nVIDIA

nVIDIA is a video processing company that produces graphic processor units (GPU), "system on a chip" units (SoC) and video game capabilities.

1st Logo (August 27, 2002)

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Visuals: A flash occurs, and two lights swirl around as a green filling unfolds to cover a square wireframe construction, then the lights come to the rectangle to form the logo, which is a black/green spiral eye. The background turns white and the text "nVIDIA" in a serif font (with the "n" in italics) appears rotating. Then the background turns into a ripple and the logo zooms out. An outer circle appears on which the logo then lands on, with the white text "The way it's" on the top and "meant to be played™" on the bottom. The corporate eye and the text stay inside the circle, as the background turns white again.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: An explosion, followed by a morphing synth note with whoosh-like sounds and another explosion.

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Media Title	Date(s) of Release	Additional Note(s)
Icewind Dale 2	August 27, 2002	Only known appearance.

2nd Logo (September 30, 2002-April 29, 2009)

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  Unreal Tournament 2003 (2002): The logo is already formed and is in metallic gloss, which is rendered in real time using Unreal Engine 2. As the camera slowly pans across it, a soldier suddenly crashes through the inner part of the shield to reveal a red moving grid inside with smoke billowing below. The soldier looks around than shoots a rocket at the screen.
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  Chaser (2003): The logo now in 3D, spins multiple times till it flashes close to the view. This variant was used as a still image in Conan and Big Mother Trucker.
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  Gun Metal (2003): The logo animates normally, albeit on a black background without green flash and without the symbols in the background, after it finishes it shines once, the view than zooms out to reveal a robot dropping in which than drags the logo closer to him.
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  Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004): Same concept as in Unreal Tournament 2003 but this time the gloss is different and it's now a Skaarj named Dominator who suddenly crashes through the inner part of the shield with Gorge (a supersoldier). Dominator than shoots his minigun several times, while the Spider Mine comes in from the left side of the screen, walking towards Dominator, then jumps and explodes, blowing him out of view.
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  Painkiller (2004): A dead man comes to the logo, but shooting starts and he barely escapes. This is also seen on its sequels: Battle out of Hell and Overdose, it's also seen on black edition.
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  Mabinogi (2004): On a white background, the logo is seen in 3D, a sheep charges from the right and headbutts the logo, a cherry drops from the left.
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  Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (2004): On a white background the logo flips in and fades out.
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  Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004): The logo becomes full of blood. A hand appears above the logo then a vampire (Velvet Velour) appears and bites the logo accompanied by a white flash, making the blood come down.
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  The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004): The logo is right next to AMD 64 and Sound Blaster 24 bit Advanced HD.
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  Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport (2005): A soldier with dual wielded pistols walks backward to the logo hiding behind a giant mech, it walks slowly through the logo, standing above it and crushing the soldier, the mech than shoots miniguns. This is also seen on its sequels: Blood of Sahara and Black-out Saigon.
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  Crime Life: Gang Wars (2005): A hooligan comes in looking around and struggles to take the logo, he than whistles for help, another one comes in and grabs the logo, it than reveals that the logo was sitting behind a brick wall, the hooligans take the logo and high five each other.
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  Liquidator 2: Welcome to Hell (2005): A warlock comes and draws a fiery pentagram with the upside-down letter "A" and the number "2" at the top (the game's logo in question) on the wall with his staff with the flaming skull at the tip. The pentagram then pulsates and ripples, extinguishing fire in process, and flips mechanically to reveal the nVIDIA logo on the other side, which flashes green, shattering the warlock into pieces like glass, and releases green waves of energy outwards, then cross-fades to just the logo zooming in slowly. As the logo fades out, a heartbeat is heard.
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  Utopia City (2005): The logo is transitioned from the game logo, and is in slightly blue color.
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  Fahrenheit (2005): The logo animates normally with flash of green light present, however just like Gun Metal, it's on a black background and when the logo shines, symbols going in reversed are seen.
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  Starship Troopers (2005): A bunch of soldiers are walking on a black background talking to each other and a giant creature sneaking behind them appears, only to get crushed by the giant logo, the following dialogue is this "Listen up, i want safety's off and extra ammo near the end, this is a combat zone not bootcamp" "I survive zagma, big cake, i dont plan on dying here, not on this rock".
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  Call of Juarez (2006): Juarez is seen ready to draw his gun, the camera pans up to the logo hanging up, it than reveals it's seen from a first person perspective of an POV unknown character dual wielding revolvers, he than shoots the logo, and above near juarez who is pointing his gun and shooting at the character but it misses, causing the logo to fall on juarez crushing him. The character then holsters his revolvers.

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Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004): Same concept as in Unreal Tournament 2003 but this time the gloss is different and it's now a Skaarj named Dominator who suddenly crashes through the inner part of the shield with Gorge (a supersoldier). Dominator than shoots his minigun several times, while the Spider Mine comes in from the left side of the screen, walking towards Dominator, then jumps and explodes, blowing him out of view.

Painkiller (2004): A dead man comes to the logo, but shooting starts and he barely escapes. This is also seen on it's sequels: Battle out of Hell and Overdose, it's also seen on black edition.

Mabinogi (2004): On a white background, the logo is seen in 3D, a sheep charges from the right and headbutts the logo, a cherry drops from the left.

Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (2004): On a white background the logo flips in and fades out.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004): The logo becomes full of blood. A hand appears above the logo then a vampire (Velvet Velour) appears and bites the logo accompanied by a white flash, making the blood come down.

Liquidator 2: Welcome to Hell (2005): A warlock comes and draws a fiery pentagram with the upside-down letter "A" and the number "2" at the top (the game's logo in question) on the wall with his staff with the flaming skull at the tip. The pentagram then pulsates and ripples, extinguishing fire in process, and flips mechanically to reveal the nVIDIA logo on the other side, which flashes green, shattering the warlock into pieces like glass, and releases green waves of energy outwards, then cross-fades to just the logo zooming in slowly. As the logo fades out, a heartbeat is heard.

Starship Troopers (2005): A bunch of soldiers are walking on a black background talking to each other and a giant creature sneaking behind them appears, only to get crushed by the giant logo, the following dialogue is this "Listen up, i want safety's off and extra ammo near the end, this is a combat zone not bootcamp" "I survive zagma, big cake, i dont plan on dying here, not on this rock".

Visuals: In a flash of green light, a black shield and a white circle zoom in, with stripes of various words (like "Powering 3D Graphics", "Personal Cinema", "Geforce FX Ultra", "Geforce Soundstorm", "Workstation Quadro FX", and "3D On every platform") heading from the center like light rays. The circles fold into each other, then the logo flashes timed to the woman’s voice. A stylized eye is depicted inside with "nVIDIA" seen below, while the slogan is seen on an outer circle, with "The way it's" at the top and "meant to be played™" at the bottom.

Variants:

• Both 4:3 and 16:9 versions exist.
• In some games, the logo is still on a black or white background.
• An alternate version of the logo exists. Here, the symbol stripes are heading in a reverse direction, the circle is replaced with a green blurry rectangle flipping in multiple directions, from which the nVIDIA icon is formed, and "nVIDIA" folds in under the icon, letter-by-letter from left to right by a green ball of light. This version was updated in 2006 with the current logo, which shows the entire name completely.
• In some games, the text "GeForce FX" is seen below the Nvidia logo and it's in different shape.
• From 2006-2007, a new version was used with the current logo. "The way it’s meant to be played™" is in a different font, and two curved white lines were added in between the words. This version was short-lived as the next logo replaced it quickly.
• In 2007-2009, an alternate version can be seen where the shield is different, the current logo is seen in the middle and "The way" is at the top, while "it’s meant to be played™" is at the bottom, and the text is in a different font and it's color inverted. It's mostly a still logo.
• A rare version exists which has the logo be a rectangular shaped instead however its mostly seen in cover arts of some games and only appeared in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A swoosh ("Metal Swirl 2" from Spectrasonics' Distored Reality 1 sample CD) building up to a sweeping synth chord ("Acclaimed" from ILIO's Trance Fusion sample CD), then a woman whispering the company name. Composed by Stephen Arnold Music.

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Media Title	Date(s) of Release	Additional Note(s)
Unreal Tournament 2003	September 30, 2002	Custom variant. First appearance.
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way	October 1, 2002	Still variant on copyright screen.
RalliSport Challenge	November 7, 2002	Still variant.
Big Mutha Truckers	March 16, 2003	Still variant.
Chaser	June 20, 2003	Custom variant.
Silent Storm	August 22, 2003	GeForce variant.
Tron 2.0	August 26, 2003
Gun Metal	September 19, 2003	Custom variant.
Freedom Fighters	September 25, 2003	Removed on digital releases.
Bridge It	September 25, 2003	Custom variant.
Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance	November 4, 2003	Custom variant.
Contract J.A.C.K.	November 11, 2003
XIII	November 18, 2003	Alternate variant.
SpellForce: The Order of Dawn	November 28, 2003
X2: The Threat	December 1, 2003
Deus Ex: Invisible War	December 2, 2003
Sacred	February 27, 2004
Unreal Tournament 2004	March 16, 2004	Custom variant.
Beyond Divinity	April 1, 2004
Colin McRae Rally 04	April 2, 2004
Conan	April 7, 2004	Still variant.
Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade	April 8, 2004
Painkiller	April 12, 2004	Custom variant.
TOCA Race Driver 2	April 13, 2004
Hitman: Contracts	April 20, 2004
I-Ninja	April 22, 2004
Silent Storm: Sentinels	April 24, 2004	GeForce variant.
Pac-Man World 2	May 25, 2004
Thief: Deadly Shadows	May 25, 2004
Mabinogi	June 22, 2004	Custom variant.
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus	June 23, 2004	Custom variant.
Spellforce: The Breath of Winter	June 25, 2004
Silent Storm: Gold Edition	September 9, 2004
Star Wars: Battlefront	September 20, 2004	Still variant.
Full Spectrum Warrior	September 21, 2004	Alternate variant.
Colin McRae Rally 2005	September 24, 2004
Evil Genius	September 28, 2004	Removed on digital releases. GeForce variant.
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition	October 11, 2004
FlatOut	November 5, 2004	Still variant.
Spellforce: Shadow of the Phoenix	November 12, 2004
MTX Mototrax	November 15, 2004
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines	November 16, 2004	Custom variant.
Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell	December 1, 2004	Custom variant.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay	December 3, 2004	Custom variant.
Star Wars: Republic Commando	March 1, 2005
Driv3r	March 15, 2005
Sudeki	March 25, 2005
LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game	March 29, 2005
SWAT 4	April 5, 2005
Painkiller: Black Edition	April 18, 2005	Custom variant.
Empire Earth II	April 26, 2005
Boiling Point: Road to Hell	May 19, 2005
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	June 7, 2005	Still logo. Removed on digital releases.
Battlefield 2	June 21, 2005	Only seen in the demo version.
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II	June 29, 2005
Brian Lara International Cricket 2005	July 21, 2005
Bet On Soldier: Blood Sport	August 25, 2005	Custom variant.
Sacred: Gold	August 26, 2005
Fahrenheit	September 16, 2005	Custom variant.
F.E.A.R.	October 18, 2005
Age of Empires III	October 18, 2005
Starship Troopers	October 27, 2005	Custom variant.
Crime Life: Gang Wars	November 11, 2005	Custom variant.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	November 14, 2005
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse	November 21, 2005	Removed on digital releases.
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege	November 25, 2005
Utopia City	December 2, 2005	Custom variant.
Liquidator 2: Welcome to Hell	December 9, 2005	Custom variant.
Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy	February 14, 2006
TOCA Race Driver 3	February 21, 2006
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate	February 28, 2006
Commandos: Strike Force	March 17, 2006
SWAT 4: Gold Edition	April 5, 2006
Tomb Raider: Legend	April 7, 2006
SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars	April 7, 2006
Hitman: Blood Money	May 26, 2006
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers	May 27, 2006
Titan Quest	June 26, 2006
FlatOut 2	June 30, 2006
Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara	July 3, 2006	Custom variant.
El Matador	September 8, 2006
Company of Heroes	September 11, 2006
Joint Task Force	September 12, 2006
Call of Juarez	September 15, 2006	Custom variant. This is not seen on the American 2007 release.
Broken Sword: The Angel of Death	September 15, 2006
Caesar IV	September 26, 2006
Stronghold: Legends	October 13, 2006
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade	October 9, 2006
Sid Meier's Railroads!	October 17, 2006
F.E.A.R. Extraction Point	October 24, 2006
Neverwinter Nights 2	October 31, 2006
Bet on Soldier: Black-out Saigon	November 9, 2006	Custom variant.
Medieval II: Total War	November 10, 2006
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos	November 14, 2006
Supreme Commander	February 16, 2007
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne	March 2, 2007
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl	March 20, 2007	Rare variant.
SpellForce 2: Dragon Storm	March 23, 2007
Tomb Raider: Anniversary	June 1, 2007	Still 2007-2009 variant.
Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms	August 28, 2007
World in Conflict	September 18, 2007
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts	September 25, 2007
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer	September 28, 2007
TimeShift	October 2, 2007	The 3rd logo below appears on some box arts from behind.
Painkiller: Overdose	October 30, 2007	Custom variant.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm	March 14, 2008
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway	October 7, 2008	Still 2007-2009 variant.
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir	November 18, 2008
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault	March 10, 2009	Still 2007-2009 variant.
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor	April 9, 2009
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate	April 29, 2009	Final appearance.

3rd Logo (June 26, 2007-September 15, 2016)

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  Borderlands (2009): The logo plays as normal, but fails to light up at the end. A small yellow robot (Claptrap, the de-facto mascot of the Borderlands franchise, voiced by David Eddings) rolls in from the right, and hits the shield multiple times, trying to light it up. Just as he gives up, the shield lights up as intended. Claptrap notices this and presents the logo.
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  Metro 2033 (2010): The logo appears still as a black powder drops on the floor. The powder then flows away. It then glitches out.
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  Just Cause 2 (2010): Similar to the other logo's in the game, the logo is on a blue and white background and the camera zooms in close to the screen and sits right next to "Avalanche Studios", transitioning to the title screen.
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  The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011): The logo is seen on a yellow background.
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  Duke Nukem Forever (2011): The logo is seen on the copyright screen hanging next to "Unreal Technology" and "Logitech" logos, all three logos flash followed by Duke's voice line "Yeah, I'm looking good.", in which Duke Nukem is voiced by Jon St. John.
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  Batman: Arkham City (2011): The logo is different animated on a black background with multiple green floating circles visible. Additionally, the music is ran at half-speed until the Nvidia voiceover.
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  Metro Last Light (2013): The logo is seen as a text while the background slowly goes through a tunnel with lights and electricity. This was also seen in the Redux version.
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  Metro 2033 Redux (2014): Similar to the previous variant, but the tunnel is different and it goes through faster.

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Borderlands (2009): The logo plays as normal, but fails to light up at the end. A small yellow robot (Claptrap, the de-facto mascot of the Borderlands franchise, voiced by David Eddings) rolls in from the right, and hits the shield multiple times, trying to light it up. Just as he gives up, the shield lights up as intended. Claptrap notices this and presents the logo.

Metro 2033 (2010): The logo appears still as a black powder drops on the floor. The powder then flows away. It then glitches out.

Visuals: Same as the previous logo, but the stripe words are green, the circles are replaced with rounded rectangles (with colors inverted) which appear from a three-dimensional light shape, and the current logo (an all-green stylized eye shape and "nVIDIA" in a different font) is used. "THE WAY IT'S MEANT TO BE PLAYED™" is also in a different font. The logo shines at the end.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Stephen Arnold Music's theme from the previous logo.

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Media Title	Date(s) of Release	Additional Note(s)
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition	June 26, 2007	First appearence.
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword	July 20, 2007
BioShock	August 21, 2007
The Witcher	October 25, 2007	Still logo, the previous logo appears on box art.
Empire Earth III	November 6, 2007
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance	November 6, 2007
F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate	November 6, 2007
Crysis	November 13, 2007
Unreal Tournament 3	November 19, 2007
Hellgate: London	October 31, 2007	The previous logo appears on box art.
Universe at War: Earth Assault	December 10, 2007
Conflict: Denied Ops	February 8, 2008
Frontlines: Fuel of War	February 25, 2008
WorldShift	May 8, 2008
Devil May Cry 4	July 8, 2008	Still logo.
Space Siege	August 12, 2008
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition	September 16, 2008	Still logo, the previous logo appears on box art.
Crysis Warhead	September 16, 2008
Civilization IV: Colonization	September 23, 2008
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel	October 2, 2008
MotoGP 08	October 24, 2008
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II	February 18, 2009
Street Fighter IV	July 2, 2009	Still logo.
Bionic Commando (2009)	July 28, 2009
Darkest of Days	September 8, 2009
Batman: Arkham Asylum	September 15, 2009
Resident Evil 5	September 17, 2009	Still logo.
Order of War	September 17, 2009
Sacred 2: Gold Edition	November 11, 2009
Tropico 3	October 20, 2009
Tropico 3 Steam Special Edition	October 21, 2009
Borderlands	October 26, 2009	Custom variant.
Disciples III: Renaissance	October 11, 2009
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - Platinum Edition	January 19, 2010	Still logo, the previous logo appears on box art.
Dark Void	January 19, 2010
BioShock 2	February 9, 2010
Metro 2033	March 16, 2010	Custom variant.
Just Cause 2	March 23, 2010	Custom variant.
Batman: Arkham Asylum - Game of the Year Edition	March 26, 2010
Tropico 3: Absolute Power	May 13, 2010
Mafia II	August 24, 2010
Sid Meier's Civilization V	September 21, 2010
Dead Rising 2	September 28, 2010	Still logo.
Tropico 3: Gold Edition	September 28, 2010
Lost Planet 2	October 12, 2010	Still logo.
Arcania: Gothic 4	October 12, 2010
Farming Simulator 11	October 29, 2010
Disciples III: Resurrection	December 3, 2010
Homefront	March 15, 2011
Crysis 2	March 22, 2011
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings	May 17, 2011	Custom variant.
Duke Nukem Forever (2011)	June 10, 2011	Custom variant.
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition	July 5, 2011
Farming Simulator 2011: Platinum Edition	September 22, 2011
ArcaniA: Fall of Setarrif	October 24, 2011
Batman: Arkham City	November 22, 2011	Custom variant.
Disciples III: Gold Edition	April 13, 2012
Disciples III: Reincarnation	April 18, 2012
Street Fighter X Tekken	May 11, 2012
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition	September 7, 2012
Borderlands 2	September 18, 2012
Farming Simulator 2013	October 25, 2012
Aliens: Colonial Marines	February 12, 2013
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2	March 12, 2013
Metro: Last Light	May 14, 2013	Custom variant.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified	August 20, 2013
Lost Planet 3	August 27, 2013
Batman: Arkham Origins	October 25, 2013
Ultra Street Fighter IV	August 8, 2014
Metro 2033 Redux	August 26, 2014	Custom variant.
Metro Last Light Redux	August 26, 2014	Custom variant.
Farming Simulator 2013: Game of the Year Edition	October 1, 2014
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	October 17, 2014
Bioshock Remastered	September 15, 2016
BioShock 2 Remastered	September 15, 2016	Last appearence.

4th Logo (November 19, 2013-)

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Visuals: An explosion of green light occurs, sending other green lights which form the nVIDIA icon while the trademark text appears below. The logo zooms in and moves to the left to make space for the stacked words "THE WAY" (1st row) "IT'S MEANT" (2nd row) "TO BE PLAYED" (3rd row), which appear moving from left to right.

Variant: Depending on the game, the icon may appear in a lighter or darker shade of green.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Digital sounds, with some quiet reverse cymbals when the words appear.

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Media Title	Date(s) of Release	Additional Note(s)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag	November 19, 2013	First appearance.
Farming Simulator 15	October 30, 2014
Assassin's Creed: Unity	November 11, 2014
Far Cry 4	November 18, 2014
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	May 19, 2015
Batman: Arkham Knight	June 23, 2015
Farming Simulator 15: Gold Edition	October 29, 2015
Need for Speed	March 15, 2016
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition	August 30, 2016
Mafia III	October 7, 2016
Farming Simulator 17	October 24, 2016
Watch Dogs 2	November 29, 2016
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands	March 7, 2017
Farming Simulator 19	November 19, 2018
Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced	April 3, 2019
Mafia 3: Definitive Edition	May 19, 2020
Phantasy Star Online 2	August 5, 2020	Still logo. International releases only.
Cyberpunk 2077	December 10, 2020
Baldur's Gate 3	August 3, 2023	Still logo.