Curated playlist
Video games set in Los Angeles
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)Capcom's X-Men arcade game hides Akuma because its Marvel contract required a Street Fighter character.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 7Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 reached players on the 14th of November 2025, and within weeks its user score on Metacritic had fallen to 1.5. That was the lowest rating any Call of Duty game had ever received on the site. Yet critics were…
- Ace AttorneyAce Attorney is a Capcom adventure series in which the hero wins by catching a witness in a lie. In its fictional courts, a trial lasts three days at most. Verdicts usually come back guilty, and the cases the games follow are rare…
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was blocked from sale in Kuwait before release. Every pre-order in the country was cancelled and refunded, and Kuwaiti officials gave no reason. Publications guessed that the game's Gulf War setting was the cause.…
- Call of Duty: Black Ops IICall of Duty: Black Ops II took in more than $500 million in the first 24 hours after it went on sale. That figure made the 2012 first-person shooter the largest entertainment launch of all time. The record stood until Grand Theft Auto V…
- L.A. NoireL.A. Noire, a game from 2011 set in Los Angeles in 1947, became the first video game honoured as an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. Team Bondi developed it, and Rockstar Games published it. Players follow a young police…
- Dispatch (video game)Robert Robertson III has no superpowers, a heap of debt, and a hero's suit that no longer works. That is where Dispatch begins. Dispatch is a 2025 episodic adventure game from the American developer AdHoc Studio, and it calls itself a…
- 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…
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, released in 2020, carried a production budget of more than 700 million US dollars. That is an enormous sum for a game that started out as something else entirely. It was not supposed to belong to the Black…