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Contents 1 Events 2 Notable releases 3 Hardware 4 Business

[edit] Events

• Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 1st Annual Interactive Achievement Awards; inducts Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo to the AIAS Hall of Fame
• British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosts the 1st annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards
• 4th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); the 1st annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E3
• Game One channel (subsidiary of Canalplus); Infogrames Entertainment SA and Canal+ launch the Game One television channel

[edit] Notable releases

Video game platforms

DC Dreamcast GB Game Boy N64 Nintendo 64 PS1 PlayStation / PSone Sat Sega Saturn Win Microsoft Windows

• January 21 – Resident Evil 2 (PS)
• January 28 - Final Fantasy Tactics (PS)
• February 28 – Tekken 3 (PS)
• March 29 – Parasite Eve (PS)
• March 31 – StarCraft (Win)
• April 30 - Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven (Win)
• April 30 - Panzer Dragoon Saga (Sat)
• May 6 – Warhammer: Dark Omen (Win)
• May 22 – Unreal (Win)
• June 29 - Banjo-Kazooie (Nintendo 64)
• August 21 – Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (Win)
• August 31 - I-War (Independence War) (Win)
• September 10 - Spyro the Dragon (PS)
• September 30 – Fallout 2 (Win)
• September 30 – Pokémon Red and Blue (GB)
• October 20 – Xenogears (PS)
• October 21 - Metal Gear Solid (PS)
• October 30 – Grim Fandango (Win)
• October 31 – Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion (Win)
• October 31 – SiN (Win)
• October 31 - Heretic 2 (Win)
• November 20 – Half-Life (Win)
• November 21 – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
• November 30 – StarCraft: Brood War (Win)
• November 30 – Starsiege: Tribes (Win)
• November 30 – Thief: The Dark Project (Win)
• November 30 – Baldur's Gate (Win)
• September 30 - Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (Win)
• October 31 - Blood II: The Chosen (Win)
• December - - King's Quest: Mask of Eternity (Win)
• December 10 – Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (N64)(Win)
• December 20 – Myth II: Soulblighter (Win)

[edit] Hardware

• Bandai's WonderSwan handheld in Japan
• Majesco Sales Inc.'s Genesis 3 home console
• Nintendo:
  • Game Boy Color (GBC) handheld console
  • Camera & Printer accessories for the Game Boy handheld console
• Sega's NAOMI arcade system board and Dreamcast home console
• SNK's Neo Geo Pocket (NGP) handheld

[edit] Business

• Activision acquires CD Contact Data and Head Game Publishing
• Eidos Interactive acquires Crystal Dynamics
• Electronic Arts Inc. acquires Virgin Studio and Westwood Studios, Inc.
• Hasbro, Inc. acquires Atari Corporation (from JTS Corp.), Microprose, and Tiger Electronics
• JTS Corp. (Atari Corporation) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
• BreakAway Games, Ltd. founded
• Elixir Studios Ltd. formed
• Lego Media established by Lego Group
• Metro3D, Inc. founded
• Rockstar Games founded
• Square Co. and Electronic Arts form Square Electronic Arts LLC to publish a wealth of Square Co. titles in the U.S.
• Havas, a subsidiary of Vivendi, acquires Cendant Software, which includes Sierra On-Line and Blizzard Entertainment
• Sunrise Interactive founded
• Troika Games founded
• WildTangent, Inc. founded

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