Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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Street Fighter
The Street Fighter series is a series of fighting games developed and published by Capcom. -
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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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Sly Cooper
The Sly Cooper franchise is a series of platformers that were developed for Sony's platforms, with the first three being released on the Playstation 2 and the fourth one on the Playstation 3 and the PS Vita. They weren't pure platformers, as all of the games included stealth gameplay elements in them. -
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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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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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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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Data Hacker
Data Hacker is a series of RPGs developed and published by indie studio New Reality Games. -
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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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Far Cry
Far Cry is a franchise of FPS games with a heavy emphasis on free roaming first-person shooting gameplay. -
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Donkey Kong Country
The Donkey Kong Country franchise is a series of side-scrolling platformers that total five games and all published by Nintendo. The first three games were developed by Rare for the Super Nintendo, and were later ported to the Game Boy Advance, with some changes and even exclusive content. -
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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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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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LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet is a series of user generated content driven platforming games originally developed by Media Molecule. It is exclusive to the PlayStation family of platforms. Every game in the series puts a strong emphasis on user generated content and are based on the main slogan "Play, Create, Share". -
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Prototype
The Prototype series of games are open world action-adventure games that were developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. Prototype was released in North America on June 9, 2009 and in Europe on June 12, 2009 for Playstation 3, XBox 360 and PC. Prototype 2 was released in North America on April 24, 2012 for the Playstation 3 and XBox 360, and on July 24, 2012 for PC. -
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Fable
The Fable series takes place in the fictional nation of Albion, a state that, at the time of the first game, is composed of numerous autonomous city-states with vast areas of countryside or wilderness in between. The setting originally resemblesMedieval England ("Albion" being the oldest name for the island of Great Britain), or traditional fantasy settings like that of The Lord of the Rings. However, the period of time progresses with each game; in Fable II, Albion has advanced to an era similar to that of the Age of Enlightenment, and by Fable III the nation has been unified under a monarchy and is undergoing an "Age of Industry" similar to the real-world 19th-century Industrial Revolution. -
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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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Max
The Max franchise is a series of platforming games developed by Press Play that feature the titular Max, who uses his magic marker pen to make his way past various obstacles in order to rescue his little brother Felix. -
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Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry is an Action Hack and Slash game with emphasis on flashy gameplay. Originally, development was started as Resident Evil 4 but after quite a bit of work, it became apparent that the game they had created was not a Resident Evil game. The gameplay was too fast, the main character was too powerful and the atmosphere not scary enough. The game was instead rebranded as Devil May Cry with a demo disk first released as bonus to those who bought Resident Evil: Code Veronica X.
