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Sequel video games
- Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)Konami released Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation in 1998. The game directed by Hideo Kojima required players to navigate a nuclear weapons facility…
- Suikoden TacticsKonami released Suikoden Tactics in Japan and North America during late 2005. The game arrived in Europe and the PAL region shortly after, in early 2006.
- Sid Meier's Antietam!Sid Meier's Antietam! arrived in December 1999 as a real-time computer wargame. The title placed players directly into the American Civil War conflict known…
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionOn the 4th of April 2010, producer Yoshinori Ono confirmed an arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV during the Japanese Street Fighter IV finals.
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant WingsSquare Enix announced Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings in September 2006. This announcement marked the beginning of a new chapter for the franchise.
- Street Fighter II TurboCapcom released Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting in 1992 as an enhancement kit for existing arcade cabinets. This distribution method allowed…
- Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy arrived on the PlayStation Portable in March 2011 carrying an unusual promise: it was simultaneously a prequel and a remake of the…
- 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…
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterIn 1997, Capcom released a fighting game that introduced a mechanic players had never seen before. The Variable Assist allowed a player to summon their…
- Silent Hill 3In September 2001, the development team at Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo began work on a project that would eventually become Silent Hill 3.
- Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactCapcom released Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact in October 1997. The game ran on the CP System III hardware, a new board designed for arcade cabinets.
- Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years asks a question most sequels are afraid to pose: what happens seventeen years later, when the heroes have grown old and…
- Street Fighter II: Champion EditionThe year 1992 brought a quiet revolution to the arcade floor. Street Fighter II: Champion Edition arrived with four new playable fighters who had previously…
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VIIDirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII arrived in 2006 as something nobody expected from Square Enix: a third-person shooter set inside one of gaming's most…
- 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 Street Fighter IVSuper Street Fighter IV arrived in April 2010 carrying a lower price tag than a standard retail release, which was itself a statement about what kind of…
- 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…
- Street Fighter IIIOn the 27th of March 1996, Capcom announced that Street Fighter III was in development during a meeting in Tokyo. Production at Capcom on the first game in…
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike hit arcade floors in May of 1999. It ran on Capcom's CP System III hardware, a machine built to handle the game's complex…
- Final Fantasy X-2Final Fantasy X-2 arrived in Japan in 2003 as something the series had never attempted: a direct sequel. Every numbered Final Fantasy before it told a…
- 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 2: Sons of LibertyHideo Kojima completed his original design document for the game in January 1999. The Japanese document was published by Konami in 2002 and translated into…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsRyota Niitsuma stood before the development team in 2010 and declared that the complex four-button system of previous games would be gone.
- 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.
- Suikoden VIn the Queendom of Falena, the Feitas River runs dry. Lord Rovere lies dead in the ruins of Lordlake. Queen Arshtat stands over the scorched earth with the…
- Metal Gear 2: Solid SnakeHideo Kojima rode a train in Tokyo when a junior coworker revealed he was working on Snake's Revenge, an unauthorized sequel to Metal Gear being developed…
- 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.
- Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II arrived in arcades in 1991 and changed the way people played games in public spaces. By 1994, an estimated 25 million people in the United…
- 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: The Force Unleashed IIStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II dropped into players' hands on the 26th of October 2010, and immediately posed an uncomfortable question: what does it mean…
- 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…
- Suikoden IIISuikoden III arrived on the PlayStation 2 in 2002 with an idea that was genuinely strange for its era: what if a war story had no heroes and no villains…
- 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.