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Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang Studios. Following its initial public alpha release as an early access title on 17 May 2009, it was formally released on 18 November 2011 for personal computers. The game has since been…

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Video Game

Elden Ring

Elden Ring is an upcoming epic dark fantasy action film written and directed by Alex Garland, and based on the 2022 video game Elden Ring developed by FromSoftware. It stars Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Nick Offerman, Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Emma…

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, open-world dark-fantasy action RPG in which players control monster hunter Geralt of Rivia in search of his adopted daughter Ciri.

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Grand Theft Auto V

Built on Rockstar's open-world lineage (*GTA III*, *GTA IV*), introducing three playable protagonists and *Grand Theft Auto Online*.

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Doom

Built by id Software after *Wolfenstein 3D* (1992), introducing a modular 3D engine and shareware distribution (Episode 1 free).

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Released for the Nintendo 64 in November 1998, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was the first 3D entry in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series and its largest 256-megabit cartridge production at the time

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Chrono Trigger

Developed and published by Square in 1995, *Chrono Trigger* unites *Final Fantasy* creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, *Dragon Quest* creator Yuji Horii, and *Dragon Ball* artist Akira Toriyama in a multi-era time-travel RPG that pioneered New Game+ and seamless on-screen

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Half-Life 2

Released November 16, 2004, *Half-Life 2* combined Source engine facial animation, Havok physics puzzles (exemplified by the Gravity Gun), and seamless environmental storytelling. Its launch established Steam as the dominant PC distribution platform.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Launched simultaneously with the Nintendo Switch on March 3, 2017, initially outselling the Switch console hardware (2.76M Switch copies vs. 2.74M consoles) plus 1.08M Wii U copies

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Released in June 1991 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sonic the Hedgehog was created after Sega held an in-house design contest to build a mascot rival to Nintendo's Mario

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Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 sci-fi first-person shooter following Master Chief (Spartan John-117) battling the alien Covenant and the Flood.

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Pac-Man

Designed by Toru Iwatani as a non-violent arcade game appealing to broader audiences, naming it from *paku-paku* (eating).

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Third mainline entry in The Legend of Zelda series, returning to the top-down overhead perspective of the 1986 original after Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987)'s side-scrolling experiment

Resident Evil 4

Originally debuted as a Nintendo GameCube title on January 11, 2005, before expanding across PS2, Wii, PC, and modern consoles

Super Mario World

Launched as the flagship pack-in/launch title for the Super Famicom (1990) and North American SNES (1991), defining 16-bit platforming

Alien: Isolation

Alien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Based on the Alien film series, the game is set 15 years after the original 1979 film, and follows the engineer…

Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 2 is a 2001 survival horror video game developed by Konami's Team Silent and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. The second installment in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 2 centers on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town of Silent Hill…

Outlast

Outlast is a 2013 first-person psychological survival horror video game developed and published by the Canadian independent studio Red Barrels. The plot centres on Miles Upshur, a freelance investigative journalist who investigates Mount Massive Asylum, a remote psychiatric…

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 2010 survival horror adventure game developed and published by the Swedish game development studio Frictional Games. It was first released on 8 September 2010 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Later, it was released to PlayStation 4 on 22…

Resident Evil 2

Resident Evil 2 is a 2019 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. A remake of the 1998 game Resident Evil 2, it was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in January 2019 and for Amazon Luna, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S in June 2022, with a cloud…

F1 24

F1 is a racing video game series by Codemasters under the EA Sports banner since 2021. The series holds the official license of the FIA Formula One World Championship, with the FIA Formula 2 Championship available since the 2019 game. A total of twenty-three games have been…

Resident Evil Requiem

2026 video game developed by Capcom

Super Mario 64

Super Mario 64 was the first Super Mario game built around a fully 3D world, launching alongside the Nintendo 64 in 1996

Quake

Released on June 22, 1996, Quake is a dark-fantasy first-person shooter developed by id Software featuring 32 single-player levels and 6 deathmatch levels

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

99/100 Metacritic (highest-rated game in history); 7.6M N64 units

inZOI Smart Zoi

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NARAKA: BLADEPOINT AI Teammates

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Ubisoft Teammates

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Dead Space

2008 video game

P.T.

2014 video game

Mantella + CHIM Mods (Skyrim)

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Company of Heroes 3

2023 video game developed by Relic Entertainment

Star Citizen NPC AI Overhaul

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Status (Wishroll)

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Voyage World Engine

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Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly

2003 survival horror video game

Dead Meat

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Bloodborne

Bloodborne is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. The game follows a Hunter through the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-era inspired city of Yharnam, whose inhabitants are afflicted with a…

PUBG Ally

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The Last Show

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CONTROL Resonant

Remedy’s follow-up puts Dylan Faden in a distorted Manhattan, facing the shapeshifting Aberrant. The setting makes visual design part of navigation and combat, because familiar city spaces can become hard to read. The game released in September 2026 as a single-player title. The Joystick award for Best Visual Design recognises an aspect players can judge directly from its environments and enemy designs.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword

Capcom sets this Onimusha in a supernatural version of Edo-period Kyoto. The campaign uses sword combat, the Oni Gauntlet and encounters with the Genma. The sound category is a useful lens for a sword game: weapon impacts and enemy cues can affect how clearly a fight communicates what just happened. Capcom dates the release to September 2026, and the organisers named it the Best Audio Design winner.

Dispatch

Dispatch casts the player as a superhero dispatcher who has to make decisions about both missions and the people sent on them. Its workplace comedy gives the cast a reason to clash outside the usual villain-of-the-week setup. The game debuted on PC and PS5 and tells its story across eight episodes. At the 2026 awards it won both Best Storytelling and Best Soundtrack.

Civilization

Spanning 4000 BC to AD 2100, players start with a single Settler unit and build cities, research a branching technology tree, conduct diplomacy with historical leaders (e.g., Ramses, Tokugawa, Gandhi), and pursue military conquest or an Alpha Centauri space-race vi

Metal Gear Solid

Set on Shadow Moses Island, retired operative Solid Snake infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility seized by rogue special-forces unit FOXHOUND

Frogger

Players guide five frogs sequentially from the bottom of the screen across a busy five-lane highway and a hazard-filled river (logs, turtles, alligators, snakes) into five home alcoves

The Oregon Trail

Created in 1971 by three student teachers—Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger—on a teletype printer to teach American history to Minnesota schoolchildren, *The Oregon Trail* became the longest-published and most successful educational video game in

Defender

Released by Williams Electronics in 1981 and led by Eugene Jarvis, *Defender* overturned the arcade orthodoxy of "easy to learn, difficult to master" by pairing a punishing five-button control scheme with a wraparound horizontally scrolling world and radar mini-map