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Wii U games

  • 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…
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black FlagAssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the sixth major installment in its series, hands the player a stolen ship and a Welsh pirate named Edward Kenway. Early in the story, Edward captures a brig called the Jackdaw from a Spanish fleet and makes…
  • Resident Evil: RevelationsResident Evil: Revelations is a 2012 survival horror game from Capcom, made for the Nintendo 3DS. It opens with agent Jill Valentine searching an abandoned cruise ship, the Queen Zenobia, for her missing colleague Chris Redfield. Chris…
  • Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UA 2015 Smash fan poll kept its top winners secret until October 2021. Sora and Banjo and Kazooie led the vote.
  • Batman: Arkham CityThe blueprints for Batman: Arkham City were hidden in a secret room inside the warden's office of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the game that came before it. Rocksteady Studios planted those hints in the 2009 original while that game was still…
  • 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…
  • Batman: Arkham OriginsBatman: Arkham Origins, a 2013 action-adventure game, begins on a snowy Christmas Eve in Gotham City with a price on one man's head: fifty million dollars. Eight professional killers are on their way to collect it. The man who posted the…
  • MinecraftMinecraft, the 2011 sandbox game from the Swedish company Mojang Studios, tells its only story through a poem of roughly 1,500 words. The End Poem was written by the Irish novelist Julian Gough. It scrolls past in about nine minutes when a…
  • 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…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had sold 34.51 million copies by March 2025. That made it the bestselling Zelda game and one of the bestselling video games ever. It is a 2017 action-adventure from Nintendo EPD, built for the Wii U…
  • TerrariaTerraria sold more than 50,000 copies on its first day in 2011, and 432,000 in its first month. By May 2026 the total had passed 70 million, placing it among the best-selling video games of all time. The game itself looks modest. It is a…

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