Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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. -
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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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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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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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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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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. -
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Mario Golf
Mario Golf is a sports series developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Gamecube, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 3DS. -
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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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Super Mario Bros.
The most iconic franchise of the gaming medium, Super Mario Bros. began in 1985 with the release of the game with the same title which was bundled with the NES upon purchase. Consisting solely of platforming titles, the franchise has a commonly occuring plot revolving around the kidnapping of Princess Peach by Bowser or his minions, requiring Mario, the primary protagonist, to come to her rescue. The style of gameplay is also consistent throughout the entirety of the franchise.
