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Video games set in Brazil

  • Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2 was Japan's top arcade game of 1996. It arrived less than a year after the first Alpha.
  • Ultra Street Fighter IIUltra Street Fighter II lets you throw Ryu's Hadouken by holding a Joy-Con in each hand.
  • Hyper Street Fighter IIHyper Street Fighter II, released by Capcom in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, contains only 17 unique characters. Yet those fighters appear in 65 different versions, each one carried over from an earlier arcade game. That number turns a…
  • Super Street Fighter II TurboIn Japan, no arcade game earned more in 1994 than Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Capcom built it for arcade cabinets as the fifth installment in the Street Fighter II sub-series, following Super Street Fighter II from 1993. Oddly, it did…
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3Thirty-nine fighters. That is how large the playable cast of Street Fighter Alpha 3 grew on its biggest portable edition. The game itself began in 1998 as a Capcom arcade title. It was the third and final installment of the Street Fighter…
  • Assassin's Creed IIIAssassin's Creed III went on sale in North America on the 30th of October 2012 with a secret that its own advertising kept from players. Every promotion showed Connor, a half-Mohawk Assassin. The game itself, however, opened with Haytham…
  • Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact was the only Capcom CPS3 game with a widescreen feature.
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023 video game)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III reached its audience first as a phone number. In August 2023, Activision shared the number on social media. Players who agreed to a few terms began receiving anonymous messages, such as "we need someone…
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies in the United States and United Kingdom within its first 24 hours. Those sales brought in $400 million. At the time, that made it the largest entertainment launch ever recorded. The…
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reached stores on the 10th of November 2009, and within 24 hours it had sold roughly 4.7 million copies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Those sales brought in $310 million. At the time, that made…
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops IIICall of Duty: Black Ops III, the 2015 shooter from the studio Treyarch, was built by a team that once looked at its own progress and saw almost nothing. In March 2026, creative director Jason Blundell recalled that moment. When the…
  • Street Fighter IIIStreet Fighter III stayed hand-drawn while rivals moved to 3D. Capcom built a new arcade board for its 2D art.
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike sold modestly in 1999, yet IGN later named it the greatest fighting game ever made.
  • Street Fighter X TekkenStreet Fighter X Tekken shipped with 12 paid characters already on the disc. Capcom said it locked them to save space.
  • Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II let eight players compete in one tournament across four linked arcade cabinets.
  • Call of Duty: GhostsWithin 24 hours of Call of Duty: Ghosts reaching stores in November 2013, Activision had shipped $1 billion worth of copies to retailers. The publisher still counted the game as a letdown. Ghosts was the tenth major Call of Duty release…
  • Tekken 3Tekken 3, a fighting game from Namco, sold more than one million copies in Japan on the day it reached the PlayStation. Few games begin their life at home with a number like that. Behind it lies a story that starts in the arcade, runs…
  • Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II's combos began as a bug that the team chose to keep. It appeared in the car-smashing bonus stage.
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six SiegeTom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is a Ubisoft shooter with no story campaign, and it still passed 70 million registered players by December 2020. Ubisoft Montreal built it around a single idea: two teams fighting over one building at a time.…
  • Street Fighter 6Street Fighter 6 sold more than one million units within five days of going on sale. Capcom both developed and published the 2023 fighting game, and it counts as the seventh main entry in the Street Fighter franchise. That early number…

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