Supergiant Games released their most ambitious game to date, Hades, on PC, Switch, and macOS.
A sequel to LittleBigPlanet was released for the PlayStation Portable.
MTV and Harmonix released Rock Band for PS3 and Xbox 360 in North America.
RedOctane released Guitar Hero for PlayStation 2 in North America.
Microsoft entered the video game market with the launch of its first game console, the Xbox.
The very first Sims game was released for PC in North America.
Mario Party was released in North America for the Nintendo 64.
Blizzard Entertainment released the first Diablo game.
Pong was released. It was the first commercially successful video game.