Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Need for Speed
The Need for Speed franchise is a multi-platorm series of racing games developed by Electronic Arts. Need for Speed was created by Canadian developer Distinctive Software before an EA buyout in 1991. -
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a series of sci-fi action role-playing video games, developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3 starting with the second installment, and the Wii U starting with the third. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Street Fighter
The Street Fighter series is a series of fighting games developed and published by Capcom. -
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Close Ups
The Close Ups franchise is a series of word / trivia games developed by Mediaflex Games and released on iOS and Android.
