1999 in video gaming

BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) hosts the 2nd annual BAFTA Interactive Awards
March 15-19 — 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 — Gama Network hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) at GDC
May 13-15 — 5th annual E³ (Electronic Entertainment Expo); the 2nd annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E³
May 13 — Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (at E3); inducts Sid Meier of Firaxis to the AIAS Hall of Fame
July 3 — Billy Mitchell (Pac-Man) 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 2006.

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
3d6 Games, Inc. founded (closes November 1, 2002)
7 Studios founded
BAM! Entertainment, Inc. founded
Bohemia Interactive Studio founded
February 22 — "Black Monday" (or "Chainsaw Monday"): Sierra reorganizes to cut costs, closing several studios.
April — Liquid Entertainment founded
October — 7FX founded as subsidiary of a Czech company

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