Curated category
Video games featuring female protagonists
- 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.
- Silent Hill HD CollectionThe Silent Hill HD Collection arrived in March 2012 with a promise built on nostalgia: two of survival horror's most celebrated games, reborn in high…
- Silent Hill: The ArcadeSilent Hill: The Arcade drops six friends from Portland into one of horror's most iconic fog-drenched towns, and almost none of them make it back out in one…
- Dissidia Final FantasyDissidia Final Fantasy arrived on the PlayStation Portable in Japan on the 18th of December 2008, and it brought with it a premise that had never been tried…
- 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…
- 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.
- X-Men vs. Street FighterCapcom released X-Men vs. Street Fighter in September 1996 for the CP System II arcade board. This title marked the company's third fighting game to feature…
- Silent Hill 3Silent Hill 3 dropped onto PlayStation 2 shelves in May 2003, and from its first moments it placed a 17-year-old girl named Heather Mason in a nightmare she…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Puella Magi Madoka MagicaPuella Magi Madoka Magica arrived on Japanese television on the 7th of January 2011, and within weeks it had upended everything audiences thought they knew…
- Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II launched on the 17th of December 1988, almost exactly one year after the original game, and Square's small team of around ten people had…
- 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…
- Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI arrived in Japanese homes on the 2nd of April, 1994, carrying a premise that broke from every rule the series had established.
- 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 Battlefront II (2017 video game)Star Wars Battlefront II arrived in 2017, the fourth mainline entry in the Battlefront series and a sequel to DICE's 2015 reboot of the franchise.
- 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…
- Dead or Alive (franchise)Dead or Alive began as a wager. In the mid-1990s, Tecmo was in financial trouble, and a programmer named Tomonobu Itagaki made a bet with company management…
- 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…
- 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…
- Assassin's Creed ValhallaAssassin's Creed Valhalla sold more copies in its first week than any game in the franchise had ever managed. On the 17th of November 2020, one week after…