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, 19:25

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