Today's Most Popular Franchises
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Mario Strikers
Super Mario Strikers is a 2 game series is developped by Next Level Games. The first game, Super Mario Strikers (know as Mario Smash Football in Europe) was released on November 25th, 2005 eclusively for the GameCube. Then, on May 25th, 2007, Next Level Games released Mario Strikers Charged (known as Mario Strikers Charged Football in Europe) exclusively for the Wii. -
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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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Sly Cooper
The Sly Cooper franchise is a series of platformers that were developed for Sony's platforms, with the first three being released on the Playstation 2 and the fourth one on the Playstation 3 and the PS Vita. They weren't pure platformers, as all of the games included stealth gameplay elements in them. -
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LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet is a series of user generated content driven platforming games originally developed by Media Molecule. It is exclusive to the PlayStation family of platforms. Every game in the series puts a strong emphasis on user generated content and are based on the main slogan "Play, Create, Share". -
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Marl Kingdom
Marl Kingdom or Marl's Kingdom s a series of Japanese RPGs developed by Nippon Ichi Software. The three main games in the series are Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Little Princess: Marl Ōkoku no Ningyō Hime 2, and Tenshi no Present: Marl Ōkoku Monogatari. -
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Dept. Heaven
Dept. Heaven is a franchise by Sting Entertainment containing a number of different episodes. -
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Naruto: Ninja Council
Naruto: Ninja Council (known as Naruto: Saikyō Ninja Daikesshū in Japan), is a series of action games based on the popular manga and anime series of the same name. They are developed by Aspect and published by Tomy for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. -
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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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Crysis
Crysis is a series of futuristic first-person shooters developed by Crytek and published by Electronic Arts. -
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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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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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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.
