• March 03, 1971 – Magnavox signs an exclusive licensing agreement with Sanders Associates for the television video game technology.
• March 04, 2000 – Sony releases the PlayStation 2 video game system in Japan.
• March 04, 2004 – Unreal Tournament 2004 goes gold.
• March 05, 2001 – Serious Sam goes gold.
• March 10, 2000 – At the Game Developers’ Conference in San Jose, California, Bill Gates announces plans for Microsoft’s X-Box video game console.
• March 10, 2005 – At the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata shows footage of a new Legend of Zelda game for the GameCube, and gives some details of Nintendo’s next-generation console, code-name Revolution.
• March 14, 2000 – Soldier of Fortune goes gold.
• March 15, 2002 – Screen Gems releases the film Resident Evil to theaters in the US. The film is based on the video game of the same title. (Gross theater revenue: US$17 million.)
• March 16, 1999 – EverQuest released.
• March 16, 2001 – Black & White goes gold.
• March 18, 1982 – Federal District Judge George Leighton in Chicago orders Magnavox Home Entertainment Center to take its K.C. Munchkin video game off the market because of similarity to Atari’s Pac-Man.
• March 27, 2000 – Soldier of Fortune Released.
• March 28, 2002 – Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast released.
• March 29, 2001 – TRIBES 2 goes gold.
• March 29, 2003 - An anonymous hacker reveals a method to run Linux on an unmodified Xbox video game system, by exploiting a buffer overflow flaw in the “save/load game” function of the 007: Agent Under Fire video game. The flaw exists in several games, and can be used to load and run other software on the Xbox.
• March 29, 2004 – Painkiller goes gold.

Birthdays

• 27th – Christian Antkow (id Software)

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