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Action-adventure games

  • Action-adventure gameAction-adventure games occupy a peculiar middle ground in the history of video games. They are too fast for pure adventure fans and too thoughtful for…
  • Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed began as a game about a prince who wasn't a prince. In the early 2000s, Ubisoft Montreal set out to make a sequel to Prince of Persia: The…
  • Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)Konami released Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation in 1998. The game directed by Hideo Kojima required players to navigate a nuclear weapons facility…
  • Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionKonami announced the first volume of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection in May 2023. This announcement came during a PlayStation Showcase event, occurring…
  • Metal Gear Solid: The Twin SnakesNintendo of America announced the remake in 2003. Silicon Knights would develop the game under guidance from Hideo Kojima and Shigeru Miyamoto.
  • Metal Gear (video game)Metal Gear arrived on the MSX2 home computer on the 13th of July, 1987, and almost nobody outside Japan noticed at first. It was a game about hiding.
  • Grand Theft AutoGrand Theft Auto, the action-adventure series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly, takes its name from a term for motor vehicle theft in the United States.
  • The Legend of ZeldaThe Legend of Zelda first reached players in Japan in February 1986, arriving on the Famicom Disk System as something few had seen before: a game with no…
  • Star Wars: Shadows of the EmpireLucasfilm publishing director Lucy Autrey Wilson met with Bantam editor Lou Aronica in 1994 to discuss future publications.
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain arrived on the 1st of September 2015 and immediately broke records. On its opening day alone, the game grossed US$179…
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyHideo Kojima completed his original design document for the game in January 1999. The Japanese document was published by Konami in 2002 and translated into…
  • Devil May CryDevil May Cry began life as a mistake. Hideki Kamiya was developing a new entry in the Resident Evil series when his prototype drifted so far from survival…
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceSekiro: Shadows Die Twice arrived on the 22nd of March 2019 and drew over 108,000 simultaneous players on Steam within hours of launch.
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter CellTom Clancy's Splinter Cell arrived in 2002 with a premise that felt genuinely different: you were not meant to be seen. Where most action games rewarded…
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid SnakeMetal Gear 2: Solid Snake sat at the No. 1 spot on MSX Magazine's chart of Japan's 30 best-selling MSX games in October 1990.
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderStig Asmussen joined Respawn Entertainment in 2014 after leaving Sony's Santa Monica Studio. He led a second development team while the first group worked on…
  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed IIStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II dropped into players' hands on the 26th of October 2010, and immediately posed an uncomfortable question: what does it mean…