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  1. 3. A 2023 action role-playing game developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Games under its Portkey Games label. The game is part of the Wizarding World franchise, taking place a century prior to the events chronicled in the Harry Potter novels.
  2. 6. First Encounter Assault Recon is a 2005 first-person shooter psychological horror video game for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
  3. 7. A beat 'em up/platform video game developed by Rare and published by Tradewest. It is the first installment of the ____ series and was originally released on 1 June 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
  4. 12. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.
  5. 14. A 2008 first-person shooter zombie game developed by Valve South and published by Valve.
  6. 16. A 2019 puzzle stealth game developed by House House and published by Panic Inc. Players control a ____ who bothers the inhabitants of an English village. Players must use the ____ abilities to manipulate objects and non-player characters to complete objectives.
  7. 17. A 2012 action-adventure game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall.
  8. 20. A 2022 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. It was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding provided by fantasy writer George R. R. Martin.
  9. 23. Originally released in Japan as The Hyrule Fantasy: ____ no Densetsu, is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo in 1986.
  10. 24. A platform-adventure Metroidvania video game developed by Moon Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The game was released for Windows and Xbox One in March 2015.
  11. 28. A survival horror video game developed by Punchline for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. Set in England in 1930, the plot revolves around a nineteen-year-old woman named Jennifer, who becomes trapped in a world ruled by young girls who have established a class hierarchy called the Red Crayon Aristocrats.
  12. 30. A 2007 action role-playing game developed by CD Projekt Red for Microsoft Windows and CD Projekt on OS X. It was based on the fantasy novel series ____ by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
  13. 31. A 2000 first-person shooter developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The first game of the ____ series, it follows Joanna ____, an agent of the Carrington Institute research center, as she attempts to stop an extraterrestrial conspiracy by rival corporation dataDyne.
  14. 33. A 2016 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.
  15. 34. A puzzle video game created in 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer.
  16. 38. A 1999 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami.
  17. 41. A fantasy role-playing video game that was developed by BioWare and published in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment.
  18. 42. A 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Jumpman, the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla.
  19. 43. A 1990 fantasy-themed graphic adventure game by Lucasfilm Games. The project was led by Brian Moriarty, a former Infocom employee and author of classic text adventures Wishbringer, Trinity, and Beyond Zork.
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  1. 1. A music video game, developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision as a rhythm game spin-off of the Guitar Hero franchise. It was released on October 27, 2009, in North America.
  2. 2. A demo adventure game in the Life Is Strange series developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix. It was released in June 2018.
  3. 4. A vehicular combat video game released for personal computers in 1997. It was produced by Stainless Games and published by Interplay Productions and Sales Curve Interactive.
  4. 5. A 2011 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games. A spiritual successor to FromSoftware's Demon's Souls.
  5. 8. An adventure video game designed by the Miller brothers, Robyn and Rand. It was developed by Cyan, Inc., published by Broderbund, and initially released in 1993 for the Macintosh. In the game, the player travels via a special book to a mysterious island called ____.
  6. 9. A 1992 art creation video game developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
  7. 10. An action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube in 2002. ____ is the fifth main ____ game and the first to use 3D computer graphics and a first-person perspective.
  8. 11. Originally called Puck Man in Japan, this 1980 maze action video game was developed and released by Namco for arcades.
  9. 13. An open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. The first game in the ____ series, it was released for MS-DOS on March 25, 1994. The game follows the player trying to uncover a conspiracy against Emperor Uriel Septim VII.
  10. 15. An action game developed and published by Ubisoft in 2017. The game allows players to play the roles of historical forms of soldiers and warriors such as knights, samurai, and vikings, controlled using a third-person perspective.
  11. 18. A 2003 stealth game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. The first entry in the ____ series, it was released for the PlayStation 2.
  12. 19. A 2001 first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox.
  13. 21. A beat 'em up / run and gun video game developed and published by Data East for arcades in 1988 based on the 1987 film of the same name. It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage.
  14. 22. A hack-and-slash action-adventure video game developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ in 2010. The game's inspiration is from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the player taking the role of the horseman War.
  15. 25. A 2021 roguelike video game developed by Russian studio Four Quarters and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in a randomly generated world where the player changes the world by placing cards instead of directly controlling a character.
  16. 26. An adventure video game developed by independent Chicago-based developer Young Horses in 2020. In the game, players explore a mysterious island and attempt to find and capture the eponymous insectoid food creatures.
  17. 27. A vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco in 1982. Controlling the Solvalou starship, the player attacks ____ forces before they destroy all of mankind.
  18. 29. An arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. The player controls Bentley Bear who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered ____ while avoiding enemies, some of whom are after the gems as well.
  19. 32. A 1995 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. The game stars an anthropomorphic cartoon star who uses his hands and long, stretchable arms to both move and fight enemies.
  20. 34. A survival horror video game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was directed by Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami and was released worldwide in October 2014.
  21. 35. Officially known outside of Japan as EarthBound Beginnings, is a 1989 role-playing video game developed by Ape and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Famicom.
  22. 36. A 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic United States.
  23. 37. From 1987, a black-and-white point-and-click adventure game published for the Macintosh as part of the MacVenture series. The game is named for its setting, Castle ____, residence of the evil Warlock Lord.
  24. 39. A 1985 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The successor to the 1983 arcade game.
  25. 40. A 1996 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation.