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DLC that is technically available on the disc, but requires the player to buy a key separate from the game to activate it.
Games that can be played with one hand, typically using only half of a standard controller or only the mouse/keyboard.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
Sometimes you just don't want to pull out your stylus or get fingerprints on your DS screen. These games don't make you.
Though traditional button controls are offered, these games also provide touch screen shortcuts to perform attacks and techniques.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Everyone that is born has parents. These games feature adults with children of their own.
The second annual PAX East took place at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts on March 11-13, 2011.
Sexual behaviour that deviates from the norms of society.
A piledriver is a professional wrestling move in which the wrestler grabs his opponent, turns him upside-down, and drives the opponent's head into whatever happens to be below.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
The Nintendo 3DS has a system-level currency called Play Coins, which are earned for walking while the system is in sleep mode and can be spent in a variety of ways.
When a character that the player fights as a boss is playable elsewhere.
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.
PlayStation Underground was a CD magazine published by Sony for the original PlayStation from 1997 to 2001. Each of the 17 issues included demos, video interviews, behind the scenes content, and much more.
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!
Some fighting games allow the player to move their character prior to the actual start of the round.
Where a video game comes with something "exclusive" only when you Pre-Order it, sometimes from a specific location. This can be a piece of DLC or it can be something not in-game or even "exclusive" or early access to demo or beta.
Games where pressure sensitive buttons play an important part.
Professional gaming is the world where players make a salary by playing games for a professional eSport organization. The professional gaming scene is built upon tournament managing organizations like TheCGS, ESWC, WCG and their sponsors.
This feature allows players of the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 versions of a game to play competitively or collaboratively.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
Games that allow the option to let the computer to pick the player's character.
Ranked Matches are commonplace in today's online world, and offer various distinctions over un-ranked/player matches.
The act of forcing someone to engage in sexual activity against her or his will. Generally considered one of the worst things one human being can do to another.
The rare occurrence of a game being released between Christmas and New Year's Day.
Characters that are designed to be scantily-clad.
Mostly in games that involve strategy. It involves special attributes determining the strengths and weaknesses of each move, species, character or type. One attribute is strong against another attribute, and weak against another, often in a circular fashion.
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