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Metal Gear Solid (video game)1998 video game
Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 brought back two crossover fighting games missing since the early 2000s.
Capcom Fighting CollectionRed Earth, an arcade fighter, reached home players in Capcom Fighting Collection. It had only been in arcade cabinets.
Final Fantasy Legend IIA smashed goddess statue scatters 77 magical stones across linked worlds in Final Fantasy Legend II.
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionStreet Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection put twelve arcade games on one disc, thirteen on Nintendo Switch.
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.
Street Fighter X Mega ManStreet Fighter X Mega Man began in a Singaporean fan's bedroom. One million people had downloaded it by March 3, 2013.
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy OriginIn Stranger of Paradise, Jack's party are agents sent repeatedly from another world.
Sid Meier's Antietam!A Sid Meier Civil War wargame skipped retail stores in December 1999. Firaxis tested online-only sales.
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionIn April 2012, Capcom said Arcade Edition would be the last Street Fighter IV. Ultra Street Fighter IV arrived in 2014.
SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumRivals SNK and Capcom teamed up partly to help a struggling handheld, the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition squeezed a console epic onto a touchscreen. Only the first of ten chapters is free.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes passed $500,000 on Kickstarter in just three to four hours.
Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionKonami pulled two Metal Gear Solid games from digital stores in November 2021. Expired licenses were the reason given.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake EaterMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater sends a soldier into the Soviet jungle in 1964, using a game that first appeared in 2004. It is a 2025 stealth action-adventure from Konami, rebuilt from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the first…
Dissidia Final Fantasy NTDissidia Final Fantasy NT began in a Japanese arcade, not on a home console.
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Firaxis Games made its very first game about the Civil War's bloodiest battle, Gettysburg. It came out in 1997.
Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game)Three quarters of Final Fantasy IV's original script never reached players in 1991.
Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
Lineage WLineage W was called "the final Lineage" before anyone had played it. Estimates put it at an NCSoft first-day record.
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…
Hades IIHades II arrived without warning on the 5th of May 2024, and a rival studio rearranged its calendar because of it. Evil Empire had planned to release The Rogue Prince of Persia on the 14th of May. It pushed the launch to later that month…
Star Wars: X-Wing (video game)Star Wars: X-Wing sold out its first 100,000 copies before the weekend was over.
Red Dead RedemptionRed Dead Redemption is a 2010 Western from Rockstar San Diego, and it opens with a man who has run out of choices. In 1911, federal agents take the wife and son of a former outlaw named John Marston. The price of their freedom is his skill…
Silent Hill 3In Silent Hill 3, a roller coaster kills 17-year-old Heather Mason, who then wakes in a mall.
Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the game in which a famous military shooter series walked out of World War II and into the present day. Infinity Ward developed it, Activision published it, and it was the fourth main installment in the…
Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII's heroes learn their mission is to destroy their own world.
Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a 2004 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, gave players one of the most repeated lines in gaming. Early in the story, a mission called "Wrong Side of the Tracks" goes badly, and Big Smoke shouts, "All…
BioShockBioShock, a first-person shooter released in 2007, hides its sharpest trick inside a polite request: "Would you kindly." The phrase sounds harmless. In the game it carries a hidden weight, and it changes what the player believes about…
Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years was a role-playing game released to mobile phones in monthly installments.
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsIn December 2013, Capcom pulled three Marvel vs. Capcom games from sale. Their licensing deal with Marvel had expired.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VIICrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII explains a death that fans of the 1997 game already knew.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (video game)The Star Wars game Shadows of the Empire starred a hero most fans had never heard of.
Heroes of the StormIn Heroes of the Storm, every player on a team levels up together. Fallen minions feed one shared team pool.
Tomb Raider (2013 video game)In November 2010, Square Enix filed a trademark for a slogan, "A Survivor is Born," to promote a new Tomb Raider game. That game arrived in 2013 from the developer Crystal Dynamics, and it did not simply continue Lara Croft's story. It…
Resident Evil RequiemResident Evil Requiem sold five million copies in its first five days, which made it the fastest-selling game in the long-running Resident Evil series. Capcom released it on the 27th of February 2026, and critics greeted it warmly. It is…
The Walking Dead (video game)The Walking Dead, a 2012 episodic graphic adventure from Telltale Games, begins with a convicted criminal named Lee Everett in the back of a police car. On the first day of an outbreak, the car strikes a walker and crashes. Dave Fennoy…
League of LegendsLeague of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game from Riot Games. Its 2019 World Championship drew more than 100 million unique viewers. That same year, the game regularly reached eight million players online at the same moment.…
AGEOD's American Civil WarIn AGEOD's American Civil War, you run both the army and the government. You can lead either side.
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…
BioShock InfiniteBioShock Infinite sends its hero to a city that floats among the clouds above America in 1912. Irrational Games developed it and 2K published it in 2013, and it is a first-person shooter that leans hard on story. The hero is Booker DeWitt,…
Dota 2A month before its official launch in 2013, Dota 2 already had nearly 330,000 people playing at the same moment on Steam. That crowd outnumbered the players in the rest of the platform's top ten games combined. Dota 2 is a Valve game in…
Grand Theft Auto VThree days after Grand Theft Auto V reached stores in September 2013, it had passed one billion dollars in sales. No entertainment product in history had reached that mark faster. The game came from Rockstar North and was published by…
Red Dead Redemption 2Red Dead Redemption 2 is a 2018 action-adventure game from Rockstar Games that puts the player in the boots of Arthur Morgan, an outlaw living in the year 1899. The frontier he knows is closing. Government forces, rival gangs and the march…
Grand Theft Auto: Vice CityGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, a 2002 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, sold more than 500,000 copies within 24 hours of its release. Within two days it had reached 1.4 million, which made it the fastest-selling game in history at…
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…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare earned more than 600 million dollars in its first three days on sale. Infinity Ward developed the first-person shooter and Activision published it. It reached PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One on the 25th of…
Quake (video game)Only one developer came in to upload Quake on launch day. That was John Romero, who left id Software soon after.
Final Fantasy Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III began in Japan as SaGa 3, planned as the last game in its series.
Final Fantasy VJapan asked Square not to release Final Fantasy V on a school day.