PC Gamer has compiled a list of the most important events of the last 30 years for the development of PC-gaming
By: Anton Kratiuk | 14.11.2023, 19:40
These days the famous gaming publication PC Gamer is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
In honour of this event, the editorial staff of the portal has compiled a list of the most important events for PC-gaming during the magazine's existence.
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PC Gamer staff compiled an interesting list of events that determined the vector of development of the video-gaming industry and PC-games in particular.
We offer you to read this list, which is both informative and interesting, nostalgic and makes you think: what you personally disagree with and what you would add to it.
From 1993 to 2003
- Doom release (December 1993)
- birth of E3 (June 1995)
- Quake release (June 1996)
- Ultima Online release (September 1997)
- release of Fallout (October 1997)
- release of the Voodoo2 line of graphics accelerators (March 1998)
- StarCraft release (March 1998)
- Thief: The Dark Project (December 1998)
- Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings (September 1999)
- GameMaker engine release - (November 1999)
- release of Deus Ex (June 2000)
- finalisation of Windows XP (August 2001)
- Battlefield 1942 release (September 2002)
- EVE Online release (May 2003)
- Steam launch (September 2003)
- Call of Duty release (October 2003)
From 2004 to 2013
- Half-Life 2 release (November 2004)
- World of Warcraft release (November 2004)
- First DLC ever - horse armour in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion (April 2006)
- Dwarf Fortress release (August 2006)
- The Orange Box release (October 2007)
- Plants vs. Zombies (May 2009)
- Steam release of the first Japanese game Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (September 2010)
- Minecraft release (November 2011)
- release of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (November 2011)
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012) release (October 2012)
- Early Access on Steam (March 2013)
- Oculus Rift DK1 release - (March 2013)
From 2014 to 2023
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt release - (May 2015)
- release of Steam Link, Steam Controller and Steam Machine - Valve's first devices - (November 2015)
- PUBG: Battlegrounds release (December 2017)
- GeForce RTX 2080 launch (September 2018)
- Disco Elysium release (October 2019)
- COVID-19 Pandemic (January 2020)
- Valheim release (February 2021)
- Steam Deck appearance (February 2022)
- Baldur's Gate III release (August 2023)
- Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 2.0 release (September 2023)
Source: PC Gamer