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Open-world video games
- Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed began as a game about a prince who wasn't a prince. In the early 2000s, Ubisoft Montreal set out to make a sequel to Prince of Persia: The…
- Grand Theft AutoGrand Theft Auto, the action-adventure series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly, takes its name from a term for motor vehicle theft in the United States.
- 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 VII RebirthFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth landed on the PlayStation 5 on the 29th of February 2024 - one of the first major video game releases to arrive on Leap Day.
- Final Fantasy XIII-2Final Fantasy XIII-2 arrived in Japanese stores on the 15th of December 2011, carrying an unusual burden: it was designed from the start as an answer to…
- Final Fantasy XVFinal Fantasy XV shipped five million units in its first twenty-four hours, a figure Square Enix said allowed the game to break even on development costs…
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIIILightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII opens on a brutal countdown: thirteen days until the world ends, and only one person to save every soul in it.
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain arrived on the 1st of September 2015 and immediately broke records. On its opening day alone, the game grossed US$179…
- 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…
- The Elder ScrollsThe Elder Scrolls began its life as a medieval gladiator game that nobody expected to succeed. In 1994, when Bethesda's small team told the developers of…
- Elden RingElden Ring, a 2022 action role-playing game from the Japanese developer FromSoftware, sold 13.4 million copies in its first five weeks alone.
- 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…
- Ultima (series)Ultima is a series of open world fantasy role-playing games from Origin Systems, created by Richard Garriott, and it sold over two million copies by 1997.
- Assassin's Creed ValhallaAssassin's Creed Valhalla sold more copies in its first week than any game in the franchise had ever managed. On the 17th of November 2020, one week after…