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Events

BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) hosts the 2nd annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards
March – Game Over republished as “Game Over: Press Start to Continue”
March 15-19 — Game Developers Conference (formerly Computer Game Developers Conference); moves to San Jose, California where it stays for six consecutive years; hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival
March 15 — Gama Network hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) at GDC
May 13-15 — 5th annual E³ (Electronic Entertainment Expo); the 2nd annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E³
May 13 — Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (at E3); inducts Sid Meier of Firaxis to the AIAS Hall of Fame
July 3 — Gamer Billy Mitchell scores a perfect 3,333,360 points on the Pac-Man arcade game
Team Fortress 2 is announced for release during the year, but gets delayed until 2007.
July 21 during the Macworld Conference & Expo, Steve Jobs announced that Halo: Combat Evolved would be released for Mac OS and Windows simultaneously. Before this public announcement, game industry journalists under a non-disclosure agreement had previewed the game in a private showing during E3 1999.

Platform key
DC	Dreamcast
GB	Game Boy
GBA	Game Boy Advance
GBC	Game Boy Color
GCN	Nintendo GameCube
iPod	iPod
Lin	Linux
Mac	Macintosh personal computer
NDS	Nintendo DS
PS1	PlayStation
PS2	PlayStation 2
PS3	PlayStation 3
PSP	PlayStation Portable
Wii	Wii
Win	Windows-based personal computer
XB	Xbox
X360	Xbox 360

Activision acquires Elsinore Multimedia, Expert Software, and Neversoft Entertainment
Infogrames Entertainment SA acquires Accolade, Gremlin Interactive (renamed Infogrames Sheffield House), GT Interactive Software (GTIS), and Ozisoft
Take Two Interactive acquires TalonSoft
Zenimax Media acquires Bethesda Softworks
3d6 Games, Inc. founded (closes November 1, 2002)
7 Studios founded
BAM! Entertainment, Inc. founded
Bohemia Interactive Studio founded
February 22 — "Black Monday" (or "Chainsaw Monday"): Sierra reorganizes to cut costs, closing several studios.
April — Liquid Entertainment founded
October — 7FX founded as subsidiary of a Czech company

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