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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Extraterrestrials appear in many video games in a variety of styles. Sometimes they're evil, sometimes they're benevolent, and sometimes they're very similar to humans.
Characters either begin with multiple outfits, unlock them through play, or purchase them as in-game items. These costumes are sometimes integral to play.
Avatar FameStar is a Microsoft Studios program that allows for cross-game challenges in supported Avatar games for the Xbox 360 (via Xbox Live Arcade), rewarding players with special "Fame" points (for a cross-game leaderboard) and unlockable Avatar apparel for supported games.
Games that integrate support for Xbox Live Avatars.
A group of musicians that perform together.
Block Party, or House Party in EU, is a Spring-based promotional event in which a series of Xbox Live Arcade games are released once a week in March 2010.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
A revamped UI for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. Features include different types of sorting, discount listings, and a news feed.
Dragons were originally messengers from heaven, according to early Buddhist texts. In games, they can be among the most fearsome of adversaries, but there are some exceptions.
Halo Waypoint is a downloadable application for the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 that serves as a hub for both information about the Halo series and the "Halo career" of players.
Kinect PlayFit is an application for Xbox 360 that aggregates activity from specific Kinect titles to offer leaderboards, Achievements and stats.
The New Xbox Experience, or NXE, overhauled the Xbox 360's dashboard, released on November 19th, 2008. A new "Metro" dashboard was released on December 6th, 2011.
Prechievements allow the player to earn game achievements during demo/trial play, but defer awarding until the full commercial game is played.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Unlockable gamerpics are a form of reward for completing certain tasks in Xbox 360 games.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
Zombies, more accurately called the walking dead, are reanimated corpses who feed on the living, and have become a ubiquitous video game enemy. They often move slowly, but can be deadly in large numbers, which is unfortunately how they tend to travel. Shotgun time!
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