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Xbox 360 games
- Silent Hill HD CollectionThe Silent Hill HD Collection arrived in March 2012 with a promise built on nostalgia: two of survival horror's most celebrated games, reborn in high…
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionSuper Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition arrived in Japanese arcades in 2010 with a question hanging over it: was this the final chapter of one of fighting…
- Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII opens in a place that should not exist: Cocoon, a massive artificial sphere floating above the surface of Gran Pulse, kept aloft by…
- Silent Hill: HomecomingSilent Hill: Homecoming begins with a truck rattling through fog on the road into Shepherd's Glen. Inside the cab, asleep, is Alex Shepherd, a soldier just…
- The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped seven million units in its first week of release, and within two years had crossed twenty million sold. That was 2011.
- Super Street Fighter IVSuper Street Fighter IV arrived in April 2010 carrying a lower price tag than a standard retail release, which was itself a statement about what kind of…
- Call of Juarez: Bound in BloodCall of Juarez: Bound in Blood opens in August 1864, with two Confederate sergeants choosing family over duty in the final months of the Civil War.
- Dragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: Origins begins on the eve of the fifth Blight, a moment when the monstrous Darkspawn threaten to swarm the surface world for only the fifth time…
- Final Fantasy XIII-2Final Fantasy XIII-2 arrived in Japanese stores on the 15th of December 2011, carrying an unusual burden: it was designed from the start as an answer to…
- Doom (1993 video game)Doom, released on the 10th of December 1993, crashed a university's network before most people had even heard of it. At midnight, after thirty straight hours…
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIIILightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII opens on a brutal countdown: thirteen days until the world ends, and only one person to save every soul in it.
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain arrived on the 1st of September 2015 and immediately broke records. On its opening day alone, the game grossed US$179…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsMarvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds arrived in February 2011 carrying a weight of nearly a decade of silence. The series had gone dark after legal…
- Street Fighter X TekkenStreet Fighter X Tekken arrived in 2012 as one of gaming's most unexpected partnerships. Two of the biggest fighting game franchises in history, built on…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arrived in stores on the 15th of November 2011, less than nine months after the game it was based on had launched.
- Star Wars: The Force UnleashedStar Wars: The Force Unleashed opens with a small child wrenching Darth Vader's lightsaber from his grip. Vader kills the boy's father and takes him as a…
- Darkest of DaysDarkest of Days drops the player into one of the most desperate last stands in American military history: the Battle of Little Big Horn, where General…
- The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation DividedCauldron HQ began work on a historical shooter set during the American Civil War in 2006. Activision Value partnered with The History Channel to publish the…
- Final Fantasy XIFinal Fantasy XI launched in Japan on the 16th of May 2002, asking players to share a single online world with strangers who spoke different languages and…
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed IIStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II dropped into players' hands on the 26th of October 2010, and immediately posed an uncomfortable question: what does it mean…
- Dragon's DogmaDragon's Dogma arrived in 2012 carrying a question its director had been holding since the year 2000: could a Japanese studio build a Western-style…
- Silent Hill: DownpourSilent Hill: Downpour opens with a murder. Before the player sees a single street of the fog-choked town, they watch Murphy Pendleton kill Patrick Napier in…
- The Beatles: Rock BandThe Beatles: Rock Band arrived in stores on the 9th of September 2009, a date chosen with deliberate intent: it was the same day that newly remastered…