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Battlefield 4
Battlefield 4 is a 2013 DICE/EA first-person shooter, the first on Frostbite 3, known for Levolution map-changing, 64-player multiplayer, a buggy launch and shareholder lawsuit, and long-lived online support.
Battlefield V
Battlefield V (BFV, BF5) is DICE and EA's 2018 World War 2 first-person shooter for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, delayed to November 20, 2018, with Tides of War free live service, Firestorm battle royale, and a critic-player score gap (79 vs 65).
Battlefield: Bad Company
Battlefield: Bad Company, DICE's 2008 console-exclusive first-person shooter for PS3 and Xbox 360, the first story-driven Battlefield game and first Frostbite title, with destructible environments, the Gold Rush mode, and 2023 server shutdown.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (BC2), DICE's March 2010 first-person shooter on Frostbite 1.5 with Destruction 2.0, sold over 7 million units, earned Metacritic 88, and inspired Battlefield 6; official servers closed December 8, 2023.
Battletoads
Battletoads: Rare's brutally difficult beat 'em up franchise (NES, June 1991) starring toads Rash, Zitz, and Pimple, a TMNT rival known for the Turbo Tunnel, five 1990s games, and a 2020 Dlala Studios reboot.
Bayonetta (character)
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ) is the Umbra Witch protagonist of PlatinumGames' action series, debuting 2009-2010; designed by Mari Shimazaki under Hideki Kamiya, known for hair-summoned Wicked Weaves, Witch Time, and a divisive feminist-critique legacy.
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic first-person puzzle horror game (2017–2018) by Joey Drew Studios/TheMeatly Games, set in an abandoned 1930s cartoon workshop; known for its rubber-hose aesthetic, YouTube-driven success, and the Bendy franchise.
Big Boss (Metal Gear)
Big Boss, also known as Naked Snake, is a fictional soldier in Konami's Metal Gear series, introduced as the antagonist of the original 1987 Metal Gear.
BioShock (series)
BioShock series: retrofuturistic FPS franchise by Ken Levine and Irrational Games, published by 2K. BioShock (2007), BioShock 2 (2010), Infinite (2013); Rapture, plasmids, Big Daddies; 25 million sold; BioShock 4 at Cloud Chamber delayed.
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a two-part 2013-2014 DLC by Irrational Games sending Booker and Elizabeth to a pre-fall Rapture, rebuilt in the Infinite engine; Episode 1 (Nov 12, 2013) is combat-based, Episode 2 (Mar 25, 2014) stealth-based with Elizabeth playable.
Birdo
Birdo (Catherine) is a pink egg-shooting dinosaur character in Nintendo's Super Mario franchise, debuting as a boss in Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic (1987) and Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988); noted for transgender representation and spin-off roles.
Blanka
Blanka: green-skinned Brazilian beast-man of Street Fighter II (1991), charge-character with Rolling Attack and Electric Thunder; bottom tier in ST, 4th in SF6 meta; Jason Momoa plays him in the 2026 film.
BlazBlue: Central Fiction
BlazBlue: Central Fiction (ブレイブルー セントラルフィクション) is Arc System Works' fourth main BlazBlue fighting game and the final Azure Saga entry, released in arcades from November 19, 2015 and on consoles, Steam, and Switch, with 35+ characters, Overdrive and Active Flow systems, and 2022 rollback netcode.
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (ブレイブルー クロスタッグバトル) is Arc System Works' 2018 2v2 tag fighting game crossing BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth, and RWBY, with 20 base characters, Smart Combos, and a Cross Gauge.
BloodRayne
BloodRayne is a video game series about Rayne, a dhampir agent of the Brimstone Society fighting Nazis in the 1930s; three games by Terminal Reality and WayForward, plus a poorly received 2005 Uwe Boll film.
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a retro 2D action platformer by Inti Creates, released in 2018 as a Kickstarter stretch-goal homage to classic Castlevania, with four playable characters.
Bloody Roar
Bloody Roar (ブラッディロア) is Hudson Soft and Eighting's 3D fighting game series, begun in arcades in 1997, where fighters transform into animal beast forms using a beast gauge; four main sequels ended with Bloody Roar 4 (2003).
Blue Archive
Blue Archive (ブルーアーカイブ, 블루아카이브) is a Nexon/NAT GAMES free-to-play tactical gacha RPG launched in Japan February 2021 and globally November 2021; players are a Sensei guiding students in Kivotos, with 200-pull pity and a disputed 2026 gacha revision.
Bomberman
Bomberman (Bomber Man, Dynablaster) is Hudson Soft's grid-based bomb-placement action-puzzle franchise, begun as a 1980 tech demo, famous for plus-shaped blasts, chain reactions, and multiplayer up to 64 players, now owned by Konami with 70+ titles.
Bonk (series)
Bonk (PC Genjin, ＰＣ原人) is a video game series of 2D platformers starring a big-headed caveman mascot of NEC's PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, beginning with Bonk's Adventure (1989) by Red Company, Atlus, and Hudson Soft.
Borderlands (series)
Borderlands: Gearbox Software and 2K's looter-shooter FPS/RPG series begun in 2009, known for procedural billions of weapons, cel-shaded art, Pandora, Handsome Jack, Borderlands 3's 5-million-unit launch, and Borderlands 4 (2025) on Kairos.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is a 2015 Gearbox/2K compilation for PS4 and Xbox One bundling Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel with all DLC, four-player split-screen, cross-save, and a 1080p60 patch 1.02.
Bowser
Bowser (クッパ, Kuppa), King of the Koopas, is the main antagonist of Nintendo's Super Mario franchise; debuted in Super Mario Bros. (NES), kidnaps Princess Peach, breathes fire, and is voiced by Jack Black in the films.
Bowsette
Bowsette (クッパ姫, Koopa-hime) is a fan-made gender-swapped Bowser created via the Super Crown by artist ayyk92 in a September 19, 2018 comic; unofficial, viral in Japan and the West, never adopted by Nintendo.
Braid (video game)
Braid (2008) is Jonathan Blow's indie puzzle platformer, first on Xbox 360, where Tim rewinds and bends time differently in each world to collect puzzle pieces; remastered as Braid, Anniversary Edition (2024) with 15 hours of commentary.
Breath of Fire (ブレス オブ ファイア)
Breath of Fire (ブレス オブ ファイア) is a Japanese role-playing game series by Capcom, running from 1993 to 2016, starring the dragon-transforming hero Ryu.
Brock (Pokémon)
Brock (タケシ, Takeshi) is the Pewter Gym Leader of Kanto in Pokémon and Ash Ketchum's longest-serving anime companion, a Rock/Ground-type trainer aiming to be a Pokémon Breeder, known for Zubat's record-quick capture and his team's many evolution methods.
Broken Sword
Broken Sword is Revolution Software's point-and-click adventure series created by Charles Cecil, starting with The Shadow of the Templars (1996, Circle of Blood in the US), starring George Stobbart and Nico Collard, with the 2024 Reforged remaster and Parzival's Stone in development.
Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV
Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV (ブラザーフッド ファイナルファンタジーXV) is a free five-episode A-1 Pictures ONA prequel to Final Fantasy XV, directed by Soichi Masui, covering Noctis, Ignis, Gladiolus, and Prompto's backstories.
Bubble Bobble (バブルボブル)
Bubble Bobble (バブルボブル) is Taito's 1986 arcade platform game by Fukio Mitsuji: bubble dragons Bub and Bob trap and pop monsters across 100 single-screen levels, with co-op required for the true ending; source code lost in 1996.