Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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Runescape
Runescape is the largest free MMORPG in the world, it is developed by Jagex game studios. Runescape is a fantasy RPG game developed and released in 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower. Runescape itself has over 200 million registered accounts, 10million of these accounts are active accounts and an average of around 100,000 players on at any moment. -
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Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Look out, here comes that little orange rat again! Whenever the Outback is in danger Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is the thylacine to call! Ty the Tasmanian Tiger was an original franchise developed by Krome Studios, what was once the largest video game development studio in Australia, and published by EA (for 1 & 2) and Activision (for 3). All three console games were 3D platformers, the last two games being open world as well. Franchise staples include a large selection of different boomerangs, giant robot suits, over-the-top Australian accents, and vehicles. The franchise is jam packed with Australian culture and folk lore. The final two games recieved GBA ports and they were 2D platformers. The creator of the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger franchise is Steve Stamatiadis, also known for his web-comic series, Blade Kitten. -
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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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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. -
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Fabula Nova Crystallis
Fabula Nova Crystallis is a mythology created by Yoshinori Kitase and Kazushige Nojima of Square Enix. The mythology was used as an inspiration to create the world in multiple Final Fantasy games; Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy Type-0, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and the upcoming Final Fantasy XV. -
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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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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. -
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (known as the Naruto: Narutimate Series in Japan), is a series of fighting games based on the popular manga and anime series of the same name. They were developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco Bandai.
