Franchises

Bandai Namco arcade flight-combat series from Project Aces, spanning Strangereal campaigns from Air Combat through Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown and the announced Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, plus handheld and Assault Horizon spin-offs.

Pendleton Ward animated fantasy franchise set in the Land of Ooo, following Finn the Human and Jake the Dog. The Cartoon Network series (2010–2018) spawned licensed games from WayForward, Little Orbit, and Outright Games, plus Distant Lands and Fionna and Cake spin-offs.

Aero Fighters, known as Sonic Wings in Japan, is Video System's 1992 vertically scrolling shoot 'em up series of national fighter-jet pilots. Hamster later reissued the arcade games, and SUCCESS and Hamster released the new sequel Sonic Wings Reunion in 2025.

Takashi Okazaki’s Afro Samurai franchise spanning manga, anime, and Namco Bandai’s 2009 hack-and-slash game starring Samuel L. Jackson, plus the short-lived Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma episodic sequel.

Remedy Entertainment action-adventure series. Novelist Alan Wake searches for his missing wife in Bright Falls, Washington, as events from a novel he cannot remember writing come true.

Crossover video-game series blending the Alien and Predator franchises, from early console beat ’em ups and Rebellion’s Atari Jaguar FPS through Fox Interactive PC shooters and Sega’s 2010 multiplatform reboot. Players typically choose Colonial Marine, Alien, or Predator campaigns across shooters, strategy games, and film tie-ins.

Survival horror series that began with Infogrames’ 1992 3D mansion thriller and continued through Jack Is Back, The New Nightmare, Atari’s 2008 Central Park reboot (and Inferno), Illumination, and THQ Nordic’s 2024 reimagining.

Nintendo life-sim series that began with 2001’s Dōbutsu no Mori and grew through GameCube, Wild World, City Folk, New Leaf, and New Horizons — real-time towns and islands shared with animal villagers.

Atari Games light-gun series set at the Area 51 facility, later rebooted by Midway as home first-person shooters. The 1995 arcade original and 1998 sequel Site 4 cast STAAR operators against Kronn aliens; Midway’s 2005 Area 51 and 2007 BlackSite: Area 51 use different plots around the same base.

EA Montreal third-person co-op shooter series. Mercenaries Tyson Rios and Elliot Salem (and later Alpha and Bravo) fight as a two-person team. Three games: Army of Two (2008), The 40th Day (2010), and The Devil’s Cartel (2013).

Ubisoft historical action-adventure series, developed mainly at Ubisoft Montreal. It depicts a millennia-old conflict between the Assassins and the Templars.

Atari brand compilations and modern remasters celebrating the company’s arcade and home-console library—from Digital Eclipse’s Anthology and Code Mystics’ Vault/Flashback Classics to Atari 50’s interactive documentary timelines.

Nickelodeon fantasy franchise created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, set in a world where some people can bend air, water, earth, or fire. It began with the 2005–2008 animated series and includes The Legend of Korra, comics, licensed video games, and later live-action and Avatar Studios projects.