PSP, NDS, PC
March 2 the Buy WOW Gold Lord of the World of Warcraft Gold Rings: the Final Fantasy XI Gil Battle for Middle-earth II PC
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 PSP
Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360
[edit]Video game sales
Ten best-selling Xbox 360 games of 2006:[5]
Saints Row Xbox 360
August 1 Flatout 2 (USA) PC
July 24 CivCity: Rome PC
September 28 Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Japan) NDS
Fight Night Round 3
September 18 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team NDS
Ten best-selling GameCube games of 2006:[6]
Bully PS2
February 28 Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach PC
November 17 PlayStation 3
January 30, 2006 — Nintendo released a statement regarding the Dofus Kama Red Tulip phenomenon on Animal Crossing: Wild World, stating “We have isolated the Cheap EQ Plat problem and determined that there was a temporary error with the City of Villains Infamy upload tool when this letter was posted”. Earlier, there had been speculation that the Cheap Archlord Gold tulips were a result of black hat hackers. (Gamasutra)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade PC
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Call of Duty 3
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance PS3
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate PC
Red Steel
Scarface: the PotBS Gold World is Yours
February 14 Empire Earth II: the LOTRO Gold Art of Supremacy PC
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent PC
March 28 Kingdom Hearts II PS2
Big Brain Academy
September 25 Baten Kaitos Origins (North America) GCN
Need for Speed: Carbon GCN, PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
The Sims 2: Pets PC
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
October 9 Mortal Kombat: Armageddon PS2, Xbox
November 13 EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer PC
Star Trek: Legacy PC
September 12 Joint Task Force PC
Prey PC, Xbox 360
October 26 Guild Wars Nightfall PC
January 31, 2006 — StarForce, a DRM maker for computer games, threatens to sue popular weblog Boing Boing for criticising its products. (Gamasutra), (Boing Boing)
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January 26, 2006 — Nintendo announces its newly redesigned handheld, the Buy DAOC Plat Nintendo DS Lite. the Lord of the Rings Online Gold new model is lighter, smaller, has configurable brightness and features an improved user interface. (Nintendo) (GameSpot)
January 31, 2006 — Sony is reportedly building a Xbox Live-killer for the Buy RO Zeny PlayStation 3. (Joystiq)
Ten best-selling PC games of 2006:[1]
Superman Returns: the SilkRoad Gold Videogame GCN, PS2, Xbox 360, NDS
January 27, 2006 — Microsoft lowers its estimate of Xbox 360 sales in its first 90 days from 2.75-3.0 million units to 2.5 million due to supply shortage. the Led Flashlight yearly estimate (4.5 to 5.5 million) is unchanged since Microsoft plans to increase its console production with the Second Life Linden help of a new manufacturer, Celestica. (TeamXbox) Meanwhile, Microsoft postpones the RS Gold Australian 360 launch from March 2 to March 23, 2006 due to a “short term manufacturing challenge” . (Gamasutra)
MVP 06: NCAA Baseball
August 29 Enchanted Arms Xbox 360
May 10 SiN Episodes: Emergence PC
LEGO Star Wars II: the Lord of the Rings Online Gold Original Trilogy
November 14 Final Fantasy III NDS
Sonic the Buy DAOC Plat Hedgehog Genesis GBA
Ten best-selling Xbox games of 2006:[4]
November 20 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas Xbox 360
March 31 Animal Crossing: Wild World (Europe) NDS
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance GBA, PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
February 18 Star Wars: Empire at War PC
January 30, 2006 — Shares of Take-Two Interactive, the The Matrix Online CD Key controversial creator of the 9 Dragons Grand Theft Auto series, rose Monday after news that the Buy Guild Wars Gold company was in takeover talks with an unnamed buyer. (Yahoo), (Marketwatch), (TTWO Stock Chart)
5 Wii 0.7 million
Pokémon Ranger
Based on estimates from Electronic Arts.
Additionally, the EQ Gold Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii were released on November 11 and November 19, respectively.
F.E.A.R. Extraction Point PC
November 7 Call of Duty 3 PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
Call of Duty 3
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
The Sims 2: Nightlife
Final Fantasy XII
Madden NFL 07
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World PC
Ten best-selling Wii games of 2006:[7]
GCN Nintendo GameCube
Ridge Racer 7
April 13 Auto Assault PC
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent GCN, PS2, Xbox
Ten best-selling DS games of 2006:[8]
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2
January 26, 2006 — Public schools in West Virginia will add Dance Dance Revolution by Konami to their curriculum, in an effort to combat obesity. (Reuters) (GameSpot)
Ridge Racer 7 PS3
August 22 King of Fighters PS2
June 1 Half-Life 2: Episode One PC
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra PS2
See February 2006 in video gaming, March 2006 in video gaming
Driver: Parallel Lines
Guitar Hero II
Tony Hawk’s Project 8
Metroid Prime Hunters
Guitar Hero
June 13 Armored Core: Last Raven (USA) PS2
[edit]Trends
March 15 Battlefield 2: Euro Force PC
Over the DAOC Gold Hedge
Nintendogs
October 30 Pokemon Ranger (North America) NDS
September 29 DEFCON (Europe) PC
January 27, 2006 — the Fiesta Online Silver Nintendo DS returns to the WOW EU Gold top of the Star Wars Galaxies Credits weekly Japanese charts, with 64,515 units sold compared to 38,271 for the Sword of the New World Gold PlayStation Portable. the Sword of the New World Gold PlayStation 2 is third with 26,135 units sold, while the Buy Guild Wars Gold Xbox 360 continues to sell poorly (just 3,616, less than the Cheap Lineage 2 Adena GameCube). the WOW Gold five best-selling games were Brain Training for Adults 2, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Super Mario Strikers, Brain Training for Adults and Mario Kart DS, all published by Nintendo. (Media Create)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (America) Wii
NCAA Football 07
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories PS2
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent
September 26 Caesar IV PC
Red Steel (America) Wii
Ten best-selling PS2 games of 2006:[2]
GB Game Boy
July – ECA (Entertainment Consumers Association) formed.
January 27, 2006 — Microsoft of Japan made a statement to Japanese game magazine Famitsu regarding the Hellgate London CD Key Xbox 360 launch. “It was a lot more difficult than we had imagined. We couldn’t prepare the Cabal ALZ launch titles that we had promised, and it made an impact,” said Microsoft of Japan Xbox chief of operations Yoshihiro Maruyama. At the Tales of Pirates Gold launch of the Cheap Dofus Kamas first Xbox in Japan, more units were sold in three days than have been sold of the 2 Moons Dil Xbox 360 in one month. (Gamasutra)
February 21 EverQuest II: Kingdom of Sky PC
May - IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) successfully merged with VSDA (Video Software Dealers Association) to form combined organization EMA (Entertainment Merchants Association)
July 20 AFL Premiership 2006 PS2
Tetris DS NDS
October 24 Dark Messiah of Might and Magic PC
Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan PC, PS2
Zoo Tycoon 2
May 30 Hitman: Blood Money Xbox 360, PC, PS2, Xbox
NBA 2K7
Super Princess Peach
DC Dreamcast
Madden NFL 07
May 9 Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends PC
Sony PlayStation 2
September 19 ĹŚkami PS2
3 PlayStation Portable 4 million
March 17 24: the Tabula Rasa Credits Game
April 11 Tomb Raider: Legend PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360
Ten best-selling PS3 games of 2006:[3]
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Star Wars: Empire at War
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Buy COV Infamy Minis NDS
[edit]Handheld game consoles
The Godfather: the Buy 9 Dragons Gold Game PSP, Xbox 360
NCAA Football 07
Civilization IV: Warlords PC
Cars
March 20 Metroid Prime Hunters NDS
Final Fantasy XII (United States) PS2
Age of Empires III
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team GBA
April 25 Ace Combat Zero: the EVE Time Card Belkan War PS2
July 11 Chromehounds Xbox 360
Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption PC
Call of Duty 3 PS3
Resistance: Fall of Man
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos PC
Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance SP / Game Boy Micro
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent Wii
Xiaolin Showdown NDS
May 23 Jaws: Unleashed PC, Xbox, PS2
June 29 Panzer Command PC
WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 PSP
PSP PlayStation Portable
[edit]Europe
Dreamfall: the Xenon Flashlight Longest Journey PC
Nintendo GameCube
October 18 Football Manager 2007 PC, Mac
December 29 Ape Escape: Million Monkeys PS2
August 28 Star Fox Command NDS
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (America) Wii
LEGO Star Wars II: the RO Zeny Original Trilogy
Yoshi’s Island DS NDS
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (America) Wii
January 27, 2006 — the 9Dragons Gold Los Angeles attorney’s office sues Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive over the Rasa Credits Hot Coffee mod. (Gamasutra)
December 5 Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops PSP
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast Xbox, PS2, PSP
Fight Night Round 3
October – ECA (Entertainment Consumers Association) soft-launched.
North American release dates:
April 18 Dreamfall: the Buy KAL Geons Longest Journey Xbox
Mac Apple Macintosh personal computer
Rockstar Games: Table Tennis Xbox 360
Teen Titans
PS2
GBC Game Boy Color
Excite Truck (America) Wii
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat Xbox 360
Win Windows-based personal computer
Super Monkey Ball Adventure (USA) GCN, PS2, PSP
October 17 Age of Empires III: the SilkRoad Online Gold War Chiefs PC
The Sims 2: Open for Business PC
NDS Nintendo DS
1 Nintendo DS 6.4 million
September 13 Company of Heroes PC
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
Ninety-Nine Nights Xbox 360
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PC, Xbox 360
January 26, 2006 — Sony reports that strong sales of the DDO Gold PlayStation Portable helped the Rappelz Rupees company make a profit of 70 billion yen, the GuildWars Gold first time in 11 years that the Cheap WOW Gold company has managed to avoid an annual loss. (Herald Tribune) (Financial Times)
January 5, 2006 — Vivendi Universal Games acquires High Moon Studios (formerly Sammy Studios, Inc), which gained independence from Sammy in 2005. (Prnewswire)
Gears of War
Killzone: Liberation PSP
May 16 Heroes of Might and Magic V PC
August 8 Dead Rising Xbox 360
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- Utilities, modifications and conversions This section does not cite any references or sources. Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (February 2008) Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness was an unusual game for the time because a large number of third-party utilities were written for it. Among the first things, Daniel Lemberg reverse-engineered the Warcraft II map file (*.pud) format and created the first third-party map editor, War2xEd, which could do numerous things the bundled map editor could not do, such as editing unit attributes. Although Lemberg did not make the source code for War2xEd public, he did publish the complete Warcraft II map file format, which led to a wealth of new tools, including a Macintosh version of the tool called PudMaster. More importantly, Blizzard began to use War2xEd internally, and it influenced them to bundle a feature-rich editor with their immensely popular game StarCraft. the next important breakthrough came when Alexander Cech and Lemberg broke the encryption used in the base game data files. Cech went on to create a program called Wardraft, which allowed users to browse and modify the contents of the game data files, allowing comprehensive modifications. the spawn of extensive alterations became known as “Total Conversions”, and a great many projects were in motion for a good long while. Some of the more prominent were “DeathCraft: Twilight of Demons” by Dirk “The Guardian” by Richartz, “War of the Ring” by Gurthaur, “Editor’s Total Conversion” by Fronzel Neekburn and the whole of the Warclan, “Elfcraft” by Ace Calhoon, and the noteworthy “Rituals of Rebirth” spearheaded by Kalindor, Kosmous, and Commoner. [edit]Special features Humorous unit quotes are a feature of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, following the tradition of the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. If a single unit is clicked on several times in a row, his or her voice samples change from regular to longer, emotional ones. He or she may start getting angry at the player, or quote lines in reference to movies or games. For example, a footman would say, “don’t you have a kingdom to run?” or “are you still touching me?” These phrases differed in the game’s demo for the Footman and Grunt units, and were mostly indignations to purchase the full version. Clicking on a non-playable critter such as a sheep enough times causes it to blow up. If the disk for Beyond the Dark Portal is inserted into a CD player, the orchestrated music from the game can be played. In addition, there is a bonus 13th track called “I’m a Medieval Man” which features remixed sound bites from the first game. the track is also available in-game by typing “disco” as a cheat. this however gives you the status cheater when you finish that mission. “Medieval Man” is also a cheat code in StarCraft to obtain all unit upgrades for free or in Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness to play the song as background music. Also, in StarCraft, if one clicks on an observer while playing as the Protoss, a clip of the song will be played. the song is also a reference to the Command & Conquer song “Mechanical Man”.[citation needed] the script that was used in the book positioned in the background screen while the player was informed about mission objectives is Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, but the language in which it is written is English. the text contains a small section of a game story text, mentioning how the Orcish hordes entered the forests of Lordaeron. Warcraft II’s soundtrack has been released in MP3 format by Blizzard[2] [edit]Online play Screen shot of game play.Although the Battle.net Edition wasn’t released until 1999, online play was widespread from the game’s release using IPX Emulators such as Kali. Warcraft II (along with Command & Conquer) was one of the first Real-time strategy games to be played widely online, and spawned several leagues, including the International Warcraft League (IWL) and singles and teams ladders on Case’s Ladder. the Mac release allowed multiplayer games over TCP/IP. the IRC channel MacWarCraft served as a gathering place for online play, before Battle.net was created. There was also a popular league created by the Macintosh community, that provided a ranking system and helped players find opponents, called MaG League (short for Macintosh Gaming League). When the Battle.net edition was released, a new meter of play speeds was added, including a turbo-like speed called “Fastest” that became popular with some players, while traditional players gamed on “Even Faster” speed. Despite the old age of the game, play continues on Battle.net today, along with a significant community on server.war2.ru servers. For LAN (home) multi play, tools such as DOSBox can be used to emulate IPX or direct serial connections over TCP/IP. [edit]Ports Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal were released together for Sega Saturn and PlayStation under the title Warcraft II: the Dark Saga in 1997 by Electronic Arts. There was also a reverse engineered free software game engine called Freecraft, which allowed users to import the actual game data from Warcraft II and play the game on different platforms and with additional features like queuing unit production, finding idle workers, an improved AI and network connectivity for up to 16 players. In addition to being compatible with Warcraft II, it could also be used with a set of artwork and scenarios made by the Freecraft Media Project (FcMP). Although the actual Freecraft program and FcMP used no art or code from Warcraft II, the project received a threatening cease-and-desist letter from Blizzard, apparently due to similarity to the Warcraft trademarks. Not willing to fight Blizzard, the maintainers canceled the whole project, later rekindling it under the name of Stratagus. By using this game engine through Wargus, the game is also playable on BSD, Linux and Mac OS X.
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