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2018 Video Games
Numerous video games were released in 2018. Best-selling games included ''Madden NFL 19'', ''NBA 2K19'', ''NBA Live 19'', ''WWE 2K19'', ''Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'', ''Spider-Man (2018 video game), Marvel's Spider-Man'', ''Red Dead Redemption 2'', ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', ''Far Cry 5'', ''God of War (2018 video game), God of War'', ''Monster Hunter: World'', ''Assassin's Creed Odyssey'', ''Spyro Reignited Trilogy'', and ''Dragon Ball FighterZ''. Games highly regarded by video game critics released in 2018 included ''Red Dead Redemption 2'', ''God of War'', ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', ''Spider-Man (2018 video game), Marvel's Spider-Man'', ''Forza Horizon 4'', ''Monster Hunter: World'', ''Dead Cells'', ''Return of the Obra Dinn'', and ''Celeste (video game), Celeste''. The year's highest-grossing games included ''Fortnite'', ''Honor of Kings/Arena of Valor'', ''Dungeon Fighter Online'', ''League of Legends'', and ''Pokémon Go''. Among major trends in 2018 included the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forza Horizon 4
''Forza Horizon 4'' is a 2018 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios. It was released on 2 October 2018 for Windows and Xbox One after being announced at Xbox's E3 2018 conference. An enhanced version of the game was released on Xbox Series X/S on 10 November 2020. The game is set in a fictionalised representation of areas of Great Britain. It is the fourth ''Forza Horizon'' title and eleventh instalment in the ''Forza'' series. The game is noted for its introduction of changing seasons to the series, as well as featuring several content-expanding updates which have included new game modes. A sequel, '' Forza Horizon 5'', was released on 9 November 2021. The game was delisted from sale on 15 December 2024 across all platforms. Gameplay ''Forza Horizon 4'' is a racing video game set in an open world environment based in a fictionalised Great Britain, with regions that include condensed representations of Edinburgh, the Scottish High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American Video game developer, video game and software development, software developer and video game publisher, publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney (game developer), Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, ''ZZT'' (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein (software executive), Mark Rein, who has been its vice president since. After moving the headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio changed its name to Epic Games. Epic Games developed Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers its internally developed video games like ''Fortnite'' and the ''Unreal (video game series), Unreal'', ''Gears of War'', and ''Infinity Blade'' series. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful videogame engine" by ''Guinness World Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
''PUBG: Battlegrounds'' (previously known as ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'') is a 2017 battle royale video game published by Krafton, and developed by Krafton's PUBG Studios. The game, which was inspired by the Japanese film '' Battle Royale'' (2000), is based on previous mods created by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction. Played from either a third-person or first-person perspective, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island where they are tasked to scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill other players while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into an ever-tightening space to force encounters. ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'' was first released for Windows via Steam's early access beta program in March 2017, with a full release in December 2017; the same month, Microsoft Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluehole (company)
Krafton Inc. () is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company based in Bundang District, Seongnam. It was created in November 2018 to serve as the parent company for Bluehole, founded by Chang Byung-gyu in Seoul in March 2007, and its subsidiaries. The company has published several notable video game titles including '' TERA'', '' PUBG: Battlegrounds'', '' New State Mobile,'' '' The Callisto Protocol'', and ''InZOI''. History Following the success of '' PUBG: Battlegrounds'', which had led to both investment from Tencent Holdings, and expansion and acquisition of studios, Bluehole opted to establish Krafton on 5 November 2018, to serve as a holding company for its video game properties. "Krafton" was selected based on the names of craft guilds of the Middle Ages. Kim Chang-han, the CEO of the PUBG Corporation (current PUBG Studios) that developed ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'', was named as CEO for Krafton. The company announced its plans to file for an initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Royale Game
A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration, and scavenging elements of a survival game. Battle royale games involve dozens to hundreds of players, who start with minimal equipment and then must eliminate all other opponents while avoiding being trapped outside a shrinking "safe area", with the winner being the last player or team alive. The name for the genre is taken from the 2000 Japanese film '' Battle Royale'', itself based on the novel of the same name, which presents a similar theme of a last-man-standing competition in a shrinking play zone. The genre's origins arose from mods for large-scale online survival games like ''Minecraft'' and '' Arma 2'' in the early 2010s. By the end of the decade, the genre became a cultural phenomenon, with standalone games such as '' PUBG: Battlegrounds'' (2017), '' Fortnite Battle Royale'' (2017), ''Apex Legends'' (2019) and '' Call of Duty: War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokémon Go
''Pokémon Go'' (stylized as ''Pokémon GO'') is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game originally developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. It uses mobile devices with GPS to locate, capture, train, and battle virtual Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location. The game is free-to-play; it uses a freemium business model combined with local advertising and supports online purchases for additional in-game items as well as virtual and real-world events. The game launched with around 150 species of Pokémon, with several hundred more species being added as of 2025. ''Pokémon Go'' was released to mixed reviews; critics praised the concept but criticized technical problems. It was one of the most used and profitable mobile apps in 2016, having been downloaded more than 500 million times worldwide by the end of the year. It is credited with popularizing location-based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League''s main mode, Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeon Fighter Online
''Dungeon Fighter Online'', known in South Korea as ''Dungeon & Fighter'', is a multiplayer beat 'em up action role-playing game, developed and published for personal computers by Neople, a South Korean subsidiary of Nexon, and originally published by Hangame in 2005. The game was originally released in South Korea as ''Dungeon & Fighter'', then in Japan as and then published in China by Tencent. A global version of ''Dungeon Fighter Online'' was released in May 2015. ''Dungeon Fighter Online'' is one of the most-played and highest-grossing video games of all time, with over 850 million players worldwide and over in lifetime revenue as of June 2023. This also makes it one of the highest-grossing entertainment media products of all time. Gameplay ''Dungeon Fighter Online'' is similar to 2D side-scrolling arcade hack and slash/ beat 'em up games, such as '' Golden Axe'' or '' Double Dragon''. Players traverse 2D screens while fighting hordes of monsters. There are a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Of Valor
''Arena of Valor'' (), formerly ''Strike of Kings'', is an international adaptation of '' Honor of Kings'' (), a multiplayer online battle arena developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Level Infinite for Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch for markets outside Mainland China. As of September 2018, the game has grossed over outside China. ''Arena of Valor'' was one of the esports titles featured at the 2018 Asian Games, 2019 Southeast Asian Games, 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, and 2021 SEA Games as part of the competitive sport. ''Arena of Valor'' was published in other regions by Garena, DeNA, Actoz SG, and TiMi Studio Group. Gameplay ''Arena of Valor'' is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed for mobile. The overall gameplay of ''Arena of Valor'' highly resembles ''League of Legends'', a MOBA game on PC developed and published by Riot Games, which is also a subsidiary of Tencent and a sister company to TiMi. Players control characters, refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Of Kings
''Honor of Kings'' (, unofficially translated as "King's Glory", or alternatively transliterated as Wangzhe Rongyao) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent Games for iOS, HarmonyOS NEXT, and Android. The game was first released in mainland China on 26 November 2015. In October 2016, an international adaptation, '' Arena of Valor'', was released, utilizing the same game engine but altering the user interfaces and heroes to accommodate the Western market. As of November 2020, ''Honor of Kings'' had over 3 million daily active players, making it one of the most popular games in the world. It is the highest-grossing mobile game of all time and one of the most downloaded apps globally. In June 2022, Level Infinite, the publisher of ''Arena of Valor'', announced that ''Honor of Kings'' would be released globally through a separate version by the end of 2022. In May 2024, the worldwide launch of Global versi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
