Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate are part of a Japanese multimedia franchise primarily developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai. The franchise is set on an alternate history Earth, where a new version of the Internet arises following a major global computer network disaster in 2005. Central to the premise is a mystery about the wildly popular in-universe MMORPG The World. As most of the story takes place within The World, characters typically interact as their avatars.
