2005 in video gaming
November 1 — Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (GCN, PS2, Xbox)
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October 11 — Serious Sam II (PC, Xbox)
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January 6 — French publisher Titus Interactive, owner of Interplay Entertainment, is declared bankrupt after being in receivership since October 2004.
May 11 — the Cheap SWG Credits global version of Maplestory is launched.
June 21 — Psychonauts (PS2)
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March 7–March 11 — Game Developers Conference:
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March 22 — Lumines (PlayStation Portable)
January 11 — Resident Evil 4 (GCN)
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November 21 — Battlefield 2: Special Forces (PC)
December 5 — Super Mario Strikers (GCN)
November 7 — Kameo: Elements of Power (Xbox 360)
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May 12 — the Buy RS Gold Xbox 360 was officially announced on MTV in a special hosted by Elijah Wood.
January 24 — Major League Baseball and Take Two Interactive sign exclusive seven year deal that gives Take-Two the Metin2 Gold rights among third-party publishers to develop games based on the Maple Europe Mesos MLB license.
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October 7 — Black & White 2 (PC)
April 5 — Lego Star Wars: the Lineage II CD Key Video Game (GBA, GCN, PC, PS2, Xbox)
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February 22 — Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)
April 19 — Psychonauts (Xbox)
September 15 — Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (PS2, Xbox)
[edit]Notable releases
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Top Grossing Video Games of 2005 Rank Title Platform Publisher
July 27 — Sony Computer Entertainment released the VC Coin first major update in Japan for their video game handheld, the Buy Holic Online Gold PlayStation Portable. Version 2.00 includes an web browser, A-B repeat mode, Wi-Fi picture sending, as well as additional audio & video support among other features.
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October 25 — Resident Evil 4 (PS2)
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October 19 — Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GameCube)
November 14 — Nintendo’s first mainstream online service (Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection) is launched with Mario Kart DS and Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land.
October 25 — Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (PS2, Xbox)
April 26 — Psychonauts (PC)
^NPD Group\’s Annual 2005 U.S. PC Game Retail Sales. Retrieved on January 17, 2006.
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October 25 — Civilization IV (PC)
October 25 — Ratchet: Deadlocked (PS2)
March 31 — Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (GCN, PC, PS2, Xbox)
November 30 — Sony Computer Entertainment announce that PlayStation 2 breaks a record: the Last Chaos Gold fastest console to reach cumulative shipment of 100 million units, beating the World of Warcraft Europe Gold previous record holder, the The Matrix Information PlayStation, by three years and nine months. the Pirates of the Burning Sea Gold PS platform has until the EVE Online ISK present year the Buy COV Infamy biggest sales of all times of video games history, with 210 million consoles shiped.
October 25 — Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP)
September — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault (PC)
November 8 — Guitar Hero (PS2)
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June 13 — Kirby: Canvas Curse (NDS)
October 18 — Shadow of the Buy Lineage2 Adena Colossus (PS2)
February 24 — Tekken 5 (PS2)
January 25 — Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (Xbox)
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January 25 — Take Two Interactive announced that it acquired developer Visual Concepts and their wholly owned subsidiary Kush Games from Sega for $24 million. Additionally, Take Two also announced the SilkRoad Online Gold start of another publishing label named 2K Games.
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February 8 — Star Wars: Knights of the RS Gold Old Republic II: the FFXI CD Key Sith Lords (PC)
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June 7 — Medal of Honor: European Assault (GameCube, PS2, Xbox)
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August 17 —Madden NFL 06 (PC)
April 28 — Guild Wars (PC)
December 12 — Working Designs closes down.
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March 22 — God of War (PS2)
March 1 — Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening (PS2)
August 8— Abandon Mobile announces its formation through a partnership between Abandon Entertainment, Inc. and GF Capital Management and Advisors, LLC.
May 17-May 20 — Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) takes place in Los Angeles, California. Four hundred exhibiting companies and 70,000 industry professionals representing 79 countries attended. Next-generation systems from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft were unveiled.
October 25 — Soul Calibur III (PS2)
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March 6 — the controlled model television show 60 Minutes tackles issues within video game controversy. This segment of 60 Minutes has been criticized by video game players for encouraging video game censorship.[citation needed]
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September 20 — Marvel Nemesis - Rise Of the Belt-CP Imperfects (PS2, Xbox)
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November 30 — Prince of Persia: the World of Warcraft CD Keys Two Thrones (PS2), Xbox, GCN)
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^NPD Group\’s Annual 2005 U.S. Video Game Industry Retail Sales. Retrieved on January 17, 2006.
September 20 — Ninja Gaiden Black (Xbox)
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Nintendo keynote speech by Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo.
March 23 — Vivendi Universal Games buys developer Radical Entertainment. Radical is best known for developing the Mabinogi Gold Simpsons Hit & Run.
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[edit]Trends
November 15 — Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360)
March 2 — the World of Warcraft Gold Entertainment Software Rating Board or ESRB added the CO COMANCHE rating of “E10+” to its ratings system. E10+ was created in order to divide E ratings for younger and older children.
December 16 — the Vanguard-SOH Gold Family Entertainment Protection Act (FEPA) is introduced by Senators Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh. the City of Heroes Influence bill calls for a federal mandate enforcement of the Buy L2 Adena Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings system for video games in order to protect children from inappropriate content.
In 2005, the 12Sky Silver total U.S. sales of video game hardware, software and accessories rose 6% over 2004 to $10.5 billion USD ($9.9 billion, 2004) breaking 2002’s $10.3 billion record for the WOW Gold industry.
August 23 —Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (PS2,GCN, Xbox)
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September 20 — We ♥ Katamari (PS2)
October 17 — F.E.A.R. (PC)
^ Sony. “Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. to launch its Next Generation Computer Entertainment System in Spring 2006″ (PDF). Press release.
The increase is largely due to the Seal Cegel portable game market which counterbalanced sluggish console game sales. Delays, hardware shortages, and anticipation of next-generation video game consoles have been cited as reasoning for slow sales for both console games and console hardware. Console games and hardware dropped by 12% and 3% respectively.
Microsoft keynote speech by Robert J. Bach, chief Xbox officer and senior vice president, Home and Entertainment Division at Microsoft.
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August 22 —Advance Wars: Dual Strike (NDS)
Sony PlayStation Portable
Wii Wii
March 15 — Act of War: Direct Action (PC)
April 2 — Keiji Inafune, the MapleStory Meso creator of Mega Man series, was promoted from corporate officer to senior corporate officer.
[edit]Computer game sales
During Iwata’s keynote speech, the DunGeons and Dragons Gold Wii controller is unveiled.
North American release dates:
March 22 — Metal Gear Acid (PSP)
November 15 — Sonic Rush (NDS)
November 22 — Dragon Quest VIII (PS2)
April 4 — Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (PC)
July 20 — After coming under heavy fire from many politicians, most notably Hillary Clinton, the Cheap Xiah Gold Entertainment Software Rating Board re-rated Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Adults Only 18+ (AO) due to the SilkRoad Online Gold sexually explicit minigame mod “Hot Coffee”. Additionally, Rockstar Games ceased production of the 9 Dragons Gold game and has announced plans to offer a new version of the 2 Moons Dil game that can’t be affected by the RF Online CD Key mod, and plans to patch the WOW CD Key PC version.
November 14 — Shadow the Buy FFXI Gil Hedgehog (PS2, Xbox, GCN)
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November — Pandemic Studios and BioWare partner to create BioWare/Pandemic Studios.
November 15 — Condemned: Criminal Origins (Xbox 360)
5 NCAA Football 06 PS2 Electronic Arts
October 25 — Call of Duty 2 (PC)
March 29 — Dynasty Warriors 5 (PS2)
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December 5 — Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS)
March 14 — Donkey Kong Jungle BeatGC
May 1 — Pokemon Emerald (GBA)
June 21 — Destroy All Humans! (PS2, Xbox)
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November 16 — Need for Speed: Most Wanted (NDS, GBA, GCN, PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360)
[edit]Handheld game systems
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May 23 — Fire Emblem: the Cheap FFXI Gi Sacred Stones (GBA)
September 16 — September 18 — Tokyo Game Show takes place at Makuhari Messe. One hundred-thirty companies are expected to show with 1,429 booths.
November 18 — Quake 4 (Xbox 360)
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6 Battlefield 2 Electronic Arts
November 17 — Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360)
July - IEMA (Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association) hosts 6th annual Executive Summit.
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June 27 — Meteos (NDS)
Top Grossing Computer Games of 2005 Rank Title Publisher
Computer games continued its trend and declined by 14%, dropping from $1.1 billion in 2004 to $953 million. Although sales did decrease, NPD claims that playing games on the DDO Plat PC is actually increasing through a variety of different mediums including online websites and MMO subscriptions. [3]
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November 17 — Peter Jackson’s King Kong: the Vanguard Gold Official Game of the GW Gold Movie (Xbox 360)
November 1 — Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PC, PS2, Xbox)
June 1 — IBM held the Final Fantasy XI CD Key first virtual video game on-demand conference in which game developers and manufacturers were able to come together to discuss issues with online games, including management and distribution.
August 16 —EyeToy: Play 2 (PS2)
June 21 — Battlefield 2 (PC)
February 14 — WarioWare: Touched! (NDS)
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February — Troika Games defunct after being unable to get contracts for development work.
Nintendo keynote speech: “The Heart of the DAOC CD Key Gamer” by Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo.
Microsoft keynote speech: “The Future of Games: Unlocking the WOW Gold Opportunity” by J Allard, corporate vice president and chief XNA architect.
October 18 — Quake 4 (PC, Xbox 360)
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[edit]Video game systems
November 14 — Mario Kart DS (NDS)
March 21 — TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (GCN, PS2, Xbox)
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Nintendo DS
August 22 —Nintendogs (NDS)
May 23 — WarioWare: Twisted! (GBA)
September 13 — EverQuest II: Desert Of Flames (PC)
September 13 — Dynasty Warriors 5 (Xbox)
April 12 — Jade Empire (Xbox)
January 12 — Video game companies and players worldwide donate money to the Cabal Online Gold UNICEF South Asian Tsunami Relief Fund for rescue and reconstruction efforts upon the Hellgate Palladium South Asian tsunami disaster. Electronic Arts pledges to donate $250,000 to the LOTRO Gold UNICEF South Asian Tsunami Relief Fund. CCP, the Gaia Gold publisher of EVE Online, establishes a fund that video game players can contribute to.
August 8 — Madden NFL 06 (PS2, NDS,GCN)
March 22 — the MxO Info Matrix Online (PC)
January 20 — Activision announced that it acquired developer Vicarious Visions known best as a developer of Game Boy games as well as for their middleware program, Alchemy.
August 22 — Square Enix acquires Taito Corporation. That leads to Square Enix entering the EverQuest Plat arcade sector of the EVE Online ISK electronic game industry.
January 17 — Electronic Arts and ESPN announced a 15-year partnership that would give EA access to ESPN’s broadcast, print and online content.
December 12 — Final Fantasy IV (GBA)
January 11 — Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (PS2, Xbox)
November 22 — Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is released.
Additionally, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii were officially unveiled during or just prior to E3; however, only the cdkey Xbox 360 was released in 2005. the Lord of the Rings Online EU Gold Xbox 360 was released in North America on November 22, Europe on December 2, and Japan on December 10.
November 15 — WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 (PS2)
March 7 — Sammy Studios breaks away from Sammy and renames itself High Moon Studios.
March 9 — Sega acquires Creative Assembly.
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November 7 — Take-Two Interactive acquires Firaxis Games.
August 16 —Dungeon Siege II (PC)
October 18 — Age of Empires III (PC)
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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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