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Video games set in California

  • 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…
  • The Last of Us Part IIThe Last of Us Part II is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It unfolds in a post-apocalyptic United States, four years after the studio's The Last of Us of 2013. Two…
  • Fallout (video game)Fallout, the 1997 role-playing game from Interplay Productions, opens with a narrator voiced by the actor Ron Perlman. In 2026 he recalled that the job paid "40 dollars and a sandwich." It is a modest origin for a game that players and…
  • Fallout: New VegasFallout: New Vegas, a 2010 action role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, was built on a schedule that journalists called remarkably short for a major release. Publisher Bethesda Softworks allowed the studio 18 months. The game…
  • 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…
  • Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black Ops sold more than 5.6 million copies within 24 hours of going on sale in November 2010. That total beat the record set by Modern Warfare 2 by roughly 2.3 million copies. Treyarch built the game and Activision published…
  • Wolfenstein II: The New ColossusWolfenstein II: The New Colossus opens with B.J. Blazkowicz, a war veteran in a wheelchair, cutting down Nazi soldiers. MachineGames made this 2017 first-person shooter, and Bethesda Softworks published it. Its world is an alternate 1961,…
  • 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…
  • Mortal Kombat 1Mortal Kombat 1 is a fighting game that Japan, South Korea and China have banned because of its violence and gore. NetherRealm Studios developed it, and Warner Bros. Games published it. It is the twelfth main entry in the Mortal Kombat…
  • Battlefield 6Battlefield 6 sold more than 7 million copies in its first three days, a figure Electronic Arts announced on the 16th of October 2025. That made it the biggest launch in the history of the Battlefield series. The online-only first-person…
  • Cyberpunk 2077Cyberpunk 2077 broke a record within hours of its midnight GMT launch on the 10th of December 2020. More than one million people played it at once on Steam, and one million viewers watched live on Twitch. Together, the figures doubled the…
  • Horizon Forbidden WestHorizon Forbidden West cost around 212 million US dollars to make, which places it among the most expensive video games ever developed. At the peak of production, more than 300 full-time employees at Guerrilla Games were working on it.…

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