2004 in video gaming
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March β Microsoft announces XNA the AO Credits successor of DirectX as the GW Gold default API for Windows Vista and Xenon.
May 6 β Samurai Warriors (PS2)
March 23 β Sonic Heroes (GC, PS2, Xbox)
October 4 β Mortal Kombat: Deception (PS2, Xbox)
December 8 β the Pirates of the Burning Sea Gold Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC)
November 30 β Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (GC, PC, PS2, Xbox)
April 6 β Midway Games acquires Surreal Software
September 7 β Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2) (Xbox)
December 6 β Knights of the IMVU Credits Old Republic II: the Buy Tales of Pirates Gold Sith Lords (Xbox)
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November 30 β Midway Games acquires developer Paradox Development.
August 30 β Acclaim declares bankruptcy and closes its doors
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March 9 β Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword (PC)
October 26 β Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (PC)
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Sony released an internal hard drive for the Boards PlayStation 2 on March 23
September 14 β Fable (Xbox)
September 21 β Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia (PC, PS2)
February 9 β EverQuest: Gates of Discord (PC)
9 Metal Gear Solid 3 PS2 Konami
September 28 β Myst IV: Revelation (PC)
July - IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) hosts 5th annual Executive Summit
October 29 β Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
October 12 β EA Sports launches “FIFA Soccer 2005″. It’s officially the Game Time Cards last game in the Lineage I Adena history of PlayStation
GBA Game Boy Advance
November 5 β Nobuo Uematsu resigns from Square Enix and becomes a freelancer, starting his own business, called Smile Please Co., Ltd..
March 16 β Unreal Tournament 2004 (PC)
November 23 β World of Warcraft (PC)
December 13 β Electronic Arts purchases a 5-year exclusive agreement for the Buy Tales of Pirates Gold rights to the Cabal Online Alz NFL, which includes NFL teams, stadiums and players for use in EA’s football videogames.
February β EA consolidates, rolls most of Maxis and all of Origin Systems into its Redwood Shores, California HQ
September 14 β Call of Duty: United Offensive (PC)
April 27 β City of Heroes (PC)
The third major hardware revision of the Hero Online Gold PlayStation 2 (model number SCPH-70000) was released in Japan on November 1
September 7 β Silent Hill 4: the Lineage 1 Adena Room (PC, PS2, Xbox)
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September 20 β Def Jam: Fight for NY (GC, PS2, Xbox)
Mac Apple Macintosh personal computer
November 8 β EverQuest II (PC)
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November 3 β Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (PS2)
November 9 β Jak 3 (PS2)
April 20 β Hitman: Contracts (PC, PS2, Xbox)
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November 16 β Half-Life 2 (PC)
May 11 β Nintendo officially announces its “Revolution” (later named Wii) console.
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November 15 β Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GC)
Wii Wii
December 6 β the LOTRO CDKey Lord of the Last Chaos Gold Rings: the WOW EU Gold Battle for Middle-earth (PC)
November 9 β Halo 2 (Xbox)
November 17 β Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)
March 23 β Far Cry (PC)
November 21 β Nintendo launches its DS handheld in the 2Moons Gold US
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October 25 β Ace Combat 5: the Shadow of Legend Gold Unsung War (PS2)
April 27 β Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots (PC)
October 11 β Midway Games acquires Inevitable Entertainment and renames it Midway Studios Austin.
April 12 β Painkiller (PC)
September 22 β Katamari Damacy (PS2)
June 15 β Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (PC)
2 Halo 2 Xbox Microsoft
September 21 β Star Wars Battlefront (PS2, Xbox)
March 2 β Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)
October 25 β OutRun 2 (Xbox)
July 13 β Tales of Symphonia (GC)
5 Need For Speed: Underground 2 PS2 Electronic Arts
August 30 β Pikmin 2 (GC)
NDS Nintendo DS
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The dominant handheld systems in 2004 were:
Platform key
10 Halo: Combat Evolved Xbox Microsoft
March 23 β Final Fantasy XI (North America) (PS2)
September 7 β the Shadow of Legend Coin Sims 2
December 1 β Painkiller: Battle out of Hell (PC)
August 3 β Doom 3 (PC)
October 11 β Paper Mario: the ArchLord Gold Thousand-Year Door (GC)
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November 16 β Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (PS2)
1 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2 Take Two Interactive
September 13 β EverQuest: Omens of War (PC)
September 14 β the Buy Vanguard Gold Sims 2
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September 22 β Rome: Total War (PC)
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May β Sammy Corporation buys a controlling share in Sega Corporation at a cost of $1.1 billion creating the EVE ISK new company, “Sega Sammy Holdings Inc”, one of the Dungeons and Dragons Online Gold biggest gaming companies in the cdkey world.
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November 2 β Killzone (PS2)
December 20 β Electronic Arts purchases 20% stake in Ubisoft. the LOTRO EU Gold purchase at the Tabula Rasa Game Card time was considered “hostile”, by Ubisoft.
7 NBA Live 2005 PS2 Electronic Arts
November 16 β Joint Operations: Escalation (PC)
March 22-26 β Game Developers Conference hosts 4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and Gama Network’s 6th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF)
Top Grossing Video Games of 2004 Rank Title Platform Publisher
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March 4 β Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; inducts Peter Molyneux into the free forum AIAS Hall of Fame
October 4 β Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (GBA, GC, PC, PS2, Xbox)
In 2004, the Maple EU Mesos total U.S. sales of video game hardware, software and accessories was $9.9 billion compared with $10 billion in 2003. Total software sales rose 8 percent over the 9 Dragons Gold previous year to $6.2 billion. Additionally, sales of portable software titles exceeded $1 billion for the Guild War CD Key first time. Hardware sales were down 27 percent for the VC Coin year due in part to shortages during the Buy LOTRO Gold holiday season and price reductions from all systems.
November 2 β Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (PC)
PlayStation PortableAdditionally, Nokia released an updated version of their original N-Gage, called the Guild Gold N-Gage QD. Nintendo released the Rappelz Gold Nintendo DS on November 21 in the Cheap EQ2 Plat United States. In Japan Sony released the Tabula Rasa Credit PlayStation Portable on December 12.
October 26 β Dead or Alive Ultimate (Xbox)
November 16 β Vampire: the RF CDKey Masquerade - Bloodlines (PC)
September 20 β Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (PC)
June 1 β the With Your Destiny Gold Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Xbox)
May 25 β Thief: Deadly Shadows (PC, Xbox)
July β Square Enix restructures executive branches around the Buy Dofus Kamas world.
September 9 β PokΓ©mon FireRed and LeafGreen (GBA)
January 20 β Wired’s Vaporware Awards gives its first “Lifetime Achievement Award” to recurring winner Duke Nukem Forever.
January 12 β Ubisoft acquires Tiwak
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8 Spider-Man 2 PS2 Activision
November 15 β Need for Speed: Underground 2 (PS2)
March 14 β Battlefield Vietnam (PC)
November 21 β Super Mario 64 DS (NDS)
4 Madden 2005 PS2 EA Sports
August 18 β Astro Boy: Omega Factor (GBA)
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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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