Today's Most Popular Franchises
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The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is a fantasy action-adventure video game series created by game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. -
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Mario Kart
Mario Kart is a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed and published by Nintendo as a series of spin-offs from its trademark Super Mario series of video games. The first in the series, Super Mario Kart, was launched in 1992 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to both critical and commercial success. -
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Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell is a series of stealth-oriented third person shooters developed by Ubisoft Montreal. -
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StarCraft
StarCraft is a real-time strategy series of Sci-fi developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. -
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Forza Motorsport
Forza Motorsport is a popular and critically acclaimed series of racing simulation video games for the Xbox and Xbox 360 platforms developed by Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. -
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Call of Duty
Call of duty is a first and third person computer/console game franchise. The series began on pc then later came to consoles and handhelds. Several spin-off games have also been produced. The early games in the series have been set around world war 2 these games include call of duty, call of duty 2 and call of duty 3. Then the franchise shifted to modern times, producing call of duty 4: modern warfare then came call of duty world at war then call of duty modern warfare 2 next came black ops set in the cold war. Next came modern warfare 3 which was set in the near future Then last but not least is black ops 2 which takes place in 2025. -
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Gran Turismo
The Gran Turismo franchise is a series of racing video games developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony for various PlayStation platforms. Gran Turismo, abbreviated to GT, stands for Grand Touring. -
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Emergency
Emergency is a series of strategy/simulation video games which task players with directing emergency rescue operations. -
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Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem is a franchise of Turn-Based Strategy RPGs. Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Tsurugi, the first game of the franchise, was released exclusively in Japan for the Famicom in 1990. Since then, the franchise has released games on the Famicon, Super Famicom, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. The first six Fire Emblem games were released exclusivley in Japan, while the seventh through the eleventh were localized worldwide. The twelfth saw no English release, but the franchise has recently regained a North American presence with Fire Emblem: Awakening. -
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WWE
WWE Games (formerly, WWF SmackDown!, WWE SmackDown!, and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw) is a series of professional wrestling games first released by THQ until 2013, when Take-Two Interactive's 2K Sports took over. -
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MX vs. ATV
MX vs. ATV is a racing game franchise developed by Rainbow Studios (previously known as THQ Digital Phoenix). -
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UFC
The UFC is a series of games based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts sport based in the United States. -
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog is a franchise originally developed by Sonic Team, and published by Sega. The games were originally platformers, but the franchise has branched out to include more genres. -
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Warcraft
Warcraft is a series of fantasy games, novels and other media developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Since the first launch on November 1994 when the company released their first RTS Warcraft game, Blizzard excelled by reinventing the fantasy RTS concept. Later in 2004, they launched World of Warcraft, the MMORPG with the largest database of monthly subscribers. -
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Diablo
Diablo is an action-adventure RPG developed by Blizzard North, and designed by Erich Schaefer, David Brevik, Max Schaefer, Eric Sexton, and Kenneth Williams. Diablo was released for the PC on January 2, 1997 and later it was released of the playstation in March 1998. It was rated mature because of the blood and gore as well as the violent influence.The first Diablo released was quickly followed up by Diablo II. After nearly a whole decade later Blizzard released Diablo III -
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Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs), but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise. -
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Halo
Halo is a multi-billion dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant are led by their religious leaders, The Prophets, and worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners, who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood. Many of the games center on the experiences of Master Chief John-117, a cybernetically enhanced human super-soldier, and his artificial intelligence (AI) companion, Cortana. The term "Halo" refers to Halo megastructures: large, habitable ringed structures, similar to the Orbitals in Iain M Banks' Culture novels, or author Larry Niven's Ringworld. -
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Need for Speed
The Need for Speed franchise is a multi-platorm series of racing games developed by Electronic Arts. Need for Speed was created by Canadian developer Distinctive Software before an EA buyout in 1991. -
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Super Mario
Super Mario is a series of platformers developed and published by Nintendo for their systems. The series is one of Nintendo's flagship franchises, as it has sold over 250 million copies across all games in the series, making it the best selling franchise in video game history. There has been a Super Mario game released for every single major Nintendo console/handheld since Super Mario Bros. in 1985 on the Nintendo Entertainment System. -
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Tales
The Tales franchise is a series of fantasy Japanese role-playing video games, published by Namco Bandai Games (formerly Namco) and primarily developed by its subsidiary, Namco Tales Studio.
