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  • Alan Wake 2Alan Wake 2 cost a reported 70 million euros, which makes it one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland. Remedy Entertainment developed the 2023 survival horror game, and Epic Games Publishing released it. Its…
  • 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…
  • Snatcher (video game)Snatcher's story was cut from five acts to two by memory limits. Hideo Kojima's 1988 game ends on a cliffhanger.
  • 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…
  • L.A. NoireL.A. Noire, a game from 2011 set in Los Angeles in 1947, became the first video game honoured as an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. Team Bondi developed it, and Rockstar Games published it. Players follow a young police…
  • Persona 4Persona 4 is a 2008 role-playing game from the Japanese developer Atlus, and it opens on a puzzle that sounds like a ghost story. In a small rural town, bodies are found dangling from television antennas, and no one can say what killed…
  • Sleeping Dogs (video game)Sleeping Dogs, a 2012 action game set in contemporary Hong Kong, almost never reached a single player. On the 9th of February 2011, the publisher Activision announced that it was cancelling the project, which at that point carried the…
  • Heavy RainHeavy Rain, the 2010 video game from the studio Quantic Dream, grew out of a scare in a shopping mall. Its writer and director, David Cage, briefly lost track of his son there. The episode made him ask himself "what it means to love your…
  • DanganronpaDanganronpa is a Japanese video game franchise in which a robotic teddy bear named Monokuma forces apparent high-school students to kill one another. Kazutaka Kodaka created the series. Spike Chunsoft, formerly known as Spike, develops and…
  • Detroit: Become HumanDetroit: Become Human, an adventure game from the studio Quantic Dream, had sold 15 million units by January 2026. That makes it the best-selling game the studio has ever made. Sony Interactive Entertainment published it in 2018. Its…
  • Disco ElysiumA man wakes in a trashed hostel room in the district of Martinaise, with a savage hangover and no memory of who he is. He does not know his name, his profession, or anything about the world beyond the door. This is how Disco Elysium…

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