Curated playlist
PlayStation 5 games
- 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. Released in March 2022, this action role-playing game celebrates the Final Fantasy series' 35th…
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes surpassed $500,000 on Kickstarter in just three to four hours on the 27th of July, 2020. Its lead developer, Yoshitaka Murayama, had built his reputation on a celebrated series at a different company…
- Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionMetal Gear video game compilation
- Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)Silent Hill 2, a 2024 remake of the 2001 survival horror game, begins with an impossible letter. James Sunderland's wife Mary died three years earlier from a degenerative disease. Yet a letter in her hand arrives, claiming she is waiting…
- 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 final Lineage" before a single player had logged in. That phrase carries weight…
- Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's EdgeStar Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge arrived on the 19th of November, 2020, built for Oculus Quest headsets. ILMxLab designed the game's graphics. Players stepped into the role of a droid mechanic on the planet Batuu, caught between…
- 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. Zack Fair, a young member of the elite military force SOLDIER, would carry the entire weight of…
- 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 upload the files. That person was John Romero, who had fought harder than anyone to…
- 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. By June 2023, the number had climbed past sixty million. No other single-player…
- 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. Square Enix had spent years insisting no remake was in development. The question that hung over the gaming world…
- 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. Square Enix chose that date deliberately for a game that had been in active development…
- Final Fantasy XVIFinal Fantasy XVI arrived on the 22nd of June 2023, carrying the weight of a franchise that had defined Japanese role-playing games for nearly four decades. The sixteenth mainline entry in one of gaming's most storied series, it made an…
- 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 of testing, the five-person team at id Software uploaded the first episode to an…
- 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 players inside an abandoned hospital crawling with creatures they had no name…
- 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. It was the fastest-selling game Bandai Namco had ever published, the second-bestselling game of…
- Baldur's Gate 3Baldur's Gate 3 reached players on the 3rd of August 2023, ending a development that had nearly not started at all. Wizards of the Coast, the publisher behind Dungeons and Dragons, turned down Larian Studios' first request to make the game…
- 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 Yoichi Wada stood up and admitted it had "greatly damaged" the Final Fantasy…
- 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. Behaviour Interactive, the Canadian studio behind it, built its entire design around that imbalance.…
- Silent Hill fSilent Hill f opens in Ebisugaoka, a fictional 1960s Japanese town, where fog rolls in carrying red spider lilies that kill on contact. In its first day of sale on the 25th of September 2025, the game moved over one million copies. That…
- 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 Entertainment toward a shooter about a smuggler or bounty hunter. Game director Stig…
- Astro BotBy the 9th of April, 2025, Astro Bot had surpassed It Takes Two to become the most awarded platformer game of all time. Its total reached 195 Game of the Year nominations and wins. That count began on the 6th of September, 2024, when the…
- 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 encountered in a Japanese role-playing game. At its center stood Ramza Beoulve, a…
- 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 launch, Ubisoft confirmed over 1.8 million players. By February 2022, the game had…
- 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. But the road to that milestone was anything but smooth. The game's original concept,…