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Midwest Gaming Classic 2014 held at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel in Brookfield, Wisconsin. PAX East 2014 held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Project Morpheus, a virtual reality initiative from Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 is announced. Game Developers Conference 2014 held in San Francisco, California. 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.

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, personal computer, 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

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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 Wii U 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.

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