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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 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…
- 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 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…
- 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 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…
- 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 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: InfinitePlayers control two characters instead of three in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. This change replaced the traditional three-on-three format used since 1996's…
- 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 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…
- Star Wars: SquadronsPlayers sit inside the cockpit of a starfighter on the 2nd of October 2020. The screen displays vital information about weaponry and shields directly in…
- 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 PainIn February 2012, a website called Development Without Borders began recruiting staff for a new Metal Gear title. The site promised high-end consoles and the…
- 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 3On the 20th of July 2011, Capcom announced an updated version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds at San Diego Comic-Con.
- 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 HonorThe land of Heathmoor lies in ruins after a natural catastrophe pits the most fearsome warriors against one another. A bloodthirsty warlord named Apollyon…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- P.T. (video game)On the 12th of August 2014, a digital file appeared on the PlayStation Network that would change horror gaming forever. Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro…
- 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…
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)Electronic Arts announced the development of Star Wars Battlefront II on the 10th of May 2016. DICE led the project while Motive Studios handled the…
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderStig Asmussen joined Respawn Entertainment in 2014 after leaving Sony's Santa Monica Studio. He led a second development team while the first group worked on…
- 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 ValhallaIn 873 AD, political pressures in Norway prompt Eivor Varinsdottir and her adoptive older brother Sigurd Styrbjornsson to lead their clan of Vikings to…
- 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.