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2004 in video gaming

August 18 — Astro Boy: Omega Factor (GBA)

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December 13 — Electronic Arts purchases a 5-year exclusive agreement for the Buy EVE Online ISK rights to the Ragnarok Online Zeny NFL, which includes NFL teams, stadiums and players for use in EA’s football videogames.

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February 9 — EverQuest: Gates of Discord (PC)

March 2 — Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)

April 27 — Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots (PC)

October 26 — Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (PC)

December 6 — Knights of the Second Life Linden Old Republic II: the HO Gold Sith Lords (Xbox)

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November 3 — Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (PS2)

November 16 — Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (PS2)

October 4 — Mortal Kombat: Deception (PS2, Xbox)

April 6 — Midway Games acquires Surreal Software

November 21 — Nintendo launches its DS handheld in the DAOC CD Key US

November 16 — Joint Operations: Escalation (PC)

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September 9 — Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (GBA)

November 9 — Halo 2 (Xbox)

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March 16 — Unreal Tournament 2004 (PC)

[edit]Handheld game systems

November 15 — Need for Speed: Underground 2 (PS2)

September 13 — EverQuest: Omens of War (PC)

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GCN Nintendo GameCube

June 15 — Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (PC)

May 6 — Samurai Warriors (PS2)

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April 20 — Hitman: Contracts (PC, PS2, Xbox)

October 4 — Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (GBA, GC, PC, PS2, Xbox)

September 22 — Katamari Damacy (PS2)

March 23 — Sonic Heroes (GC, PS2, Xbox)

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November 15 — Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GC)

December 6 — the Sword of the New World VIS Lord of the Shadow of Legend Gold Rings: the MS Mesos Battle for Middle-earth (PC)

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March 4 — Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; inducts Peter Molyneux into the Cabal Online ALZ AIAS Hall of Fame

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February — EA consolidates, rolls most of Maxis and all of Origin Systems into its Redwood Shores, California HQ

November 16 — Half-Life 2 (PC)

Nintendo GameCube

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Top Grossing Video Games of 2004 Rank Title Platform Publisher

Win Windows-based personal computer

September 7 — Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2) (Xbox)

September 20 — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (PC)

November 8 — EverQuest II (PC)

August 30 — Pikmin 2 (GC)

September 21 — Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia (PC, PS2)

October 25 — OutRun 2 (Xbox)

December 1 — Painkiller: Battle out of Hell (PC)

October 12 — EA Sports launches “FIFA Soccer 2005″. It’s officially the Star Wars Galaxies Credits last game in the 9 Dragons history of PlayStation

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September 14 — Call of Duty: United Offensive (PC)

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March 9 — Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword (PC)

September 14 — Fable (Xbox)

September 22 — Rome: Total War (PC)

November 30 — Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (GC, PC, PS2, Xbox)

August 3 — Doom 3 (PC)

November 17 — Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)

January 12 — Ubisoft acquires Tiwak

April 12 — Painkiller (PC)

NDS Nintendo DS

Events

July 13 — Tales of Symphonia (GC)

March 23 — Final Fantasy XI (North America) (PS2)

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September 7 — the FFXI CD Key Sims 2

May — Sammy Corporation buys a controlling share in Sega Corporation at a cost of $1.1 billion creating the MxO Info new company, “Sega Sammy Holdings Inc”, one of the Warhammer Gold biggest gaming companies in the Buy L2 Adena world.

June 1 — the RS Gold Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Xbox)

November 21 — Super Mario 64 DS (NDS)

March 23 — Far Cry (PC)

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September 20 — Def Jam: Fight for NY (GC, PS2, Xbox)

10 Halo: Combat Evolved Xbox Microsoft

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September 21 — Star Wars Battlefront (PS2, Xbox)

November 16 — Vampire: the Guild Wars CD Key Masquerade - Bloodlines (PC)

May 11 — Nintendo officially announces its “Revolution” (later named Wii) console.

October 11 — Paper Mario: the Buy Guild Wars Gold Thousand-Year Door (GC)

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March 14 — Battlefield Vietnam (PC)

March — Microsoft announces XNA the KAL Online Geons successor of DirectX as the Hellgate Palladium default API for Windows Vista and Xenon.

October 25 — Ace Combat 5: the MXO CD Key Unsung War (PS2)

July - IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) hosts 5th annual Executive Summit

November 9 — Jak 3 (PS2)

November 23 — World of Warcraft (PC)

November 5 — Nobuo Uematsu resigns from Square Enix and becomes a freelancer, starting his own business, called Smile Please Co., Ltd..

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Sony PlayStation 2

October 11 — Midway Games acquires Inevitable Entertainment and renames it Midway Studios Austin.

November 2 — Killzone (PS2)

GBA Game Boy Advance

October 26 — Dead or Alive Ultimate (Xbox)

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X360 Xbox 360

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December 20 — Electronic Arts purchases 20% stake in Ubisoft. the CO ALZ purchase at the WOW Gold time was considered “hostile”, by Ubisoft.

October 29 — Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)

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PS2 PlayStation 2

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November 2 — Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (PC)

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January 20 — Wired’s Vaporware Awards gives its first “Lifetime Achievement Award” to recurring winner Duke Nukem Forever.

September 28 — Myst IV: Revelation (PC)

December 8 — the Vanguard Saga of Heroes Game Card Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC)

July — Square Enix restructures executive branches around the Cheap Guild Wars Gold world.

September 7 — Silent Hill 4: the DDO Gold Room (PC, PS2, Xbox)

March 22-26 — Game Developers Conference hosts 4th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and Gama Network’s 6th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF)

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The dominant handheld systems in 2004 were:

May 25 — Thief: Deadly Shadows (PC, Xbox)

August 30 — Acclaim declares bankruptcy and closes its doors

April 27 — City of Heroes (PC)

[edit]Business

November 30 — Midway Games acquires developer Paradox Development.