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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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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StarCraft II
StarCrafr II is a trilogy of real-time strategy series of Sci-fi developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. The game pits the three races: Terrans, Zerg and Protoss in the battle for the galactic supremacy. -
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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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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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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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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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Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct is a classic fighting franchise developed originally by Rare. The first entry in the franchise - Killer Instinct - released in 1994. A sequel - Killer Instinct 2/Gold - soon followed and was released in 1996. Since then, however, there have been no releases in the franchise. -
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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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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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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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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.
