Curated playlist
Video games about parallel universes
- Gensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no TokiGensō Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki dropped into Japanese game shops on the 9th of February 2012, and by the end of that first week it had sold more than 61,000 units. That made it the highest-selling title in the country during…
- Heroes of the StormHeroes of the Storm arrived on the 2nd of June 2015, a game that dared to ask what would happen if every hero Blizzard Entertainment had ever created could fight in the same arena. Diablo, a demon lord of destruction, on the same team as…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: InfiniteMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is a 2017 crossover fighting game built by Capcom. It sends heroes and villains from the Marvel Comics universe up against Capcom's own cast in tag team battles. Capcom expected the game to sell two million…
- 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 cinematic realism, this ninth entry turned deliberately backward, back to medieval…
- 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…
- Mortal KombatMortal Kombat arrived in arcades in August 1992, and within months it had become one of the most debated video games in American history. Four people built it: Ed Boon handling the programming, John Tobias on art and story, John Vogel on…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsMarvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds arrived in February 2011 carrying a weight of nearly a decade of silence. The series had gone dark after legal disputes froze Capcom's license to use Marvel characters, leaving fans with nothing new…
- Namco × CapcomNamco x Capcom arrived in Japanese game shops on the 26th of May 2005, carrying inside it nearly one hundred characters drawn from two of the largest video game publishers in the world. The idea was ambitious enough that, at the time,…
- Project X ZoneProject X Zone, pronounced "Project Cross Zone," is a tactical role-playing game that asked a simple but audacious question: what would happen if sixty characters from three rival Japanese video game companies were dropped into the same…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arrived in stores on the 15th of November 2011, less than nine months after the game it was based on had launched. That is an unusually short gap between a fighting game and its successor. The reason it exists…
- Bravely DefaultBravely Default arrived on the 11th of October 2012, on Nintendo 3DS shelves in Japan and promptly sold 141,529 units in its first week alone, with a sell-through rate above 85%. That debut was strikingly higher than the sales of its…
- Granblue FantasyGranblue Fantasy launched in Japan in March 2014 on Android, iOS, and web browsers, built by a studio called Cygames. What made it remarkable from the start was not its platform or its genre, but two names on the credits: composer Nobuo…
- Suikoden TierkreisSuikoden Tierkreis landed on the Nintendo DS in December 2008 in Japan, arriving as something unusual in a long-running franchise: a game that asked what it would mean to fight for your own future. The central villain, known only as The…