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Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
New Purchase Incentives is a business strategy established by publishers to encourage consumers to buy games new. It is also primarily used as a means of profiting from used game sales where they otherwise could not.
No HUD games are ones that either lack a Heads Up Display, or find a way to integrate it into the game environment. Many games do this to add a sense of immersion or artistic quality to their games, or to reduce screen clutter.
You were pretty cool, once. Rich. Powerful. Royalty, even. But that's done with now, because it says "Chapter One" instead of "Prologue" in the mission order.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
System in games that are used to alert the player of law enforcement attention and pursuit towards them.
Non-linear level design where the player is able to freely traverse the game world and choose where and when to visit certain areas in the game.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
Game bundled with gaming hardware (usually a console) in order to boost sales. Most often these games are first party titles, meaning that the hardware and software are products of the same company.
Various effects using "particles" (billboard/sprite planes or full models).
The second annual PAX East took place at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts on March 11-13, 2011.
The 2010 Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) took place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington from September 3-5.
Whether they're getting in the way while you're walking or driving, you always feel the need to trample them.
Developers can't seem to resist filling video game graveyards with interactive tombstones full of witty sayings and inside jokes, particularly in fantasy RPGs.
The point in an otherwise nonlinear game where the player can do little else but to progress. Such points are most commonly found just before endgame content.
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 portal is a hole in reality connected to another hole in reality, whether magical or scientific in nature, that allows a person to instantly travel incredibly vast distances simply by walking through one.
Pregnancy is the term for when a female of a species is carrying a new, developing member of the species within her body.
Main characters in games who hold leadership positions for a nation, world or planet.
Games nowadays take a long time to make and often they aren't the only things developing during the process. It has become common to list the babies that have been born during the development of any game.
Prostitution is the exchange of money, drugs, favours, or other incentives for the performance of sexual acts.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Regenerating health is a gameplay mechanic which automatically refills the players health bar after successfully escaping damage for a set amount of time. It is typically seen in RPGs and modern first/third-person shooters.
Games that used to be available on Steam, but have since been removed.
In the Assassin's Creed series, renovation functions as an economic system which provides the player with income automatically over time. The amount of income increases as more buildings are renovated. Usually each increment of income is dispatched every 20 minutes (real world time) while the game is on and not paused.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
A maneuver involving both horizontal movement and rotation about a horizontal axis. Many characters roll in a unique fashion, and certain vehicles are even capable of rolling
Classic form of numbering that gives things a more regal feel.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
A menu system which utilizes objects in a room to represent menu choices. Often the camera will pan around the room to each option as the player navigates the menu.
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