Today's Most Popular Franchises
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (known as the Naruto: Narutimate Series in Japan), is a series of fighting games based on the popular manga and anime series of the same name. They were developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco Bandai. -
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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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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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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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Disgaea
Disgaea is a video game series of tactical role-playing games developed by Nippon Ichi Software. Debuting in Japan on January 30, 2003, with Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, it became one of Nippon Ichi's most popular franchises and has branched off into both a manga and anime series. -
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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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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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The Elder Scrolls
The Elder Scrolls (abbreviated as TES) is an action role-playing open world video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. -
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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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Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, known in Japan as PERSONA is a series of role-playing video games developed and published by Atlus. The series is a spin-off of the Megami Tensei series which focuses on demon summoners. However, the Persona series centers around groups of teenagers who have the ability to summon facets of their psyche, known as Personas, into being. The game draws many elements from Jungian psychology and various Jungian archetypes. -
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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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Hitman
Hitman is a series of stealth-oriented third-person shooters developed by Io Interactive and published first by Eidos Interactive and then Square Enix when it acquired the latter. -
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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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Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon is a farming simulation released on the SNES in 1997. In the game you improve your farm and farming techniques, make money from selling your produce, romance the women of the town, and eventually take a wife and start a family. -
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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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The Legend of Heroes
The Legend of Heroes is a series of role-playing games developed by Nihon Falcom Corporation. -
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Left 4 Dead
The Left 4 Dead series consists of two main entries and several pieces of DLC. Players take on the role of one of four survivors and must work together with the other three to progress through levels packed with zombies to safety points. -
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Eve
The EVE Online franchise is based around the game EVE Online, a space-based science fiction MMORPG for Windows PC and Mac OS that is developed and published by CCP. -
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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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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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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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Street Fighter
The Street Fighter series is a series of fighting games developed and published by Capcom. -
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Dragon Ball Z
The Dragon Ball video game series is based on the popular anime tv series and manga series of the same name, and encompasses games from a variety of genres, most notably fighters and action/adventure titles.
