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- 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…
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game)The Nintendo Entertainment System version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back arrived in 1992, two years after the original film and one year after its NES…
- Star Wars (1991 video game)Star Wars the video game arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in November 1991, more than fourteen years after the 1977 film that inspired it.
- Street Fighter X Mega ManMega Man lies back to relax on the 25th anniversary of his franchise. Ryu and other Street Fighters interrupt this peace with a final battle request.
- Silent Hill HD CollectionHijinx Studios spent more than two years building the Silent Hill HD Collection. The team received incomplete source code from Konami because the original…
- 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.
- Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera OmniaDissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia launched on the 1st of February 2017, in Japan, assembling heroes and villains from across the Final Fantasy franchise…
- 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.
- 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…
- Mitsumete KnightKonami and Red Company joined forces to create Mitsumete Knight in 1998. The project began as a modification of Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You, but the…
- 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: OriginsTravis Grady swerves his truck to avoid hitting a spirit manifestation of Alessa in the foggy streets of Silent Hill. The year is 1992, and the town waits…
- Gensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no TokiPlayers control a party of up to six characters out of 108 possible recruits. These characters come from three distinct time periods within the game world.
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin SnakesNintendo of America announced the remake in 2003. Silicon Knights would develop the game under guidance from Hideo Kojima and Shigeru Miyamoto.
- 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…
- Suikoden IVSuikoden IV arrives at an unusual place in a beloved series: set roughly 150 years before the events of the original Suikoden, it asks players to forget…
- Star Wars: X-Wing (video game)Star Wars: X-Wing launched in February 1993 on floppy disks, and its first shipment of 100,000 units sold out before the weekend was over.
- 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.
- Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII opens in a place that should not exist: Cocoon, a massive artificial sphere floating above the surface of Gran Pulse, kept aloft by…
- Silent HillsKonami's president approached Hideo Kojima in September 2012 to direct the next Silent Hill installment. Kojima accepted the offer with enthusiasm and began…
- Final Fantasy Mystic QuestFinal Fantasy Mystic Quest arrived in North America in 1992 with a label that few major game publishers would dare to put on a box: it was marketed as a…
- 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…
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (video game)Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire arrived on the Nintendo 64 on the 2nd of December 1996, three months after the console launched in North America.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game)Atari Games released Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1985 as a conversion kit for their existing arcade cabinet. This strategy allowed the company to…
- Metal Gear (video game)Hideo Kojima took over the Metal Gear project in 1987 after a senior associate had already begun work on it. The original concept was a straightforward…
- Final Fantasy Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III arrived in Japanese stores on the 13th of December, 1991, carrying a secret: in Japan it was called SaGa 3: Jikuu no Hasha, a title…
- Silent Hill: HomecomingMasashi Tsuboyama announced the game's development in a 2004 interview with Eurogamer. He stated that the project would appear on next-generation consoles…
- Star Wars (1987 video game)Star Wars, released in 1987 by Namco for the Family Computer, arrived in Japan with something unusual attached to its announcement: a photograph of George…
- Snake's RevengeIn 1990, Konami released Snake's Revenge for the Nintendo Entertainment System under the Ultra Games brand. This title appeared in North America and PAL…
- Gensō SuikogaidenKonami released the first volume of Gensō Suikogaiden in the autumn of 1999. This title marked a sharp departure from the role-playing mechanics that defined…
- 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.
- Dragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: Origins begins on the eve of the fifth Blight, a moment when the monstrous Darkspawn threaten to swarm the surface world for only the fifth time…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Silent Hill 2Silent Hill 2 opens with James Sunderland standing at a roadside rest stop, staring into a fog-covered valley. He has received a letter from his wife, Mary.
- Silent Hill: Shattered MemoriesSilent Hill: Shattered Memories asks you a question before it lets you play. Dr. Michael Kaufmann sits across from you in a therapist's office and wants to…
- Star Wars (1983 video game)Atari released the Star Wars arcade cabinet in 1983 using a unique hardware design that rendered 3D color vector graphics.
- Star Wars: Dark ForcesIn September 1993, Daron Stinnett began writing code for a game engine that would change how players saw the Star Wars universe.
- Tokimeki Memorial (video game)Tokimeki Memorial arrived on the PC Engine on the 27th of May 1994, carrying a premise that made seasoned game journalists stop cold.
- 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…
- 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.
- Silent Hill (video game)The year 1996 marked the start of development for a project that would change video game history. Team Silent, a group within Konami Computer Entertainment…
- Suikoden (video game)Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo spent roughly two years crafting the first Suikoden game. Scenario writer Yoshitaka Murayama drew inspiration from…