

Irrational Games, the creator of the BioShock series was shut down.ġ0th British Academy Video Games Awards held in Tobacco Dock, London. Microsoft acquired the Gears of War franchise from Epic Games.ĭouble Helix Games was acquired by Steam Dev Days held in Seattle, Washington.

PlayStation Now, a cloud-streaming from Sony Computer Entertainment was announced. GungHo Online Entertainment ( SoftBank Group)īlizzard Entertainment ( Activision Blizzard)Ītari emerges from Bankruptcy and plans to enter the Social Casino market.

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The following were 2014's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms). The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.Ģ014 games and expansions scoring at least 90/100 (MC) or 90% (GR) Game ^ a b Certain award presentations combine these categories.Top-rated games Major awards Category/Organizationġ5th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards Other significant games that won awards included Destiny, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, and Monument Valley. for Wii U, Dark Souls II, Bayonetta 2, Shovel Knight, Velocity 2X, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mario Kart 8, and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

On Twitter and other Internet social media, the Gamergate controversy began.Īmong video games originally released in 2014, critics gave the highest reviews to Super Smash Bros. Nintendo released Amiibo in 2014, companion figurines that could be scanned by the 3DS and WiiU systems. In video game-related corporate acquisitions, Amazon purchased the online video game streaming service Twitch, and Facebook acquired the virtual reality company and product Oculus. No new major consoles were released, but updates and upgrades were: the New Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan and Oceania, and Sony released new model 2000 PS Vita systems in Europe & North America. The year 2014 saw a number of events in the video game industry. It's largely used as a setting for fan machinima now.Overview of the events of 2014 in video games Official services ended in 2008, but as of 2010, Cyan Worlds released the server source code. Think big crowds of anime girls in PvP battles and you've got the picture.Įssentially a chatroom for people to solve the series' convoluted puzzles in, Myst Online couldn't make a case for itself. The NA servers shut down just over a year after launch, though it's still kicking around in Japan. It managed to stick around for four years in the West before the English servers were shut down in 2014.Īn MMO with a complex, canceled-then-sold-and-re-released history that has done surprisingly well in Japan but mostly flopped in the West. Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms hack-and-slash went online, but otherwise looks a lot like classic Dynasty Warriors. Western servers shut down in 2010, while the Japanese servers hang on for two more years, until a much more popular sequel, PSO2, took over.ĭied: January 2014 (English servers only) By comparison, PSU was a dated dungeon crawler the moment it arrived. Dark and Light rights were acquired by Snail Games, which made an early access survival game in 2017 using the same name.Ī bland successor to Phantasy Star Online, which was groundbreaking as a console MMO back in 2001. Bugs and poor visuals overpowered the dark and light. Unable to slow-mo dodge the inevitable, all services were shut down on August 1, 2009.Īnother fantasy MMO, Dark and Light's hook were it's, uh, dark and light progression tracks. It worked, but not well enough to keep players around.
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Monolith Productions had the uneasy task of turning a monolith movie into an MMO.
