Franchises
Browse games, collector editions, books, and figures grouped by franchise.
Featured Franchises
Elden RingFromSoftware’s action role-playing series directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, with worldbuilding by George R. R. Martin. Elden Ring launched on 25 February 2022 in the Lands Between. Shadow of the Erdtree followed on 21 June 2024. Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone three-player co-op game, launched on 30 May 2025.
16 games4 collector editions4 books13 figures
Gears of WarThird-person shooter series created by Epic Games, later developed by The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios.
22 games10 collector editions11 books6 figures
HaloMilitary science fiction series originally developed by Bungie and now managed by Halo Studios at Xbox Game Studios. It launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved.
43 games4 collector editions47 books7 figures
HexenDark fantasy first-person shooter franchise developed by Raven Software using id Software technology, beginning with Hexen: Beyond Heretic in 1995. Players fight the Serpent Riders across medieval worlds with character classes, hub levels, and occult weaponry.
6 games3 collector editions4 books1 figures
Might and MagicScience-fantasy RPG series created by New World Computing, later published by 3DO. After Ubisoft acquired the name, the brand continued through Heroes of Might and Magic strategy games, spin-offs, and Ashan-setting titles such as Dark Messiah.
71 games3 collector editions2 books2 figures
Resident EvilCapcom horror series, also known as Biohazard in Japan. Survival horror and shooter games typically pit players against zombies and other mutated creatures.
174 games4 collector editions9 books9 figures
Newest Added Franchises
- Test Drive
Accolade’s exotic-car racing series, later published by Infogrames, Atari, and Nacon. It runs from the 1987 original and Pitbull Syndicate’s late-1990s sequels through Eden Games’ open-world Test Drive Unlimited games and Nacon’s 2024 Solar Crown.
39 games4 collector editions1 books - WinBack
Koei’s cover-based third-person shooters. Omega Force’s WinBack (Covert Operations / Operation WinBack) pioneered corner cover on N64 and PS2; Cavia’s WinBack 2: Project Poseidon followed with dual-route Crisis Response Team missions.
6 games - NFL 2K
SEGA’s football simulations, separate from Madden NFL. ESPN NFL Football, also called NFL 2K4, runs a franchise under the salary cap.
1 games - World Series Baseball
Sega’s licensed Major League Baseball series. It began on Game Gear in 1993 and ran through 2003, from Genesis seasons to Xbox and PlayStation 2 games from Visual Concepts. Sega skipped a ’99 edition while moving development toward Dreamcast; ESPN Major League Baseball followed in 2004.
10 games - Midway Arcade Treasures
Digital Eclipse’s compilations of Midway arcade games. Midway Arcade Treasures 2 packs 20 games, from Mortal Kombat II and Gauntlet II to Primal Rage and Hard Drivin’.
1 games - Pinball Hall of Fame
FarSight Studios’ pinball compilations of real Gottlieb and Williams tables, published by Crave Entertainment in North America. The Gottlieb Collection (2004) was followed by The Williams Collection (2008), also sold in PAL as Gottlieb Pinball Classics and Williams Pinball Classics.
11 games - NHL 2K
SEGA’s hockey simulations, separate from EA’s NHL series. NHL 2K3 is the first hockey game on Xbox with Xbox Live, with an ESPN-style broadcast and a franchise mode.
1 games - Die Hard
Film tie-ins that follow John McClane from the 1989 DOS and NES Nakatomi Plaza games through Probe’s three-in-one Die Hard Trilogy, n-Space’s Las Vegas sequel, and the 2002 first-person shooters Nakatomi Plaza and Vendetta.
11 games - Dakar
Licensed rally games based on the Dakar Rally, formerly the Paris–Dakar. Acclaim published Paris-Dakar Rally (2001) and Dakar 2 (2003); Bigmoon’s Dakar 18 (2018) was the next officially licensed entry, followed by Saber Porto’s Dakar Desert Rally (2022).
13 games - ATV: Quad Power Racing
Acclaim’s ATV racing series, from Climax’s 2000 PlayStation game and Tantalus’s Game Boy Advance port to Climax Brighton’s 2003 sequel on PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox. A third game was announced in 2004 and later cancelled after Acclaim closed its Manchester and Cheltenham studios.
5 games
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- 1942
Capcom vertically scrolling shooter series that began with Yoshiki Okamoto's 1984 arcade game 1942. Sequels include 1943: The Battle of Midway and later 194X entries such as 1942: Joint Strike.
5 games1 figures - 4x4 Evolution
Terminal Reality off-road racing series of licensed trucks and SUVs, beginning with 4x4 Evo in 2000. The original supported cross-platform online play between Dreamcast, Macintosh, and Windows; 4x4 Evo 2 followed in 2001.
8 games - 50 Cent
Hip-hop licensed action shooters starring 50 Cent and G-Unit — Genuine Games’ 2005 Bulletproof on PS2/Xbox (plus PSP G Unit Edition) and Swordfish Studios’ 2009 sequel Blood on the Sand.
5 games1 collector editions1 books - 64 Ōzumō
Japan-only Nintendo 64 sumo series from Bottom Up, mixing career training with short bouts. 64 Ōzumō launched in 1997; the sequel followed in 1999.
2 games1 collector editions 
Ace CombatBandai 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.
24 games2 collector editions1 books
Adventure TimePendleton 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.
26 games6 figures- Aero Fighters
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.
23 games6 collector editions - Afro Samurai
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.
4 games3 books 
Alan WakeRemedy 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.
26 games3 collector editions2 books
Aliens vs. PredatorCrossover 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.
14 games2 collector editions2 books
Alone in the DarkSurvival 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.
23 games3 collector editions2 books3 figures
Animal CrossingNintendo 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.
12 games1 collector editions3 books- Area 51
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.
10 games1 collector editions - Army of Two
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).
14 games3 figures 
Assassin's CreedUbisoft historical action-adventure series, developed mainly at Ubisoft Montreal. It depicts a millennia-old conflict between the Assassins and the Templars.
86 games2 collector editions3 books- Atari
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.
33 games1 collector editions - ATV: Quad Power Racing
Acclaim’s ATV racing series, from Climax’s 2000 PlayStation game and Tantalus’s Game Boy Advance port to Climax Brighton’s 2003 sequel on PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox. A third game was announced in 2004 and later cancelled after Acclaim closed its Manchester and Cheltenham studios.
5 games - Avatar: The Last Airbender
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.
27 games9 figures 
Back to the FutureFilm-licensed video-game series based on the Back to the Future trilogy. Early film adaptations include LJN’s NES titles and Image Works home-computer/Sega games, Japan’s Super Back to the Future II, and Telltale’s episodic Back to the Future: The Game (2010–2011), later reissued as a 30th Anniversary Edition.
28 games2 collector editions- Baldur's Gate
Dungeons & Dragons CRPG series set on the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms. BioWare’s Infinity Engine Bhaalspawn Saga began with Baldur's Gate (1998) and Shadows of Amn (2000); Beamdog later shipped Enhanced Editions and Siege of Dragonspear, while Larian’s Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) revived the line. The franchise also includes the Snowblind Dark Alliance action-RPG spin-offs.
27 games3 collector editions3 books