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It's not just for airplanes anymore: Game mascots and MMO players alike have taken to the skies. Players can use flight to quickly navigate large levels, find hidden items, or take opponents down.
The floppy disk is a symbol for saving data that originated back when floppies were still the dominant format for computer games, but has persisted long after the technology became obsolete.
Enemies that prefer to keep a distance to the ground, and swoop down occasionally to do some damage.
A commonly used programming API for interactive sound creation and playback in games.
A frog is a small and usually green amphibian that can swim, hop, and ribbit. Sadly, most of them aren't princes.
Some first-person games that wish to immerse the player in the experience more will go as far as to include full body awareness, or the ability to see the player character's body when looking down.
They beep when you walk through them!
Since 1998, an independent group of about forty worldwide media outlets who determine the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The Game Developers Choice Awards is an annual awards ceremony recognizing the work of video game developers of the previous year. Since 2001, it has been held during the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
The eighth annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2007.
An Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live feature that lets you purchase and download full Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC games through the Live Marketplace.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
The annual European games convention held in Cologne, Germany. It took place on the 18-22 of August.
Gamescom 2012 was held in Cologne, Germany, from August 15th to 19th.
A glitch is an action performed within the bounds of a game engine that was not intended by the game's developers. Glitches are often performed by the player, though they can also occur independently.
Games show you a new enemy throughout the game and they usually require a new tactic to defeat it. The first one you fight comes solo and you are required to kill it, then they are given to you in groups or possibly mixed with older enemies.
Gravity is a physical phenomenon, specifically the mutual attraction between all objects in the universe. In a gaming setting, gravity determines the relationship between the player and the "ground," preventing the player or game objects from flying off into space, and hopefully acting in a predictable/realistic manner.
A method to clearly show the player live grenades near them. Usually displayed on the HUD.
A style of play in multiplayer gaming with the purpose of annoying, irritating and angering other players.
The ground pound is a move where a person in midair somehow makes themselves strike the ground with more force than if they had merely landed. Popularly known as the "butt stomp" due to Super Mario 64's variant, which appeared as though Mario was attacking foes with his rear end.
Games in which players are guided through the game by characters via radio communication. Extremely popular narrative device and game mechanic in the current generation of video games.
Commonly reffered to as seagull, the gull is a (mostly) white aquatic bird known for its cheeky behaviour.
"Hand to hand. It is the basis of all combat." -Gray Fox
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Most modern shooting games add the realistic touch of rendering shots to the cranium instantly fatal. Glorious for the shooter, kind of a bummer to the shootee.
Description of an healing spell that works over time, that is it brings small chunks of health repeatedly within a certain time-frame.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
Death From Above.
Henchmen are the loyal grunts caught in between the player and the main antagonist. Without them every game would be nothing more than a boss battle.
A console game is high definition if it operates at a resolution of at least 720p, or 1280x720. A console able to achieve this resolution is HD-capable. For a variety of reasons, the term does not apply to PC games.
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