ALIVE Retrospective Tops Game*Spark's Weekly Top Five
Game*Spark's weekly ranking for Oct 30 to Nov 5, 2026 lists the five most-read articles on the site. First place goes to a retrospective on ALIVE, a 1998 PlayStation adventure game set in a 2020 surveillance society.
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Why it matters
Three of the five entries look back at older games and one reports a studio closure, so the week's most-read list carries a single entry about a game released on Nov 5.
Below it: a developer interview for the roguelite action game Mugen Sakura Roukaku, a Tales of Destiny discovery 29 years after release, the dissolution of Nagoshi Studio, and a column on Armored Core 3 and Silent Line.
Game*Spark's weekly ranking counts the five articles read most on the site between Oct 30 and Nov 5, 2026. The top slot is a retrospective on ALIVE, a 1998 PlayStation adventure game that imagines a 2020 surveillance society.
Three of the five entries are looks back at older games. One reports the dissolution of Nagoshi Studio, resolved at an Oct 31 shareholders meeting and published in the official gazette on Nov 2. One is an interview about a game released on Nov 5.
- ALIVE retrospective: 1st; 1998 PlayStation adventure game set in a 2020 surveillance society
- Mugen Sakura Roukaku developer interview: 2nd; roguelite action game released Nov 5, 2026
- Tales of Destiny Lilith discovery: 3rd; Lilith recruitable in normal play 29 years after release
- Nagoshi Studio dissolution: 4th; resolved at the Oct 31, 2026 shareholders meeting, gazette notice Nov 2
- Armored Core 3 and Silent Line column: 5th; Ollie Bader on the two Armored Core games
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