Curated playlist
Esports games
- Heroes of the StormIn Heroes of the Storm, every player on a team levels up together. Fallen minions feed one shared team pool.
- League of LegendsLeague of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game from Riot Games. Its 2019 World Championship drew more than 100 million unique viewers. That same year, the game regularly reached eight million players online at the same moment.…
- Dota 2A month before its official launch in 2013, Dota 2 already had nearly 330,000 people playing at the same moment on Steam. That crowd outnumbered the players in the rest of the platform's top ten games combined. Dota 2 is a Valve game in…
- Halo (franchise)Halo is a military science fiction franchise, and in 1997 its earliest form went by a codename its own programmer was too embarrassed to say aloud. Bungie's team first called the project "Monkey Nuts." Jason Jones could not bring himself…
- FIFA (video game series)FIFA 12 sold more than 3.2 million copies in its first week, and it generated over $186 million at retail. That earned it the record for the fastest-selling sports game ever. FIFA is a football simulation franchise, and Guinness World…
- PUBG: BattlegroundsPUBG: Battlegrounds, a battle royale video game from 2017, once had 2,279,084 people playing it on Steam at the same moment. It reached that peak while still officially unfinished, listed as an early access title. The game began as a…
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UA 2015 Smash fan poll kept its top winners secret until October 2021. Sora and Banjo and Kazooie led the vote.
- Super Smash Bros. UltimateSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate began with a dying wish from Nintendo's president. It was Satoru Iwata's last request.
- OverwatchOverwatch was built from the pieces of a cancelled game called Titan.
- 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…
- Age of MythologyAge of Mythology dropped real history for Zeus, Ra and Odin. Ensemble Studios feared becoming stale and repetitive.
- Dead or Alive (franchise)A programmer's bet with his bosses launched the Dead or Alive fighting games.