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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.
- 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…
- Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)Bloober Team announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Konami in June 2021. This deal involved jointly developing selected contents and exchanging…
- 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…
- Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's EdgeThe Oculus Quest systems received a new virtual reality experience on the 19th of November 2020. ILMxLab designed the graphics for this first-person shooter…
- 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…
- 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 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 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 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Baldur's Gate 3Larian Studios began work on Baldur's Gate 3 in 2017, following a six-year development cycle that stretched until the game's full release in August 2023.
- 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…
- 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.
- Silent Hill fThe year is 1960. A high school student named Hinako Shimizu stands in the center of a rural Japanese town called Ebisugaoka.
- 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…
- Astro BotTeam Asobi began work on Astro Bot almost immediately after finishing Astro's Playroom in 2020. The project took roughly three years to complete with a…
- 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…
- 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.