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2012 video games

  • Street Fighter X Mega ManStreet Fighter X Mega Man began in a Singaporean fan's bedroom. One million people had downloaded it by March 3, 2013.
  • Silent Hill HD CollectionKonami had not kept the final source code for Silent Hill 2 and 3. That left the remaster team fixing old bugs again.
  • Gensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no TokiGensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki sends three heroes back a hundred years. A monster wakes every century.
  • Assassin's Creed IIIAssassin's Creed III went on sale in North America on the 30th of October 2012 with a secret that its own advertising kept from players. Every promotion showed Connor, a half-Mohawk Assassin. The game itself, however, opened with Haytham…
  • The Walking Dead (video game)The Walking Dead, a 2012 episodic graphic adventure from Telltale Games, begins with a convicted criminal named Lee Everett in the back of a police car. On the first day of an outbreak, the car strikes a walker and crashes. Dave Fennoy…
  • Silent Hill: Book of MemoriesIn Silent Hill: Book of Memories, a book appears on your birthday and you start rewriting your life.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops IICall of Duty: Black Ops II took in more than $500 million in the first 24 hours after it went on sale. That figure made the 2012 first-person shooter the largest entertainment launch of all time. The record stood until Grand Theft Auto V…
  • Puella Magi Madoka MagicaPuella Magi Madoka Magica hid its dark story behind cute, pastel marketing on purpose.
  • Project X ZoneProject X Zone sold more than ten times what its publisher expected in the West.
  • Street Fighter X TekkenStreet Fighter X Tekken shipped with 12 paid characters already on the disc. Capcom said it locked them to save space.
  • Dragon's DogmaCapcom executives doubted Dragon's Dogma, the first open-world game ever proposed for a Capcom title.
  • Bravely DefaultThe team behind Bravely Default never expected the 3DS game to leave Japan. It sold a million copies by July 2014.
  • Silent Hill: DownpourSilent Hill: Downpour opens with a prison shower murder by its own hero. The developers made him guilty on purpose.

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