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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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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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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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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Ar tonelico
The Ar tonelico series is a series of three role-playing video games developed by Gust for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. All three games take place in the world of Ar Ciel, with each game residing in the regions around on of the three towers or Ar Ciel: Sol Ciel, Metafalss, and Sol Cluster. -
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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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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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Crysis
Crysis is a series of futuristic first-person shooters developed by Crytek and published by Electronic Arts. -
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Kirby
Kirby, the awesome, tough-as-nails pink puff-ball! Originally debuting in Kirby's Dreamland on the Nintendo Gameboy, Kirby was first depicted as black and white due to the Gameboy's graphical limitations. Kirby was created by Masahiro Sakurai when he worked at HAL Laboratory. However, he Sakurai has not worked on a Kirby game since 2003 when he left HAL Laboratory and went on to begin his own company, Sora Ltd., where he dedicated his work primarily to the Super Smash Bros. series and most recently Kid Icarus Uprising. Despite Masahiro Sakurai's departure, Kirby games continue to be developed by HAL Laboratory. -
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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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Metroid
Metroid is a series of action games created by Yoshio Sakamoto and Gunpei Yokoi. All of the games in the series are published by Nintendo. The franchise follows the adventures of bounty hunter Samus. It is famous for having one of the first female protagonists in a video game. -
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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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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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Tekken
Tekken is a fighting game franchise created, developed and published by Namco (later Namco Bandai Games). Beginning with the original Tekken in 1994, the series has received several sequels as well as updates and spin-off titles, as well as three films and other media. -
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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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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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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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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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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.
