British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosts the 2nd annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards.
March 1999 — Game Over republished as “Game Over: Press Start to Continue”.
March 15–19, 1999 — 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, 1999 — Game Network hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) at GDC.
May 1999 — Nintendo has started working on what will eventually be the GameCube, under the codename "Project Dolphin".
May 13–15, 1999 — 5th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); the 2nd annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E3.
May 13, 1999 — 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.
July 3, 1999 — 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.
September 9 — The Dreamcast is launched in North America with 19 launch titles.
Nintendo's Game Boy Light (GBL) handheld console released in Japan only
SNK's Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld released.
Tiger Electronics Game.com Pocket Pro handheld released.
Sony PlayStation 2 is announced.
February 22 — Sierra reorganizes to cut costs, closing several studios.
New companies: 3d6 Games, 7 Studios, BAM!, Liquid Entertainment, Bohemia Interactive, 7FX
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
Nintendo v. Bung Enterprises Ltd.; Nintendo sues Bung over patent infringement
Sony Corporation v. Bleem LLC
Spiel des Jahres: Tikal - Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer, Ravensburger
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