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Boost takes a game to a new level giving players a greater level of speed. This speed opens up new doors to sports games, driving games, and any game that can benefit from the reward of speed.
A style of animation that gives games a more hand drawn look.
A professional racing circuit built on city streets. Not to be confused with illegal street racing.
Your current position shows you what place you're in during racing games, events and more!
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
A feature in Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS games allowing linked multiplayer with only one cartridge.
Whenever there's a new Pixar, superhero or Harry Potter movie they have to make one of these.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
In-Game Advertising is the placement of advertisements for real-world products within the game, sponsored by companies external to the developer.
An instantreplay is a gameplay element typically associated with sports games, and widely made popular with the Madden Franchise. Instant replays allow players to go back and view gameplay footage, occasionally from varying points of view.
A lap is one circuit around a race track. This is featured in many, but not all racing games.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
Loading Screens are specific screens that are displayed while a game is loading resources so that the player has something to distract them while the game loads. Loading Screens can be images, text or even mini-games - and sometimes a combination of all three.
The minimap is a small, simplified version of a larger map. This plays a vital role in many games, especially Real Time Strategy, where it is important to have an overview of the entire map.
Radar is a player assist device included in the Heads Up Display of many games that represents the player's surroundings and the positions of objects, vehicles and enemies.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
The speed blur effect is typically used in racing games. It consists of the edges of the screen, or any object in the world blurring as the player moves quickly.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
Video games that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-video game franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
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