A detailed list was compiled by the editors of the PC Gamer portal.
In honor of its 30th anniversary, PC Gamer decided to make a list the most important games and events from 1993 to 2023. Here’s what’s included:
- Doom release – December 1993
- First E3 – June 1995
- Quake release – June 1996
- Ultima Online release – September 1997
- Fallout release – October 1997
- Release of Voodoo2 graphics accelerators – March 1998
- StarCraft release – March 1998
- Release of Thief: The Dark Project – December 1998
- Release of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings – September 1999
- The emergence of the GameMaker engine – November 1999
- Deus Ex release – June 2000
- The emergence of Windows XP – August 2001
- Battlefield 1942 release – September 2002
- Release of EVE Online — May 2003
- Steam launch – September 2003
- Call of Duty release – October 2003
- Half-Life 2 release – November 2004
- World of Warcraft release – November 2004
- Start of sales of paid armor for horses in Oblivion – April 2006
- Release of Dwarf Fortress — August 2006
- Premiere of the collection The Orange Box — October 2007
- Release of Plants vs Zombies — May 2009
- The first Japanese game (Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale) was released on Steam — September 2010
- Minecraft release — November 2011
- Release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — November 2011
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown released — October 2012
- Start of the early access program on Steam – March 2013
- Release of Oculus Rift DK1 – March 2013
- Release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — May 2015
- Start of sales of the first Valve devices — November 2015
- Release of PUBG: Battlegrounds — December 2017
- GeForce RTX 2080 sales start — September 2018
- Disco Elysium release — October 2019
- Beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic — January 2020
- Valheim release — February 2021
- Steam Deck sales start — March 2022
- Baldur’s Gate 3 release — August 2023
- Release of patch 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077 — September 2023
