Franchises

Evergreen content grouped around gaming series, publishers, universes, and recurring IP that stand the test of time.

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Animal Crossing

Nintendo's life-sim series — slow, seasonal, conversational, and quietly one of the most influential game designs of the last twenty years.

5 games covered

Franchise

Assassin's Creed

Ubisoft's long-running historical-action series — from the stealth-focused original trilogy to the modern RPG-scale epics.

7 games covered

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Battlefield

DICE's large-scale military shooter franchise — vehicles, destruction, and 64-player chaos across three decades of release cycles.

9 games covered

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Borderlands

Gearbox's cel-shaded looter-shooter series — guns by the million, characters by the dozen, tonal whiplash by design.

6 games covered

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Call of Duty

Activision's annual first-person shooter franchise — the defining commercial FPS of the last two decades, and one of the most-argued-about series in gaming.

7 games covered

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Cyberpunk

CD Projekt Red's neon-soaked open-world RPG — from a famously rocky launch through the Phantom Liberty redemption arc and beyond.

4 games covered

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Donkey Kong

Nintendo's heavyweight platforming series — from Rare's Country trilogy to Retro Studios' revival and beyond.

6 games covered

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The Elder Scrolls

Bethesda's flagship open-world fantasy RPG series, spanning Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and the long-awaited Elder Scrolls VI.

7 games covered

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Fallout

The post-apocalyptic RPG series that began with Interplay's isometric classics and evolved under Bethesda into one of gaming's most recognisable open worlds.

6 games covered

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Final Fantasy

Square Enix's flagship JRPG series, one of the most influential and long-running franchises in gaming history.

6 games covered

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Gears of War

The cover-shooter franchise that defined Xbox 360's identity and now spans three studios, three console generations, and a long-anticipated cross-platform return.

8 games covered

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Ghost Series

Sucker Punch's open-world samurai saga — from Jin Sakai's defence of Tsushima to the standalone follow-up Ghost of Yotei.

4 games covered

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God of War

Sony Santa Monica's action series — a Greek-mythology brawler that reinvented itself as a Norse-mythology character study without losing the combat.

6 games covered

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Grand Theft Auto

Rockstar Games' defining open-world crime series — the franchise that repeatedly rewrote what a sandbox game could be.

6 games covered

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Halo

The Xbox-defining sci-fi FPS series that set the benchmark for console shooters and then spent two decades trying to live up to its own launch title.

8 games covered

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Hitman

IO Interactive's stealth-sandbox series — social stealth, emergent disguises, and levels that feel more like systems than stages.

5 games covered

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Horizon

Guerrilla Games' post-post-apocalyptic action RPG series — Aloy, the machines, and the slow uncovering of what really happened to the old world.

5 games covered

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Mafia

Hangar 13's organised-crime drama series — narrative-driven, period-perfect, and one of the few open-world franchises that puts story above sandbox.

7 games covered

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Mario

Nintendo's flagship platformer franchise — the most consistently well-made game series in the industry, across 2D, 3D, spin-offs, and beyond.

7 games covered

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Metal Gear

Hideo Kojima's legendary stealth action series that pioneered cinematic storytelling in games and defined the stealth genre.

6 games covered

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Minecraft

Mojang's sandbox-building phenomenon — one of the most-played games in history, and still a genuinely singular creative engine.

4 games covered

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Monster Hunter

Capcom's action-RPG series built around hunts, crafting loops, and a weapon roster that rewards genuine mastery.

6 games covered

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Mortal Kombat

NetherRealm's long-running fighting series — from arcade shock in 1992 to the most cinematic story modes in the fighting genre.

7 games covered

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Ninja Gaiden

Tecmo / Team Ninja's unforgiving action series — the 3D reboot era set the template for difficulty-as-identity in character-action games.

6 games covered

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Pokémon

Game Freak and Nintendo's monster-collection RPG series — the most commercially successful media franchise on Earth, and one of gaming's most debated.

8 games covered

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Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar's western epic — a two-game, three-era saga about outlaws, loyalty, and the closing of the American frontier.

4 games covered

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Shinobi

Sega's long-running ninja action series — from arcade icon to modern revival under Lizardcube.

5 games covered

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Soulsborne

FromSoftware's genre-defining action RPG series, spanning Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring.

7 games covered

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Star Wars

Games set in the Star Wars universe across half a century — from LucasArts' classic era to modern action-adventures and everything between.

6 games covered

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Syberia

Benoît Sokal's adventure-game series — Kate Walker's journey across Europe and into the wild, Microids' flagship narrative IP.

6 games covered

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The Witcher

CD Projekt Red's dark-fantasy RPG trilogy, adapted from Andrzej Sapkowski's novels and built around Geralt of Rivia's morally grey world.

6 games covered

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Tomb Raider

The action-adventure series that made Lara Croft an icon — from 90s polygon puzzles to the modern Crystal Dynamics reboot trilogy.

9 games covered

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The Legend of Zelda

Nintendo's legendary adventure franchise, from the original NES classic through Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

8 games covered