In anticipation of PlayStation's launch Sony Interactive Studios America had made the decision to focus primarily on console titles under the banner 989 Studios while spinning off its sole computer title, EverQuest, which was ready to launch, to a new computer game division named Redeye ( renamed Verant Interactive ).

The console faced several problems at launch.

In addition, a major launch game had been rushed ; the 32X version of Doom was missing ten levels present on the PC version, though three of those levels ( five on the SNES ) were not present in other console ports of Doom either.

Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

Along with Pilotwings 64, it was one of the launch titles for the console.

Had the console been released, it would have cost US $ 299 and would have had 30 games available at launch.

It cost US $ 599 on launch, and while touted as a cheap computer, the system, in reality, was a video game console.

Pilotwings 64 is a follow-up to Pilotwings for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( SNES ), which was a North American launch game for its respective console in 1991.

After their briefing time at E3 2010, Nintendo announced a sequel titled Pilotwings Resort for the Nintendo 3DS, which was released as a launch title for the handheld console.

The console was released in North America with a midnight launch event at Universal CityWalk EB Games in Los Angeles, California.

The console was launched quietly in Japan compared to the North America launch ; one source cites the cold weather as the reason.

The first title in the franchise, Project Gotham Racing, is an Xbox launch title that quickly became the second best-selling game for the console after Halo: Combat Evolved.

Sega was also hurt by a surprise four-month-early U. S. launch of their console.

GamesMaster was first broadcast in 1992, during the fourth ( 16-bit ) console generation-after the launch of the Mega Drive, but before the SNES.

The Dreamcast titled Mortal Kombat Gold, was released on September 9, 1999 on North America and on October 14, 1999 on Europe, as a launch title for the console in both regions.

Sega was also hurt by the plan to have a surprise four month early US launch of their console.

The Xbox version of XBMC also had the ability to launch console games, and homebrew applications such as emulators.

Despite this, the TurboGrafx suffered from poor sales, and the Bonk mascot was eventually retired in 1992 ( with the launch of TTi's new TurboDuo console ), replaced by Air Zonk ( the official mascot of the Duo ).

Neither game made it out for Nintendo 64's launch, however, primarily because the arcade versions of both games were done on hardware that was very different and somewhat more powerful than the console.

The game was ported to Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) console in 1983 as one of the system's three launch titles ; the same version was a launch title for the Famicom's North American version, the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

The game was a launch release for the Game. com handheld console.

The American Embassy in Bangui again temporarily suspended operations on November 2, 2002 in response to security concerns raised by the October 2002 launch of François Bozizé's 2003 military coup.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

The Explorer program was later reestablished to catch up with the Soviet Union after that nation's launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.

Mussolini, in October 1940, used his Albanian base to launch an attack on Greece, which led to the defeat of the Italian forces and the Greek occupation of Southern Albania in what was seen by the Greeks as the liberation of Northern Epirus.

It was the same R-7 launch vehicle that placed the first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik, on 4 October 1957.

In October 1940, Gandhi and Nehru, abandoning their original stand of supporting Britain, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.

On 26 October 2010 the institution announced plans to launch a publication house, named Jadavpur University Press.

The trawling scan, in Carroll's research launch Rangitea, took place in October.

According to Russian sources, the official decision to launch Sputnik 2 was made on October 10 or 12, leaving the team only four weeks to design and build the spacecraft.

In October 2008 Moldcell became the first carrier in Moldova to launch a 3G network, currently all carriers provide 3G services throughout the country.

The spacecraft performed all programmed activities successfully and returned useful data from launch until 22: 05: 07 UT on October 1, 1965, when the distance from Earth ( 309. 2 million km ) and the antenna orientation temporarily halted signal acquisition.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

Realizing what is actually happening, he attempts to ignite a missile rocket motor inside a launch tube so as to destroy the Red October.

* October 10 – R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.

* October 8 – Vietnam War – Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

* October 24 – A large rocket explodes on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, killing at least 90 people of the Soviet space program.

On 25 October 2005 it was announced that the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai language radio services would end by March 2006 in order to finance the launch of an Arabic and Persian language TV news channel in 2007.

* New Scientist: Huge ' launch ring ' to fling satellites into orbit — article about research into a circular mass driver ( October 2006 )

The first successful launch of a V-2 was on October 3, 1942 and began operation on September 6, 1944 against Paris, followed by an attack on London two days later.

On October 31, 2006, NASA announced approval of the launch of the space shuttle, Atlantis, the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for August 28, 2008.

In the first, beginning in October 1154 his plan was to launch a campaign against the Normans under King William I of Sicily.

A preview release of NeXTSTEP ( version 0. 8 ) was shown at the launch of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988.

) In October, Newton-John helped launch the www. liv. com website and teamed with fitness franchise Curves to distribute one million Liv-Aid breast self-examination aids for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The first launch from the Guiana space centre took place on 21 October 2011.