See also: List of million-selling game consoles and List of best-selling video games Worldwide īlizzCon 2008 in Anaheim, California, United States. Tokyo Game Show at the Makuhari Messe International Convention in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan. Į for All at the Los Angeles Convention center in California, United States. Infogrames, Atari's parent company, purchases Cryptic Studios. Million of senior secured and unsecured debt. To private investor Mark Thomas, for $100,000 ($0.0012 a share), and assumes $70 National Amusements' Sumner Redstone sells his controlling stake in Midway Games Nintendo conference held in San Francisco, United States and Tokyo, Japan. QuakeCon 2008 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, United States. The console is aiming for developing countries.Į3 2008 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Game developers Joseph and Melissa Batten die in a murder-suicide.
New intellectual properties (IPs) include Army of Two, Dead Space, iRacing, Left 4 Dead, LittleBigPlanet, Mirror's Edge, Race Driver: Grid, and Spore.īlizzard Entertainment announces Diablo III in Paris, France.
2008 saw many sequels and prequels in video games.
