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 CollectionHijinx Studios spent more than two years building the Silent Hill HD Collection. The team received incomplete source code from Konami because the original…
- 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 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…
- 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 ZoneNamco Bandai Games conceived a project that would unite three major Japanese video game companies. The idea was to create a "dream crossover" featuring…
- 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)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…
- 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 ValhallaIn 873 AD, political pressures in Norway prompt Eivor Varinsdottir and her adoptive older brother Sigurd Styrbjornsson to lead their clan of Vikings to…