Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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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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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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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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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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Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei commonly abbreviated as MegaTen in Japan is a Japanese role-playing video game franchise which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani and has gone on to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country. The games are published by Atlus with the exception of the Famicom/SNES games, which were published by Namco. -
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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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Alien
The Alien series of games are based on the Alien franchise of science fiction horror films that star Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) and focus on her battles against an Alien life form. -
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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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Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is a Valve Software franchise that was born during 1999 as a modification of Half-Life done independently by Jess Cliffe and Minh Le. As popularity grew and further versions of the mod were released, Valve Software bought the rights to Counter-Strike and continued its development. Finally in November of 2000, Counter-Strike was released. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alone in the Dark
Alone in the Dark is a series of survival horror titles created by Infogrames and heavily inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's writing.
