Curated category
Video games developed in the United States
- 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…
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionThe collection arrived in May 2018 to mark thirty years of the Street Fighter series. Digital Eclipse built a package containing twelve arcade versions for…
- 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…
- 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…
- Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)Street Fighter: The Movie is a 1995 arcade fighting game that arrived at an unusual crossroads: a video game adapted from a film that was itself adapted from…
- Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Sid Meier's Gettysburg! arrived in 1997 with a question baked into its design: what if the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War could be fought again…
- 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…
- 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.
- Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection landed on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005, offering players a vault of arcade history in a single package.
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsIn December 2013, Capcom announced that the digital releases of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 were to be delisted due to the expiration of their character…
- Star Wars: Jedi ArenaStar Wars: Jedi Arena arrived on store shelves in January 1983, and it came with a distinction no other game in the franchise could claim: it was the first…
- 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)Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back arrived in arcades in 1985, carrying one of the most recognizable names in cinema into a cabinet that could fit in any…
- Heroes of the StormBlizzCon 2010 marked the first public glimpse of a project called Blizzard DOTA, a custom map built for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
- 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…
- Silent Hill: Book of MemoriesOn a specific birthday, the player-created protagonist receives a mysterious book that outlines their entire life. This object becomes the central mechanism…
- 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…
- Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III launched on the 27th of April, 1990, and within its first week sold 500,000 copies in Japan. By March 2003, that figure had reached 1.4…
- 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 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (video game)Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law arrived on store shelves on the 8th of January 2008, priced at around thirty dollars. That budget price point was deliberate.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1982 video game)Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back arrived as a cartridge for the Atari 2600 in 1982, and with it came a distinction no other game could claim: the first…
- Star Wars: The Force UnleashedGame planning began in the summer of 2004 when a small group of about six developers started with a clean slate. They spent more than a year brainstorming…
- Darkest of DaysDarkest of Days drops the player into one of the most desperate last stands in American military history: the Battle of Little Big Horn, where General…
- The Lost VikingsSilicon & Synapse began work on The Lost Vikings in 1993, drawing inspiration from the puzzle game Lemmings. The original concept involved managing hundreds…
- EverQuestEverQuest launched on the 16th of March 1999 with modest expectations from Sony, and within twenty-four hours it had drawn ten thousand active subscribers.
- 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…
- 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…
- Age of MythologyAge of Mythology arrived in October 2002 carrying a question that no strategy game from Ensemble Studios had asked before: what happens when you take the…
- DaikatanaDaikatana arrived in May 2000 with the weight of years of broken promises behind it. A first-person shooter from Ion Storm, it had been announced in 1997 as…
- Ultima (series)Ultima is a series of open world fantasy role-playing games from Origin Systems, created by Richard Garriott, and it sold over two million copies by 1997.
- Star Wars GalaxiesA Twi'lek stands in the bustling market of Mos Eisley, adjusting their lekku with a hired Entertainer. The game offered ten species to choose from at…
- Star Wars: The Old RepublicStar Wars: The Old Republic launched on the 20th of December 2011, and within three days it had attracted one million subscribers.
- Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR SeriesThe Oculus Quest and Rift systems received the first chapter of Vader Immortal on the 21st of May 2019. David S. Goyer wrote all three chapters while Ben…
- The Beatles: Rock BandThe Beatles: Rock Band arrived in stores on the 9th of September 2009, a date chosen with deliberate intent: it was the same day that newly remastered…
- 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.