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Cooperative video games
- Silent Hill: The ArcadeSilent Hill: The Arcade drops six friends from Portland into one of horror's most iconic fog-drenched towns, and almost none of them make it back out in one…
- Cooperative video gameA cooperative video game lets players work together as teammates, almost always against non-player character opponents rather than each other.
- StarCraft IIStarCraft II arrived on the 27th of July 2010 as one of the most anticipated sequels in gaming history. Blizzard Entertainment had spent years quietly…
- Quake (video game)Quake is a 1996 first-person shooter from id Software, and on the day it launched, only one member of the entire development team came into the office to…
- Final Fantasy VFinal Fantasy V launched in Japan in December 1992, and within a single day it sold roughly 900,000 cartridges. That opening figure was about 4.5 times the…
- Silent Hill: Book of MemoriesOn a specific birthday, the player-created protagonist receives a mysterious book that outlines their entire life. This object becomes the central mechanism…
- Doom (1993 video game)Doom, released on the 10th of December 1993, crashed a university's network before most people had even heard of it. At midnight, after thirty straight hours…
- Super Smash Bros. UltimatePlanning for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate began in December 2015, shortly after the downloadable content for the previous Nintendo 3DS and Wii U versions was…
- The Lost VikingsSilicon & Synapse began work on The Lost Vikings in 1993, drawing inspiration from the puzzle game Lemmings. The original concept involved managing hundreds…
- Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV arrived in Japan in 1991, and with it came Cecil Harvey, a dark knight who steers warships through the sky for the Kingdom of Baron.
- Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI arrived in Japanese homes on the 2nd of April, 1994, carrying a premise that broke from every rule the series had established.
- Final Fight (video game)Final Fight arrived in arcades in 1989 with a premise that could have come straight out of a Hollywood action film: a former pro wrestler turned city mayor…
- DaikatanaDaikatana arrived in May 2000 with the weight of years of broken promises behind it. A first-person shooter from Ion Storm, it had been announced in 1997 as…
- Dead or Alive (franchise)Dead or Alive began as a wager. In the mid-1990s, Tecmo was in financial trouble, and a programmer named Tomonobu Itagaki made a bet with company management…
- BloodborneBloodborne is a 2015 action role-playing game that sent players into a rotting Gothic city where the cure was worse than the disease.