Curated playlist
Beat 'em ups
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles MoralesMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a 2020 superhero game set in a Manhattan buried under Christmas snow. Its hero is a young Spider-Man who still doubts that he can wear the mask as well as the man who trained him. Around him, his new…
- Batman: Arkham AsylumBatman: Arkham Asylum, the 2009 game from Rocksteady Studios, once kept a single developer busy for two years on one garment, Batman's cape. Eidos president Ian Livingstone said the job involved more than 700 animations and sound effects,…
- Yakuza (franchise)By 2024, Sega reported that the Yakuza series, known in Japan as Like a Dragon, had sold a combined 27.7 million units since its debut in 2005. Those buyers were playing games about organized crime. In the same games they could also sing…
- Marvel's Spider-Man (video game)Marvel's Spider-Man, released for the PlayStation 4 on the 7th of September 2018, sold 3.3 million units in its first three days. That figure includes copies bundled with consoles. It made the game the fastest-selling first-party release…
- Marvel's Spider-ManMarvel's Spider-Man, a series of superhero action-adventure games from Insomniac Games, began with a taunt. In 2014, Marvel Games vice president Jay Ong sat across from executives at Activision, the publisher whose Marvel licence was about…
- Batman: Arkham CityThe blueprints for Batman: Arkham City were hidden in a secret room inside the warden's office of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the game that came before it. Rocksteady Studios planted those hints in the 2009 original while that game was still…
- Batman: Arkham KnightBatman: Arkham Knight is a 2015 action-adventure game made by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It opens on Halloween night, as Gotham City's six million civilians are evacuated. Only criminals…
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sold more than 2.5 million copies in its first 24 hours, the fastest start of any game from PlayStation Studios. Insomniac Games made the action-adventure for Sony Interactive Entertainment, and it reached the…
- Batman: Arkham OriginsBatman: Arkham Origins, a 2013 action-adventure game, begins on a snowy Christmas Eve in Gotham City with a price on one man's head: fifty million dollars. Eight professional killers are on their way to collect it. The man who posted the…
- Bully (video game)Bully, a 2006 action-adventure game from Rockstar Vancouver and Rockstar Games, begins with a boy who has already been expelled from seven schools. His name is James Hopkins, known as Jimmy, he is 15 years old, and he is about to be left…