Franchises

Batman is one of the most enduring fictional characters in the history of entertainment. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and first appearing in Detective Comics issue 27 in May 1939, Bruce Wayne has spent over 85 years as Gotham City's dark knight across comics, radio, television, film, animation, and video games. The Batman…

Dead by Daylight is an asymmetric multiplayer horror franchise developed and published by Behaviour Interactive, launched June 2016 on PC and subsequently released on all major platforms. The game pits four survivors against one killer in a cat-and-mouse horror scenario where survivors must repair generators and escape while the killer hunts and sacrifices them to…

Gears of War is a military science fiction video game franchise created by Cliff Bleszinski and Epic Games, now owned by Microsoft and developed by The Coalition. The series launched October 7, 2006 with the original Gears of War as an Xbox 360 exclusive and has sold over 40 million copies. It is best known…

Halo is a military science fiction video game franchise originally created by Bungie, currently developed by Halo Studios, formerly 343 Industries, under Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios. The series launched November 15, 2001 with Halo: Combat Evolved as an Xbox launch title and has sold over 81 million copies across its history. It is one of…

Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful fictional characters in history. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, Peter Parker first appeared in Amazing Fantasy issue 15 in August 1962. A shy, bookish teenager from Queens, New York who gains spider-like abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider, Spider-Man…

Star Wars is an American multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, first debuting with the original Star Wars film in May 1977. What began as a fantasy-adventure space opera inspired by mythology, classic westerns, Akira Kurosawa films, and Joseph Campbell's hero's journey became one of the most successful and culturally significant franchises in history. The…

Stranger Things is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, Matt and Ross Duffer, for Netflix. The series premiered July 15, 2016 and is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s. It follows a group of children, teenagers, and adults confronting supernatural threats connected to…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American multimedia franchise created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It began as an independent black-and-white comic book published by Mirage Studios in May 1984. Four teenage turtles mutated by radioactive ooze and trained in ninjutsu by a mutant rat named Splinter, each named after a Renaissance artist, living…

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an American horror franchise created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel. The original film released October 1, 1974, following a group of young adults who fall victim to a family of cannibals in rural Texas, including the masked killer Leatherface who uses a chainsaw as his primary weapon. The…

The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of standalone interactive horror games developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Each entry is a self-contained horror story with a cast of characters whose survival depends on the choices made by the player. The games are connected by a framing device featuring the Curator,…

The Evil Within is a survival horror video game series created by Shinji Mikami, the designer behind the original Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4. Published by Bethesda Softworks and developed by Tango Gameworks, the series consists of two mainline games released in 2014 and 2017. Both games follow Detective Sebastian Castellanos as he navigates…

The Ring is a horror franchise originating from Koji Suzuki's 1991 Japanese novel Ring. The story follows a cursed videotape, and anyone who watches it receives a phone call telling them they will die in seven days. The franchise has produced Japanese films, an American remake series, novels, manga, video games, and a crossover with…

ToeJam and Earl is a video game franchise created by Greg Johnson and Mark Voorsanger, beginning with the original ToeJam and Earl on Sega Genesis in 1991. The games follow two alien rappers, ToeJam and Earl, who crash-land on Earth and must collect the pieces of their spaceship while navigating a bizarre version of suburban…

Tomb Raider is a video game franchise created by Core Design, published originally by Eidos Interactive, and now owned by Crystal Dynamics under Embracer Group. The series began with the original Tomb Raider in October 1996 and has sold over 88 million copies worldwide. Lara Croft, the protagonist of the series, an archaeologist and adventurer…

Turnip Boy is an independent video game franchise developed by Snoozy Kazoo and published by Graffiti Games. Beginning with Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion in 2021, the series follows Turnip Boy, a small anthropomorphic turnip who owes an enormous tax debt to a corrupt mayor and must complete increasingly absurd tasks to pay it off.…

X-Men is a superhero franchise created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in The X-Men issue 1 in September 1963. The franchise follows a group of mutants, humans born with a genetic trait called the X-gene that grants them extraordinary abilities, who are persecuted by a society that fears what it…