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November 10 – Kevin Conroy, 66, voice actor best known as the voice of Batman [110] November 19 – Jason David Frank, 49, actor best known for his role as the original Green and White Rangers in the Power Rangers franchise. [111] December 17 – Archer Maclean, 60, developer of Commodore 64 games including Dropzone and International Karate [112]
The number of highly praised video games released in 2023 was considered unusually high compared to most years, with 25 games having a 90 out of 100 or better aggregate score on Metacritic by October 2023; this made it the best year by number of acclaimed games, the largest since 2004. [9]
November – Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 are officially released on PC around the world, bringing in a new era for the first-person shooter genre of video games, with advanced graphics & physics. November 5 – Nobuo Uematsu resigns from Square Enix and becomes a freelancer, starting his own business, called Smile Please Co., Ltd.
^ a: In the IGN articles used as sources, IGN lists the titles as the "Top 10 Sellers in 2008"; however, the IGN articles were published on December 9–12, 2008, so the articles might not take into account November and December sales figures, as the NPD Group did not release November's console game sales figures until December 11, 2008. [27]
In the video game industry, 2020 saw the launch of the next generation of video game consoles, with both Microsoft and Sony Interactive Entertainment having released the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 consoles, respectively, in November 2020.
November 23 – Game Park releases the GP32 wireless-multiplayer multimedia handheld console in South Korea. December 5–9 – World Cyber Games 2001 are held in South Korea December 31 – Jez San is awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours, becoming the first person awarded specifically for services to video games .
Music. Philosophy. Science. +... Numerous video games were released in 2010. Many awards went to games such as Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Mass Effect 2, God of War III and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Kinect from Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 was also released this year.
December 8, 2021. Halo is a military science fiction media franchise, originally developed and created by Bungie and currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, part of Microsoft 's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach.