Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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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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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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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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Octodad
Octodad is a series of action/adventure games developed by fledgling indie developer Young Horses. The games put players in control of the titular Octodad, an undercover octopus posing as a human. -
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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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Saints Row
Saints Row is a video game franchise created by Volition, Inc. and published by Deep Silver. Gameplay is presented in open world format. Because of the mixture of nonlinear gameplay with action-adventure and racing sequences, the series is referred to as being sandbox style. -
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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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Far Cry
Far Cry is a franchise of FPS games with a heavy emphasis on free roaming first-person shooting gameplay. -
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Diablo
Diablo is an action-adventure RPG developed by Blizzard North, and designed by Erich Schaefer, David Brevik, Max Schaefer, Eric Sexton, and Kenneth Williams. Diablo was released for the PC on January 2, 1997 and later it was released of the playstation in March 1998. It was rated mature because of the blood and gore as well as the violent influence.The first Diablo released was quickly followed up by Diablo II. After nearly a whole decade later Blizzard released Diablo III -
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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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Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei commonly abbreviated as MegaTen in Japan is a Japanese role-playing video game franchise which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani and has gone on to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country. The games are published by Atlus with the exception of the Famicom/SNES games, which were published by Namco.
