• December 01, 1997 – Quake 2 goes gold.
• December 02, 1999 – Quake III Arena ships. (Todd Hollenshead’s .plan)
• December 05, 2001 – Planet Wolfenstein is born!
• December 08, 1997 – CompUSA pulls Postal from shelves.
• December 10, 1993 – DOOM first public release.
• December 11, 2006 – 140,000+ sign up for Halo 3 North American beta within 24 hours, sign-up page dies.
• December 14, 1990 – Commander Keen is released.
• December 14, 2001 – In Australia, the government bans the sale of Grand Theft Auto III in the country. The Office of Film and Literature Classification refused to rate the game due to its graphic violence.
• December 16, 1993 – Toys ‘R’ Us in the USA ceases selling the Night Trap video game for the Sega Genesis game system, due to public complaints about violence.
• December 18, 1998 – Tribes goes gold.
• December 18, 1998 – Baldur’s Gate goes gold.
• December 18, 2002 – Impossible Creatures goes gold.
• December 19, 2001 – Medal of Honor: Allied Assault goes gold.
• December 21, 2005 – Blizzard bans over 18,000 World of Warcraft accounts for gold farming.
• December 23, 1994 – Heretic is released.
• December 30, 2005 – Asheron’s Call 2 shut down.

Birthdays

• 1st – Kevin Cloud (id Software)
• 12th – Robert Duffy (QERadiant, id Software)

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