Today's Most Popular Franchises
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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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Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell is a series of stealth-oriented third person shooters developed by Ubisoft Montreal. -
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Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, known in Japan as PERSONA is a series of role-playing video games developed and published by Atlus. The series is a spin-off of the Megami Tensei series which focuses on demon summoners. However, the Persona series centers around groups of teenagers who have the ability to summon facets of their psyche, known as Personas, into being. The game draws many elements from Jungian psychology and various Jungian archetypes. -
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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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Shenmue
Shenmue is an interactive cinema open-world adventure video game series created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki and developed and published by Sega. Shenmue was listed in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive video game produced for its time, with a production budget of US$70 million, equivalent to $95 million in 2011 adjusting for inflation. It consists of 16 chapters and is currently unfinished. -
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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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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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Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a series of sci-fi action role-playing video games, developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3 starting with the second installment, and the Wii U starting with the third. -
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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.
