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Nintendo Network games

  • Assassin's Creed IIIAssassin's Creed III went on sale in North America on the 30th of October 2012 with a secret that its own advertising kept from players. Every promotion showed Connor, a half-Mohawk Assassin. The game itself, however, opened with Haytham…
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagAssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the sixth major installment in its series, hands the player a stolen ship and a Welsh pirate named Edward Kenway. Early in the story, Edward captures a brig called the Jackdaw from a Spanish fleet and makes…
  • Super Street Fighter IVSuper Street Fighter IV was called the last of its series, then got two more versions.
  • Resident Evil: RevelationsResident Evil: Revelations is a 2012 survival horror game from Capcom, made for the Nintendo 3DS. It opens with agent Jill Valentine searching an abandoned cruise ship, the Queen Zenobia, for her missing colleague Chris Redfield. Chris…
  • 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.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops IICall of Duty: Black Ops II took in more than $500 million in the first 24 hours after it went on sale. That figure made the 2012 first-person shooter the largest entertainment launch of all time. The record stood until Grand Theft Auto V…
  • Project X ZoneProject X Zone sold more than ten times what its publisher expected in the West.
  • MinecraftMinecraft, the 2011 sandbox game from the Swedish company Mojang Studios, tells its only story through a poem of roughly 1,500 words. The End Poem was written by the Irish novelist Julian Gough. It scrolls past in about nine minutes when a…
  • Call of Duty: GhostsWithin 24 hours of Call of Duty: Ghosts reaching stores in November 2013, Activision had shipped $1 billion worth of copies to retailers. The publisher still counted the game as a letdown. Ghosts was the tenth major Call of Duty release…
  • TerrariaTerraria sold more than 50,000 copies on its first day in 2011, and 432,000 in its first month. By May 2026 the total had passed 70 million, placing it among the best-selling video games of all time. The game itself looks modest. It is a…
  • Tomodachi LifeTomodachi Life, a 2013 Nintendo 3DS game, asks its player to do almost nothing except watch. Tiny customizable avatars called Miis live together on an island. They make friends, quarrel, fall in love and ask for small favors, while the…
  • Bravely DefaultThe team behind Bravely Default never expected the 3DS game to leave Japan. It sold a million copies by July 2014.
  • Pokémon X and YPokémon X and Pokémon Y, released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013, sold more than four million copies worldwide in one weekend. That made them the fastest-selling games the handheld had ever seen. Game Freak developed the pair, and The…
  • Dragon Quest VIIDragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past sold 3.57 million copies in Japan within 17 days of going on sale in 2000. Enix published it for the original PlayStation, as one more entry in a role-playing series that Yuji Horii has…

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