Curated playlist

Cooperative video games

Silent Hill: The ArcadeSilent Hill: The Arcade turns the horror series into a light-gun shooter. Players blast through the fog on a fixed rail.
Cooperative video gameThe first cooperative video game was a tennis spin-off. Atari's Pong Doubles came out in 1973.
StarCraft IIIn December 2018, AlphaStar became the first program to beat pro StarCraft II players. Its first win was 5-0.
Quake (video game)Only one developer came in to upload Quake on launch day. That was John Romero, who left id Software soon after.
Final Fantasy VJapan asked Square not to release Final Fantasy V on a school day.
Silent Hill: Book of MemoriesIn Silent Hill: Book of Memories, a book appears on your birthday and you start rewriting your life.
Assassin's Creed UnityIn the streets of Assassin's Creed Unity, a single crowd can hold up to 1000 individual characters. Each one acts on its own and reacts to its neighbors and to the player. Ubisoft Montreal built that spectacle for its 2014 entry in the…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reached stores on the 10th of November 2009, and within 24 hours it had sold roughly 4.7 million copies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Those sales brought in $310 million. At the time, that made…
Resident Evil 5In May 2026, Capcom's financial release reported that Resident Evil 5 had sold 19.01 million copies. That figure made this 2009 third-person shooter the best-selling game in the Resident Evil series. Capcom developed and published it, and…
Doom (1993 video game)Doom crashed a university network the night it was released in 1993. Ten thousand people tried to download it at once.
Super Smash Bros. UltimateSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate began with a dying wish from Nintendo's president. It was Satoru Iwata's last request.
Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black Ops sold more than 5.6 million copies within 24 hours of going on sale in November 2010. That total beat the record set by Modern Warfare 2 by roughly 2.3 million copies. Treyarch built the game and Activision published…
The Lost VikingsThe Lost Vikings began with hundreds of tiny Vikings, until TV screens could not show them.
It Takes Two (video game)It Takes Two, a 2021 adventure from Hazelight Studios, is a video game that nobody can finish alone. It has no single-player option. Every player needs a partner, either sitting nearby or connected online, and the story simply will not…
World of WarcraftVice summed up World of Warcraft in 2019 with a single sentence. "Most people," it wrote, "know someone who's said they were 'addicted' to World of Warcraft." The game came from Blizzard Entertainment, which released it for Windows and…
Halo: Combat EvolvedHalo: Combat Evolved reached shops on the 15th of November 2001, the same day as Microsoft's first game console, the Xbox. Bungie built it, and Microsoft Game Studios published it. A reviewer at Edge magazine called it "the most important…
Super Smash Bros.Super Smash Bros. is a series of platform fighting games published by Nintendo, and it began as a prototype called Dragon King: The Fighting Game. Only three people built that prototype. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the series, handled…
Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV began with a Formula One race. Hiroyuki Ito saw cars pass at different speeds and got an idea.
Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
Final Fight (video game)Final Fight, Capcom's arcade brawler, began as Street Fighter '89. Operators said the name was misleading.
Call of Duty: World at WarCall of Duty: World at War had sold 15.7 million copies by November 2013. That total belongs to a World War II shooter made by the studio Treyarch and released in 2008 for PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360, and Wii. Its campaign sent…
Guitar HeroGuitar Hero is a series of rhythm games that handed players a plastic, guitar-shaped controller and challenged them to play along with rock songs. The first game appeared in 2005. Over its lifetime the series sold more than 25 million…
Genshin ImpactGenshin Impact, a 2020 action role-playing game from the Chinese studio miHoYo, caused an uproar before anyone could play it. At the ChinaJoy convention in 2019, fans of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gave the Sony booth the…
DaikatanaDaikatana sold only 40,351 copies in the United States through September 2000. Forecasts had once hoped for 2.5 million.
Dead or Alive (franchise)A programmer's bet with his bosses launched the Dead or Alive fighting games.
Donkey Kong BananzaDonkey Kong Bananza gives a gorilla one job: dig down, and smash whatever gets in the way. Nintendo EPD developed the 2025 platform game for the Nintendo Switch 2, and its landscapes crumble under nearly every punch, slap and throw. The…
BloodborneIn the game Bloodborne, the miracle cure that heals almost any ailment slowly turns people into beasts.
Super Mario GalaxySuper Mario Galaxy is a Nintendo platform game in which Mario runs around tiny worlds shaped like ice cream and apples. It appeared on the Wii, and the people building it were not all sure the idea would work. Some feared the technology…
Star CitizenOn the 10th of October 2012, the website built to launch Star Citizen crashed in the middle of the game's announcement at GDC. By May 2026, combined crowdfunding and early access sales for the project had passed US$1 billion. That sum…