Our account of 2010 C.Due east. continues with a glimpse at the moments that shaped the second one-half of the year. Sure, you may think they're all even so fresh in your listen, but remember when you thought the same thing about those leftovers that turned into fungal monsters in your fridge?

Yous'll discover the highlights from July through December after the pause. Yes, some of them take turned into fungal monsters while you weren't paying them any heed.

July

Jul. 6: Forget virtually an Blastoff Protocol sequel. The case report in how non to launch a game concludes.

Jul. fifteen: 1 vs. 100 is canned. The peachy Xbox Live experiment comes to an terminate, but its tech will be used for "spiritual successor" Total House Poker. Call Uncle Jesse!

Jul. 21: Limbo is released on XBLA and proves you can totally get away with killing a kid in horrific ways in a video game, if it'south washed artistically. The game climbs its way into our summit games of 2010.

Jul. 27: Social games investment reaches a new loftier as Disney Interactive acquires Playdom for $563.2 million. Major biz reorganization follows and Disney cancels Pirates of the Caribbean area: Armada of the Damned. We're still waiting to hear if Epic Mickey was a sales success.

Jul. 28: SOCOM 4 is delayed to 2011, as plans to position it as a "core" PlayStation Move launch title are abandoned. The 3D way is non to blame.

August

Aug. v: Batman: Arkham City gets a name, and nosotros showtime to practice our hype-ventilating breathing exercises. Next fall is a long ways abroad.

Aug. 12: BioShock Infinite unveiled as Ken Levine and co. reveal their Irrational plans to have the franchise sky-high.

Aug. thirteen: Crysis 2 is dated for March 2011 shortly after being delayed beyond an originally planned 2010 release. (Are we sensing a 2nd-half theme however?)

Aug. 16–xviii: GDC Europe 2010 reveals surprising details nigh United states of america Heavy Pelting sales and the consumer's developing interest in DLC.

Aug. 17: Realtime Worlds begins to unravel . The studio dies -- along with its new MMO -- and stays dead. APB, yet, is

resurrected

, er reloaded.

Aug. 18–22: GamesCom 2010, the world's largest video game convention (TGS is second), takes place in Deutschland. Nosotros're subjected to the horror of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 for the outset fourth dimension -- merely not the final.

Aug 19: PSJailbreak USB modchip claims to crack PS3 arrangement security, and it's not a hoax. The noise dies downwardly after a court ruling in Sony'southward favor and a PS3 firmware update blocks the device.

Aug. 24: EA insists controversy over the apply of the "Taliban" proper name in Medal of Honor's multiplayer won't force a compromise of the game's "artistic vision." Whoops! That doesn't last. Fifty-fifty after the Taliban becomes the "Opposing Force," Armed forces stores don't sell the game and DICE claims the overall controversy had a negative effect on the reviews.

Aug. 30: Microsoft announces annual Xbox Alive price hike to $threescore. There'southward always PlayStation Plus for $10 less.

September

Sept. 2: L.A. Noire is officially delayed. This was preceded by Have-Ii's other noir title, Max Payne three, falling into its own delay -- but at to the lowest degree it dodged counterfoil in doing and so!

Sep. 3–five: Duke Nukem Forever volition be completed by Gearbox was the promise fabricated on the PAX Prime prove floor. Duke Nukem' Forever Volition BE COMPLETED by Gearbox.

Sep. 16–19: Tokyo Game Bear witness gives us our commencement shot at Gal Gun.

Sep. 16: The Last Guardian is finally dated ... for Holiday 2011. Did you actually call up it was always going to be 2010?

Sep. 16: PSP2 reportedly in the hands of Mortal Kombat developers, and and then EA. By twelvemonth'southward end, we see alleged prototype shots and specs, but Sony will wait for when "the timing is right" to ostend.

Sep. twenty: Everyman hero Steve Wiebe reclaims the " King of Kong " title. (But information technology's brusque-lived.)

Sep. 22: Sick-conceived publicity stunt of the year goes to GOG.com for making users recall it'southward dead, thus igniting long-held fears nearly the sustainability of digital distribution. Haha -- fooled you! Just a revamp.

October

October. ane: Q4 kicks off with Gears of State of war 3's delay ... from April 2011 to the holidays. At present, that's being proactive!

October. 4: Several months after a soft launch, OnLive ditches its proposed monthly fee. The service's Microconsole follows in December. Accept they convinced you notwithstanding?

Oct. vii: World of Warcraft has hooked more than 12 million subscribers. Two months subsequently, on December vii, the Calamity expansion becomes the "fastest-selling PC game of all time" with 3.3 million copies sold in a mean solar day.

Oct. 13: Gran Turismo 5, after what feels like an eternity in development, is delayed ... ane ... last ... fourth dimension. Sony reports worldwide shipments reaching 5.5 million units by early December.

Oct. 18: Netflix goes native on Wii and PS3, completing the "Big Three" trifecta and condign an integral piece of the multimedia gaming console puzzle. Hulu Plus is slowly gettin' at that place.

Oct. xix: Later maxim "au revoir" to Ubisoft, the creative force known as Patrice Desilets joins THQ to head up the visitor's new Montreal studio. THQ'due south reinvention marches on.

Oct. 20: We get our first existent gustation of Windows Phone 7 gaming and conclude, "it's difficult to recommend rushing out to purchase a first-generation Windows Telephone right at this moment."

October. 21: Super Meat Boy debuts on XBLA. This "gamer's game" gives united states thumb blisters and earns itself a place amid the year'southward best.

Oct. 26: The nigh excellent Rock Band 3 goes on tour, as music game sales continue to collapse. This has got to be foreshadowing something ...

Oct. 26: The PlayStation Telephone leaks begin and quickly overflowing the internet. As of this writing, it's still not "official."

November

Nov. two: EA Sports' NBA Elite xi canceled at the eleventh hour because "it was simply going to be a bad game." Original necktie-in title, NBA Jam, beefs upwards and subs in. Nevertheless no reports of Have-Two sending EA a big "thank y'all" fruit basket.

Nov. 2: Califonia's infamous " vehement game beak " goes before the Supreme Court in "Schwarzenegger v. EMA." Cheque out what the justices had to say in normal and "NBA Jam guy" flavors.

Nov. eleven: Surprise! Phone call of Duty: Blackness Ops sets day-one sales record, then rakes in a billion bucks before the year'due south upwardly.

Nov. 16: Assassin'southward Creed: Brotherhood launches, with multiplayer! We're totally surprised ... simply we quickly acquire the ropes. Don't step into the Animus unless yous're gear up. You'll get stabbed.

November. sixteen: Activision'southward bizarre drama goes public. No, not that Infinity Ward stuff. Sorry, information technology needs to be capitalized: Bizarre drama.

Nov. xviii: Portal 2 receives " the shortest delay in Valve history " to wrap up the yr's noteworthy delays. Phew!

Dec

December. 6: Lara Croft goes under the knife over again for latest Tomb Raider reinvention.

December. 9: NPD reports record-high for Usa consumer spending on "concrete retail" gaming in November, despite a dip in the annual total, as factored past market inquiry firm Newzoo. Of course, sales of other, less "physical" forms of gaming media skyrocketed in 2010.

Dec. 11: We endure through another Spike Video Game Awards show. Red Dead Redemption wins the big prize and Mass Issue 3 is officially announced. PS3 players get to take hold of up in January.

Dec. 11: Angry Birds is Apple's top-selling iPhone game of the year, and that's an understatement. The phenomenon captivates only about everyone with a compatible device, equally we find ourselves badly trying to trounce our parents' scores.

Dec. xx: Minecraft is updated to beta and closes in on an astonishing 850,000 copies sold. (The one-million marker is less than a month away.)

December. 23: About that foreshadowing for earlier: Viacom sells Rock Band programmer Harmonix ... back to Harmonix.

Dec. 27: Pokémon Blackness and White are dated for a March 6 release in North America -- not like Nintendo fifty-fifty needs to bother.

December. 31: The Child's Play charity raises a record-breaking $2 million-plus for the year. "If information technology is possible to Win Charity," Penny Arcade's Jerry Holkins declares to donors in the new year, "you have washed so."

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