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RockStar North – GTA V

GTA V (Grand Theft Auto) is the most recent release of Rock-star North’s renowned franchise. It was released on the 17th of September, 2013 for Ps3 and Xbox 360 and was later put on the Ps4, Xbox 1 and of course PC. You play as 3 different characters working together committing various heists as well as the open world which lets the players roam around and do as they please. GTA V broke the industry sale records and became the fastest selling entertainment product in history, earning 800 million US dollars in the first day of its release and an amazing 1 billion in the three days of its release. Since its release it’s sold over 52 million copies making it the 4^th best-selling video game of all time.

Mojang - Minecraft

Minecraft, created by The Swedish programmer Markus Notch Persson is a sandbox game which required players to build constructions, gather food, farm and hunt to survive each day as well as a ‘Creative mode’ where players could fly and build large scale constructions with an unlimited resource and an ‘Adventure mode’ where players could play on custom made maps created by other players. . The alpha of the game was released on PC on May 17, 2009 and after a fair few updates the game was fully released on November 18, 2011. The game obtained a fair few awards including best downloadable game award and golden joystick award. As of October 2014, the games sold over 60 million copies, including 12 million on the Xbox and 19 million on PC, making it the third bestselling game of all time.

Naughty Dogs – The Last of Us

The last of us is an action survival horror game developed by naughty dog is a PlayStation exclusive. The game was released on the Ps3 on June 14, 2013 and later on the remastered version came out for PS4 on July 29^th, 2014. Players play as a man named Joel, who lost his daughter in the early parts of the game and tasked on escorting Ellie, a young girl he meets later on in the game throughout a post-apocalyptic united states. The last of us became one of the best-selling play station games, selling over 1.3 million units in its first week and over 8 million in the following months. The game is considered by many critics as one of the greatest games of all time. It won yearlong awards including over 240 game of the year awards giving it the title of most awarded game in history.