Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms is a series of first person shooter video games based on World War II that are published by Ubisoft. Most storylines in the series focus on the liberation of Europe in the 1940s. -
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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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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. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mario Strikers
Super Mario Strikers is a 2 game series is developped by Next Level Games. The first game, Super Mario Strikers (know as Mario Smash Football in Europe) was released on November 25th, 2005 eclusively for the GameCube. Then, on May 25th, 2007, Next Level Games released Mario Strikers Charged (known as Mario Strikers Charged Football in Europe) exclusively for the Wii. -
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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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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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The Legend of Heroes
The Legend of Heroes is a series of role-playing games developed by Nihon Falcom Corporation. -
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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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Crysis
Crysis is a series of futuristic first-person shooters developed by Crytek and published by Electronic Arts. -
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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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Shenmue
Shenmue is an interactive cinema open-world adventure video game series created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki and developed and published by Sega. Shenmue was listed in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive video game produced for its time, with a production budget of US$70 million, equivalent to $95 million in 2011 adjusting for inflation. It consists of 16 chapters and is currently unfinished. -
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Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts is a worldwide critically and commercially acclaimed series developed as a collaboration between Square Enix and Disney Studios. Under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura, the series started in 2002 with the release of the first game of the series, Kingdom Hearts, and since then the series consists of multiple games released on various platforms. -
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Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. is an award winning series of fighting games published by Nintendo. The gameplay differs from traditional fighting games ,because instead of depleting the player's life bars, the object is to knock them off of the playing fiield. All three games in the series were directed by Masahiro Sakurai.
