Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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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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Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is an award-winning, historical fiction, action-adventure, open world, stealth video game series released by Ubisoft. The series, which consists of five main video games and many other releases across different media, follows the Assassin Order as they fight against Templar Order. -
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Plants vs. Zombies
The Plants vs. Zombies Franchise is developed by PopCap Games and published by Electronic Arts. The Franchise follows a nameless, voiceless protagonist as he attempts to defend himself and his house from the zombie horde by the use of special plants. If he fails, then the zombies will eat his "Brainz". Joined by his insane neighbor, Crazy Dave, the protagonist must hold out for as long as possible and possibly even save the world. -
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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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Gears of War
Gears of War is a third-person shooter video game franchise created and owned by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Studios. The three games that currently make up the series take place on the fictional earth-like planet Sera and focus on a war between humans and creatures known as Locust and Lambent. -
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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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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. -
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BioShock
BioShock is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (now known as Irrational Games) and designed by Ken Levine. A sequel, BioShock 2, was developed by 2K Marin and released in 2010 and a third title in the series, BioShock Infinite, released in 2013. -
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Fallout
Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games created by Interplay Entertainment. Although the series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, its retrofuturistic story and artwork are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s America, and its combination of hope for the promises of technology and lurking fear of nuclear annihilation. -
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Megami Tensei
Megami Tensei, commonly abbreviated as MegaTen, is a Japanese role-playing video game metaseries which was originally based on the novel series "Digital Devil Story" by Aya Nishitani. It has gone on to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country with the games published by Atlus with the exception of the Famicom/NES games, which were published by Namco. -
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NBA 2K
NBA 2K is a basketball franchise created by Visual Concepts and was made when EA would not publish its sports franchises on the Dreamcast. -
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Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs is a series of action/adventure games, developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. -
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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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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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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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Data Hacker
Data Hacker is a series of RPGs developed and published by indie studio New Reality Games.
