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January

Valve shows off 13 Steam Machines covering all shapes, sizes and price points

DayZ standalone alpha version sells over 730,000 copies

Almost 10 years of World of Warcraft: Here's Blizzard's own infographic and milestones

Petition for PC version of GTA 5 reaches 650,000 signatures

Nintendo confirms poor sales, slashes Wii U forecasts dramatically

Valve looks to lead the charge in creating a standardized VR controller interface

February

'Flappy Bird' earns $50,000 per day in ad revenue for its creator

Here's the real reason why John Carmack left id Software

March

Valve launches Steam Family Sharing for all users

Google to launch cross-platform game services with Android and iOS matchmaking

'Minecraft' creator severs ties with Oculus VR following Facebook acquisition

April

'Hitman Go' reimagines popular franchise into an iPad board game

What the creators of Doom and Myst thought of each other's games in 1993

Study finds violent video games don't make players aggressive, non-mastery of the games do

More than half of all Steam games rarely (if ever) get played

Two out of every three players abandon free-to-play games within the first 24 hours

Analyst claims PC game revenues have surpassed console game revenues

May

Here's what the new Unreal Tournament game looks like after just three weeks of development

John Carmack's former employer says he stole technology and used it in the Oculus Rift

Developers abandon unfinished Steam title and the 200,000 gamers that bought it

EA to drop online multiplayer support for 50 games following GameSpy closure

Microsoft announces Halo 5: Guardians, coming in 2015

June

PC gaming is on the rise: In the console vs. PC race, it looks like PC is surging ahead

Modder harnesses hidden files to improve Watch Dogs PC graphics

Good Old Games unveils Steam-like digital platform

Atari's CEO plans to revive the brand with online gambling, original shows, and licensing deals

The world's largest video game collection brings in $750,250 at auction

Alienware Alpha is a $550 Steam Machine

Tetris: The best-selling video game in history turns 30 today

The world's most rare, and valuable video games

E3 2014 PC Game Trailer Roundup: Battlefield Hardline, The Division, The Witcher 3, Far Cry 4, more

July

Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming back from the grave

"Halo 3" Easter egg unearthed after nearly seven years

id Software teases "Doom" reboot during QuakeCon 2014

Valve updates the Steam Controller with an analog stick

EA announces subscription service for Xbox One gamers

Cliff Bleszinski's next game will be sci-fi PC arena shooter "BlueStreak"

August

Minecraft player builds fully functional in-game hard drive

Sierra set to make a comeback with new King's Quest game

Unreleased Duke Nukem game unearthed by Library of Congress

September

Blizzard, it's time to take Warcraft back to its RTS roots

The Sims 4's anti-piracy systems take pixelation to the extreme

'Destiny' becomes the biggest new video game franchise launch in history

It's official: Microsoft acquires Minecraft creator Mojang for $2.5 billion

'Grand Theft Auto V' heading to next-gen consoles this fall, PC version delayed until 2015

Blizzard makes tough decision to cancel next-gen MMO 'Project Titan'

October

The Evil Within is locked at 30 FPS on PC, by default

3D Realms returns from the dead with 32-game 'Anthology' collection

DirectX 12 to launch with Windows 10 next year

November

Play more than 900 classic arcade games in your browser, no quarters required

'Far Cry 4' plot twist leads to brilliant alternate ending (spoiler alert)

Blizzard's Overwatch is a new team-based multiplayer shooter that reminds us of Team Fortress 2

"Grand Theft Auto V" to get first-person mode on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC

Microsoft completes its $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft creator Mojang

December

Op-ed: New video games shouldn't be so broken

Steam is region locking PC games to stop people exploiting low currency values

"Doom" game designer celebrates its 21st birthday, reveals a ton of never-before-seen game art

Microsoft's Xbox One finally outsells Sony's PlayStation 4

Ralph Baer, the father of video games, dies at the age of 92

Valve pulls mass shooter game Hatred from Steam Greenlight

Sony celebrates PlayStation's 20th anniversary with a limited edition, retro-themed PS4

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