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Numerous video games were released in 2011. Many awards went to games such as Batman: Arkham City , Portal 2 , The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim , The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword , Madden NFL 12 , NBA 2K12 , WWE '12 , WWE All-Stars and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception . 2011 also marked the worldwide release of the Nintendo 3DS.
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| Month | Day(s) | Event |
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| January | 6 - 9 | International Consumer Electronics Show 2011 held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA [4] |
| February | 26 | The Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo's newest handheld console, releases in Japan. [5] |
| February 28 – March 4 | Game Developers Conference 2011 held in San Francisco, California. [6] | |
| March | 11 | As a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, certain video game releases were cancelled or postponed. Additionally, several servers used for Internet gaming were shut down temporarily. |
| 11 - 13 | PAX East 2011 held in Boston, Massachusetts. [7] | |
| 25 - 31 | The Nintendo 3DS released in America, Europe and Australia. | |
| April | 20 | PlayStation Network services were suspended by Sony. The suspension lasted for 23 days. |
| May | 19 | South Korea passes a law known as the "Youth Protection Revision Act", which regulates children under the age of sixteen playing online video games. |
| June | 6 | Twitch.tv, a video game livestreaming service and website that focuses on video game content and esports is launched. |
| 7 - 9 | E3 2011 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. [8] | |
| 23 | The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, one of the best-selling video game franchises of all-time, celebrated its 20th anniversary. | |
| 27 | The Supreme Court of the United States issues their ruling on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association , declaring video games as protected free speech. | |
| August | 4 - 7 | QuakeCon 2011: The massive annual LAN party held in Dallas, Texas. |
| 15 - 17 | Game Developers Conference 2011 Europe held in Cologne, Germany. | |
| 18 - 22 | Gamescom 2011 held at Cologne, Germany | |
| 26 - 28 | PAX Prime 2011 held in Seattle, Washington. [9] | |
| September | 15–18 | Tokyo Game Show 2011 |
| 22–25 | Eurogamer Expo 2011 held in Earls Court in London, England. | |
| October | 15–16 | EB Games Expo 2011 held in Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia. |
| 21–22 | BlizzCon 2011 held in Anaheim Convention Center in California. | |
| November | 18–19 | Minecon held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Minecraft gets its full release on the 18th. |
| December | 3 | 10th anniversary of the Jak and Daxter series. [10] |
| 10 | Spike Video Game Awards. | |
| 17 | PlayStation Vita was released in Japan. | |
| 31 | Artech Studios disbanded. |
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| Month | Day | Console |
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| February | 26 | Nintendo 3DS JP |
| April | 1 | Xperia Play [13] |
Series with new installments in 2011 include Ace Combat , Alice: Madness Returns , Assassin's Creed , Batman: Arkham , Battlefield , Call of Duty , Call of Juarez , Cities XL , Crysis , Dead Space , Deus Ex , Dragon Age , Driver , Duke Nukem , Dynasty Warriors , The Elder Scrolls , F.E.A.R , Forza Motorsport , Gears of War , Infamous , Killzone , The Legend of Zelda , LittleBigPlanet , Mario Kart , Modern Combat , Mortal Kombat , MX vs. ATV , Need for Speed , Operation Flashpoint , Pokémon , Portal , Rayman , Red Faction , Red Orchestra , Resistance , Saints Row , Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , Super Mario , Total War , Tropico , Uncharted , Sonic the Hedgehog , and The Witcher .
2011 saw the introduction of several new properties, including Bastion , Dark Souls , Dead Island , Homefront , L.A. Noire , Minecraft , Rage , and Skylanders .
The list of games released in 2011 in North America.
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| Title | Date | Director | Distributor(s) | Franchise | Original game publisher | Ref. |
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| Best Player | March 13, 2011 | Damon Santostefano | Nickelodeon | — | — | [18] |
| Mortal Kombat: Legacy | April 11, 2011 | Kevin Tancharoen | Machinima, Inc. | Mortal Kombat | Midway Games | [19] |
| Victini and Reshiram/Victini and Zekrom | July 16, 2011 | Kunihiko Yuyama | Toho | Pokémon | Game Freak | [20] |
| Tekken: Blood Vengeance | July 26, 2011 | Yōichi Mōri | Asmik Ace | Tekken | Bandai Namco | [21] |
| Dragon Age: Redemption | October 10, 2011 | Peter Winther | — | Dragon Age | BioWare | [22] |
| Assassin's Creed: Embers | November 15, 2011 | Laurent Bernier | Ubisoft | Assassin's Creed | Ubisoft | [23] |
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