This page summarizes events related to the Xbox franchise that occurred in 2008.
Events
January
February
March
April
- April 29: Grand Theft Auto IV is released simultaneously for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Various Hollywood producers have set a precedent by beginning to browse video game release dates to check for conflicts due to Grand Theft Auto IV's potential harm to the May 2, 2008 release of Iron Man.[1] The PS3 and Xbox 360 version have taken the second and fourth positions of Game Rankings' best-rated games of all time, respectively;[2] as well as being the first console game since 1999 to receive a perfect rating from IGN,[3] and the first title to receive a perfect rating from GameSpot since 2001.[4]
May
- May 2: Iron Man is released on Xbox 360.
- May 14: Assault Heroes 2 is released on Xbox Live Arcade.
- May 19: UEFA Euro 2008 is released on Windows and Xbox 360.
- May 20: Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is released on Windows.
- May 28: Ubisoft announces Beyond Good & Evil 2 during the end of Ubidays at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France, along with a teaser trailer featuring the game's first-two main characters: Pey'j and (possibly, though never focused clearly) Jade.
June
July
- July 15 — July 17: E3 2008 is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, United States.
- July 31 — August 3: QuakeCon 2008 is held at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, United States.
August
- August 12: Madden NFL 09 is released on Xbox and Xbox 360, becoming the last original Xbox game to ever be released.
- August 21 — August 24: Games Convention is held in Leipzig, Germany.
September
October
- October 3 — October 5: E for All is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- October 7:
- October 8: Beat'n Groovy is released on Xbox 360.
- October 9 — October 12:
- The Tokyo Game Show is held at the Makuhari Messe International Convention in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan.[5]
- Games Convention Asia is held in Singapore.
- October 10 — October 11: Blizzcon 2008 takes place in Anaheim, California, U.S.A.
- October 21:
November
- November 4:
- November 7: Gears of War 2 is released on Xbox 360.
- November 11:
- November 16: Banjo-Kazooie is released on Xbox Live Arcade.
- November 18:
- November 19:
December
- December 1:
- National Amusements' Sumner Redstone sells his controlling stake in Midway Games to private investor Mark Thomas, for $100,000 ($0.0012 a share), and assumes $70 million of senior secured and unsecured debt.[6]
- Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon is released on Xbox 360.
- December 2: Prince of Persia is released on Xbox 360.
- December 9: Infogrames, Atari's parent company, purchases Cryptic Studios.[7]
- December 10: METEOS WARS is released on Xbox Live Arcade.
- December 11: PowerUp Forever is released on Xbox Live Arcade.
- December 16: Rise of the Argonauts is released on Windows and Xbox 360.
- December 17: Doritos Dash of Destruction is released on Xbox 360.
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