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Nintendo Switch games
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 arrived in May 2025 as a digital and physical compilation of eight distinct arcade titles. The collection bridges the gap…
- Capcom Fighting CollectionCapcom released a compilation containing ten arcade games in June 2022. The collection features nine fighting titles and one puzzle game originally developed…
- Final Fantasy Legend IIFinal Fantasy Legend II shipped in Japan on the 14th of December 1990, carrying a name that was, in its home country, entirely different: SaGa 2: Hihou…
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionThe collection arrived in May 2018 to mark thirty years of the Street Fighter series. Digital Eclipse built a package containing twelve arcade versions for…
- Ultra Street Fighter IIOn the 26th of May 2017, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers launched on the Nintendo Switch. This release marked a specific moment in video game…
- SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumSNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium arrived in 1999 as something that fighting game fans had argued about in arcades for years: which company's…
- Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionSquare Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy XV using the Unity engine to fit mobile devices. The original game relied on the in-house Luminous Engine for its complex…
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesYoshitaka Murayama directed the original Suikoden games while working at Konami. He left that company in 2002 just before Suikoden III arrived on shelves.
- Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionKonami announced the first volume of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection in May 2023. This announcement came during a PlayStation Showcase event, occurring…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK Playmore released SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos in 2003 for the Neo Geo arcade platform. The game arrived as the third entry in a crossover series between…
- Lineage WLineage W arrived on the 4th of November 2021, not with a quiet launch but with a declaration. NCSoft's chief creative officer, Taek Jin Kim, called it "the…
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsIn December 2013, Capcom announced that the digital releases of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 were to be delisted due to the expiration of their character…
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VIISeven years before the events of 1997, a young man named Zack Fair stood in the ruins of Wutai. He wore the blue uniform of SOLDIER and carried a heavy…
- 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 Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III arrived in Japanese stores on the 13th of December, 1991, carrying a secret: in Japan it was called SaGa 3: Jikuu no Hasha, a title…
- 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…
- Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III launched on the 27th of April, 1990, and within its first week sold 500,000 copies in Japan. By March 2003, that figure had reached 1.4…
- The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped seven million units in its first week of release, and within two years had crossed twenty million sold. That was 2011.
- Final Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VII arrived in Japan on the 31st of January, 1997, and within three days had sold over two million copies. That pace was not an accident.
- Final Fantasy IXFinal Fantasy IX arrived on the PlayStation in 2000 carrying a quiet act of rebellion. While its two immediate predecessors had chased a sleeker, more…
- Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD RemasterTidus stands atop a cliff overlooking the city of Zanarkand, watching the sky turn from blue to gray as Sin approaches. The creature known as Sin has been…
- 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…
- Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II launched on the 17th of December 1988, almost exactly one year after the original game, and Square's small team of around ten people had…
- Final Fantasy XIIFinal Fantasy XII arrived in March 2006 carrying five years of development behind it, a record that once earned it a Guinness World Record for longest…
- Dementium: The WardDementium: The Ward dropped on Halloween 2007, the last day of October, and the timing was no accident. A survival horror game for the Nintendo DS, it placed…
- Star Wars: The Force UnleashedGame planning began in the summer of 2004 when a small group of about six developers started with a clean slate. They spent more than a year brainstorming…
- 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…
- Fate/stay nightFate/Stay Night began not as a game but as a story Kinoko Nasu wrote in college with no particular destination in mind. He only completed what would become…
- Final Fantasy (video game)Final Fantasy arrived in Japan in 1987 as a last-ditch effort by a company that nearly did not survive to publish it. Square was threatened with bankruptcy.
- 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 Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy VIII sold 2.21 million copies on its first day of release in Japan, grossing the equivalent of $151 million in a single day.
- Dead by DaylightA young woman named Nea Karlsson stands in the dim light of a hospital ward, clutching a toolbox. She is one of four people trapped inside a nightmare…
- Fighting EX LayerArika released a trailer for an untitled 3D fighting game prototype on the 1st of April 2017. Staff members had been working with Unreal Engine 4 to create…
- Dragon's DogmaDragon's Dogma arrived in 2012 carrying a question its director had been holding since the year 2000: could a Japanese studio build a Western-style…
- Final Fantasy TacticsFinal Fantasy Tactics arrived in Japan on the 20th of June 1997, bundled with a demo disc for SaGa Frontier, and it told a story most players had never…
- The Final Fantasy LegendThe Final Fantasy Legend arrived on Game Boy in December 1989, carrying a name it had not been born with. In Japan it launched as Makai Toushi Sa·Ga, the…