Today's Most Popular Franchises
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Dragon Ball Z
The Dragon Ball video game series is based on the popular anime tv series and manga series of the same name, and encompasses games from a variety of genres, most notably fighters and action/adventure titles. -
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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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Angry Birds
Angry Birds is a cross-platform puzzle/platforming game by Rovio Entertainment which first made its debut on Apple's App Store in December 2009. In this game, the player must use birds with different abilities to destroy enemy pigs. -
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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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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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Zoo Tycoon
The Zoo Tycoon franchise of games allow players to create, maintain and manage their own zoos. -
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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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Super Mario Bros.
The most iconic franchise of the gaming medium, Super Mario Bros. began in 1985 with the release of the game with the same title which was bundled with the NES upon purchase. Consisting solely of platforming titles, the franchise has a commonly occuring plot revolving around the kidnapping of Princess Peach by Bowser or his minions, requiring Mario, the primary protagonist, to come to her rescue. The style of gameplay is also consistent throughout the entirety of the franchise. -
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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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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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Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell is a series of stealth-oriented third person shooters developed by Ubisoft Montreal. -
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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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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.
