1999 in video games

• British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosts the 2nd annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards. • March – Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children is republished as Game Over: Press Start to Continue. • March 15 – Game Network hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) at GDC. • 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. • May 12 – Nintendo has started working on what will eventually be the GameCube, under the codename "Project Dolphin". • May 13 – Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (at E3); inducts Sid Meier of Firaxis Games to the AIAS Hall of Fame. • May 13–15 – 5th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); the 2nd annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E3. • September 7 - The SegaWorld London amusement park shuts down for good exactly three years after its original opening date in 1996. The bottom two floors of the park continue to operate as a generic arcade until 2011. ==Hardware==

This is a list of all the game-related hardware released in 1999. The Sega Dreamcast made its international release after initially launching in Japan the previous year. == Top-rated games ==

Game of the Year awards The following titles won Game of the Year awards for 1999. Critically acclaimed titles Metacritic and GameRankings Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. Famitsu Platinum Hall of Fame The following video game releases in 1999 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40. == Financial performance ==

Best-selling video game consoles } The following titles were the top ten highest-grossing home video games of 1999 in the United States and Europe. } () United States In the United States, the following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 1999. } Japan In Japan, the following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 1999. } Europe In Europe, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing home video games of 1999. } () In the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, the following titles were the best-selling home video games of 1999. Australia In Australia, the following titles were the top ten best-selling console games of 1999. Highest-grossing arcade games in Japan In Japan, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 1999. ==Notable releases==

• February 22 – Sierra reorganizes to cut costs in what is widely referred to as the "Chainsaw Monday" Layoffs, closing several studios and their iconic former headquarters in Oakhurst, California. Some employees were given the option to relocate to their new headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. • Midway Games stops using the Atari Games brand. • New companies: 3d6 Games, 7 Studios, BAM!, Liquid Entertainment, Bohemia Interactive, 7FX Acquisitions • Activision acquires Elsinore Multimedia, Expert Software, and Neversoft Entertainment • Infogrames Entertainment, SA acquires Accolade (Renamed Infogrames North America), Gremlin Interactive (renamed Infogrames Sheffield House), GT Interactive (GTIS), and Ozisoft • Take-Two Interactive acquires TalonSoft • ZeniMax Media acquires Bethesda Softworks • Codemasters acquires Sensible Software ==Lawsuits==

• Nintendo v. Bung Enterprises Ltd.; Nintendo sues Bung over patent infringement • Sony Corporation v. Bleem LLC ==See also==