The next few years were a fallow time for the electronic gaming industry as wave after wave of lackluster me-too console games flooded the market and drove sales south.
The sequel to last year's The Hunger Games, adapted from US writer Suzanne Collins' novel, is "bigger, crisper, more thought-out, and more polished", according to a review in The Daily Beast.
We start learning the rules of Cobb's game on the fly during this breathless introduction, where reality recedes ever further with each new twist in the heist scenario.
Look through a list of great movies, books, and games, and you'll see that most of them don't have original ideas at their heart -what makes them great is how those ideas were developed and presented.
I was a main character in Fallout 4, a character by the name of Kellogg, and I never knew that I was doing vocal recording for that game throughout the year and a half.
"The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate and translate shapes," Levine said in a statement.