April 29: Grand Theft Auto IV is released simultaneously for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Various Hollywood producers have set precedent by beginning to browse video game release dates to check for conflicts due to Grand Theft Auto IV's potential harm to the May 2, 2008 release of Iron Man.[1] The PS3 and Xbox 360 version have taken the second and fourth positions of Game Rankings' best-rated games of all time, respectively;[2] as well as being the first console game since 1999 to receive a perfect rating from IGN,[3] and the first title to receive a perfect rating from GameSpot since 2001.[4]
May 28: Ubisoft announces Beyond Good & Evil 2 during the end of Ubidays at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France, along with a teaser trailer featuring the game's first-two main characters: Pey'j and (possibly, though never focused clearly) Jade.
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June 3: Kung Fu Panda is released on Windows and Xbox 360.
December 1: National Amusements' Sumner Redstone sells his controlling stake in Midway Games to private investor Mark Thomas, for $100,000 ($0.0012 a share), and assumes $70 million of senior secured and unsecured debt.[6]
