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Apple's Game Center service brings matchmaking, achievements, and friend lists to games that choose to support it.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
The act of building something. Using resources to build units, buidlings, structures of any kind.
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
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
A digital storefront which donates some of its profits to charity.
This is a concept in fighting or other action games of attacking an enemy in order to keep the enemy in the air, unable to fight back. This is also a tactic in tower defense games of keeping the enemy on the battlefield longer by manipulating towers.
The concept of lives in video games evolved to let the player get a second chance after failing once. The most recognizable symbol is the heart.
OpenFeint is one of the largest free social networks on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
The 2009 Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) took place at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on September 4-6.
Bite size games for the PSP and the PSPgo.
A level in which everything is displayed on-screen at once, with no scrolling, flip screen, or 3D movement. Many '80s games consist entirely of single-screen levels.
A unit type in real time strategy games. Static defense is a range of units that serve as base defense but can not move beyond where they are built.
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.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
A series of Steam features related to cross-platform play, including cross-buy, cross-play, and Linux compatibility layers.
The PAX 10 is a showcase of independent games held annually at the Penny Arcade Expo. The ten are selected by Penny Arcade staff and a panel of industry professionals.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
A type of gameplay where the player chooses and builds autonomous towers to protect a location from waves of enemies.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
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