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PlayStation 4 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…
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionStreet Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection packed twelve separate arcade fighting games onto one disc, thirteen if you owned a Nintendo Switch.
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy OriginStranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin opens not with a hero, but with a man named Jack who wants only one thing: to destroy Chaos.
- Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition reached three million downloads within its first month on the market. That number turned a stripped-down mobile spinoff into…
- 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…
- Dissidia Final Fantasy NTDissidia Final Fantasy NT began not on a home console but in a Japanese arcade. At the Japan Amusement Expo trade show in Chiba in February 2015, Square Enix…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos arrived in arcades in 2003 as the dream matchup fans of two rival fighting game giants had been waiting for.
- 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 VIICrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII arrived in 2007 with an unusual burden: explaining one of gaming's most beloved tragedies before it happened.
- 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 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…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: InfiniteMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is a 2017 crossover fighting game built by Capcom. It sends heroes and villains from the Marvel Comics universe up against…
- 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.
- Super Star WarsSuper Star Wars arrived on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, and it asked a simple question: what if you could fight your way through a galaxy…
- 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 VII RemakeFinal Fantasy VII Remake arrived on the 10th of April 2020, nearly a quarter century after the game it set out to reimagine.
- Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD RemasterFinal Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster arrived in 2013 as something more than a polish job on two beloved games. It raised a question that fans had been quietly…
- Star Wars: SquadronsStar Wars: Squadrons begins with an act of refusal. Captain Lindon Javes of the Imperial Navy receives orders from Commodore Rae Sloane to eliminate a convoy…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arrived in stores on the 15th of November 2011, less than nine months after the game it was based on had launched.
- Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)Star Wars Battlefront, released in November 2015, arrived as one of the most anticipated games in the history of the franchise.
- For HonorFor Honor drops players into third-person melee duels as a Knight, a Viking, a Samurai, a Wu-lin warrior, or a member of a fifth faction called the…
- The Lost VikingsThe Lost Vikings arrived in 1993 as a puzzle-platform game from a studio that would later become one of the most recognizable names in gaming.
- Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceSekiro: Shadows Die Twice arrived on the 22nd of March 2019 and drew over 108,000 simultaneous players on Steam within hours of launch.
- 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.
- 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 XIVFinal Fantasy XIV had already failed once. In September 2010, Square Enix released an online game that was so broken, so poorly received, that then-President…
- 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 DaylightDead by Daylight puts four Survivors in the woods against one Killer, all of them serving a hostile presence the game calls the Entity.
- P.T. (video game)P.T. opens with a whisper in the dark: 'Watch out. The gap in the door... it's a separate reality. The only me is me. Are you sure the only you is you?' The…
- Fighting EX LayerFighting EX Layer is a 2018 fighting video game built and published by the Japanese studio Arika. On April Fools' Day in 2017, Arika posted online footage of…
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)Star Wars Battlefront II arrived in 2017, the fourth mainline entry in the Battlefront series and a sequel to DICE's 2015 reboot of the franchise.
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order almost starred a smuggler. Lucasfilm considered the Jedi a "sacred" part of its franchise and pushed developer Respawn…
- 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…
- 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…
- BloodborneBloodborne is a 2015 action role-playing game that sent players into a rotting Gothic city where the cure was worse than the disease.
- Diablo IVDiablo IV crossed one billion dollars in total revenue by September 2024, making it one of the fastest commercial rises in the history of its genre.