The list of game consoles released in 2012 in North America. Tokyo Game Show 2012 held in Chiba, Japan.Įurogamer Expo 2012 held in Earls Court, London. Street Fighter franchise completes 25 years. QuakeCon 2012: The massive annual LAN party held in Dallas, Texas.

Į3 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Korean e-Sports Association, Ongamenet, Blizzard Entertainment and GOM TV announced the introduction of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to professional competitions in South Korea with StarCraft: Brood War being completely phased out in October. PAX East 2012 held in Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Game Developers Conference 2012 held in San Francisco, California. Sega reduces western business after the release of Binary Domain, and focuses on digital on PC and Mobile The following were 2012's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms).īlizzard Entertainment ( Activision Blizzard) The Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series The Walking Dead: Episode 5 – No Time Left Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.Ģ012 games and expansions scoring at least 90/100 (MC) or 90% (GR) Game The end of the year marked the worldwide release of Nintendo's home game console, the Wii U.

The year began with the worldwide release of Sony's handheld game console, the PlayStation Vita, originally launched in Japan in December 2011. Many awards went to games such as Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Journey, Mass Effect 3, Dishonored, The Walking Dead and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Numerous video games were released in 2012.

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