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Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
Games with achievements or trophies that can only be obtained while playing online multiplayer.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
The 2008 Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) took place at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on August 29-31.
Persistent bullet holes allows players to shoot holes into walls without them disappearing right away. This feature added realism to first person shooters, as well as the ability to draw smiley faces.
PhysX is a realtime physics engine middleware originally developed by Ageia and now maintained by nVidia. It is the only currently available physics engine that supports hardware acceleration.
That awesome feeling of a plane flying directly over your head. Making you feel like you're part of something big!
The online service used on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
A portion of a shooter or action game where players are forced into an on rail shooting sequence.
Ranked Matches are commonplace in today's online world, and offer various distinctions over un-ranked/player matches.
Realism is where a game attempts to accurately mimic real life through gameplay mechanics and visuals. For example, realistic shooters, such as Operation Flashpoint, Full Spectrum Warrior, or Brothers in Arms, typically focus upon squad tactics, i.e. suppressive fire and flanking.
The "kick back" from a gun. Causes the muzzle of your gun and crosshair to rise when fired. It promotes firing in smaller bursts, and forces the player to push the crosshair down to counter act the force of the recoil.
Reloading is the action of replacing the ammunition magazine inside a gun. It adds a touch of realism to most modern shooters, and a certain amount of tension when a player is forced to reload while under fire.
Most achievement systems allow developers to hide certain achievements, obscuring details about them until a player has earned the achievement.
SecuROM is a controversial form of DRM, most famously used on EA's strategy game Spore.
A hairstyle, sans hair.
Those creatures that go 'baa' and grow wool on their backs.
A reversed thumbstick layout for left-handed players. The option isn't default, but is available in most games.
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
A squad is a group of military personnel who work together as a group. Popular in both single-player and multiplayer games, the other players within the squad can be either AI or other people.
You work with a small team of AI or human squad members (usually with a total squad size of 4) to complete objectives.
Why go it alone when you can roll with a team? Squad Tactics let you issue commands to a whole crew of A.I controlled squad mates, who can(among other things) plant bombs, fire at specific targets, take cover, and talk smack.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Suppressing fire is firing your weapon at the enemy to force them to stay in cover, to reduce their mobility and their ability to return fire and reconnoitre your position. Impossible to do right in games, due to the fearlessness caused by players not feeling pain when they are shot.
A flaw that occurs when a games graphics engine fails to preload textures as the player is in view of them.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1940 and 1949.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
Unattainable or broken achievements are achievements that no longer unlock, never unlocked from the start, or require an online component to a game that no longer exists.
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