2004 in video gaming

Duke Nukem Forever is now in its seventh year of production, and now slated for a 2005 release. Many, such as gaming website GameSpot, consider this year to be one of the strongest in terms of releases, due to block buster titles like Metroid Prime 2, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Burnout 3: Takedown, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Ninja Gaiden, World of Warcraft and Rome: Total War. Plus Gungrave Overdose

Console Hardware Releases[edit | edit source]

NVIDIA:
- GeForce 6 Series launched
  - GeForce 6800 Series
  - GeForce 6600 Series

March 4 - March 5 — DICE 2004 ?
March 7 - March 11 — Game Developers Conference;
May 12 - The Xbox 360 was officially announced on MTV in a special hosted by Elijah Wood.
May 16 - The PlayStation 3 was unveiled by Sony during a pre-E3 press conferece, at 21:25 GMT. At the same time, the press release was released through the Japanese PlayStation website.
May 17 - May 20 — Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) takes place in Los Angeles, California. 400 exhibiting companies and 70,000 industry professionals representing 79 countries attended. Next-generation systems from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft were unveiled.
September 16 - September 18 — Tokyo Game Show takes place at Makuhari Messe. 130 companies are expected to show with 1,429 booths.

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