Curated playlist
Xbox Play Anywhere games
- Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)Resident Evil 2, the 2019 survival horror game from Capcom, begins on the night of the 29th of September 1998. A rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy is heading for Raccoon City to start his first shift. A college student named…
- Final Fantasy VJapan asked Square not to release Final Fantasy V on a school day.
- Marvel vs. Capcom: InfiniteMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite cut its fights from three characters to two.
- Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III's developers followed a programmer to Sacramento after his work visa expired.
- Final Fantasy IXFinal Fantasy IX deliberately turned backward to medieval castles and minstrels.
- Final Fantasy VII RemakeFinal Fantasy VII Remake's reveal sent Square Enix's stock to its highest point since November 2008.
- Final Fantasy XVIIn Final Fantasy XVI, the hero hunts a fire monster that turns out to be him.
- Final Fantasy VII RebirthFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth was released on Leap Day, the 29th of February 2024. Square Enix chose that date deliberately.
- Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II replaced experience points with stats that grow by use. Its designer felt it went too far.
- Final Fantasy (video game)Final Fantasy got its name because its creator planned to quit if it failed. Square was also facing bankruptcy in 1987.
- Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV began with a Formula One race. Hiroyuki Ito saw cars pass at different speeds and got an idea.
- Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
- Middle-earth: Shadow of WarCut the arm off an orc in Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and that orc may return later wearing a metal prosthetic and a grudge. This enemy carries the title the Claw. The designers made it an archetype that appears only once per game.…
- Forza Horizon 5Forza Horizon 5, a racing game from Playground Games and Xbox Game Studios, crossed a remarkable line within a single day. On the 9th of November 2021, Xbox head Phil Spencer announced that more than 4.5 million people had already played…
- CupheadCuphead is a run and gun video game whose two creators remortgaged their house to finish it. Brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer ran Studio MDHR, a tiny Canadian indie team, and the game they were building looked like nothing else on the…
- Resident Evil 7: BiohazardResident Evil 7: Biohazard, a 2017 survival horror game from Capcom, begins with an email. It comes from Mia, a woman who has been missing for three years. Her husband, systems engineer Ethan Winters, follows the message to a derelict…
- Indiana Jones and the Great CircleIndiana Jones and the Great Circle is a 2024 action-adventure game from MachineGames, published by Bethesda Softworks. Its mystery begins with a line drawn on a map. Scattered around the world are strange sites that, once joined, form a…