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A Japanese company who developed Wario Land: Shake It! and Giant Bomb's 2010 Best-Looking Game award winner Kirby's Epic Yarn. Their CEO is from the now defunct Konami Computer Entertainment Kobe.

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Gesture-based Controls
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Controlling by using different gestures such as touch, swing, twist, flick, and more!
Swinging
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The act of traversing space while attached to a piece game geometry. Sometimes via a rope, or other grapple like object.
Motion Control
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Using gestures with the controller to control on-screen actions. Alternatively, these gestures can also be detected by motion-sensing cameras.
Jump
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It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto building, onto platforms, or onto skulls, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Fish
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Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
Collectibles
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Collectibles are items such as coins, rings, gems, packages etc. that can be gathered, usually for some kind of reward, or sometimes to simply beat a level. Often (almost too often) the source of earning achievements and trophies on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Solid Cloud
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Clouds that you for some reason can stand on without falling through.
Puzzle Platformer
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Puzzle platformers are platform games where the key aspect involves solving riddles and puzzles, rather than combat.
Rain
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Rain can heavily increase the atmosphere of a video game. Some games use it to add detail to an environment, while other games use it to make it difficult to see.
Side-Scrolling
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Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
High Score
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In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
Swimming
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Propelling oneself with kinetic usage of limbs while submerged in liquid (or otherwise fluid material).
2D
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Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
Minigames
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These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
Shopping
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No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Deliberately Retro
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Sometimes designers add old-school things on purpose to enhance game design.
Ghosts
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These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Time Limit
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When a certain amount of time is given to the player to reach a goal or finish an objective.
Hidden Objects
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Hidden Objects is a gameplay mechanic in which the player must find specific items within a static scene.
Water Effects
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Realistically rendered water can really immerse you in a game. Just don't try to dive into your TV!
Fodder Enemies
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Fairly weak enemies (not specific characters) that go down in a couple shots or swings, but will keep coming in droves.
Record Breakers
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Games that make records. Often records like most played game, or criticly acclaimed. There have been gaming records since the Magnavox Oddysey.
Interior Decorating
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A splash of paint and this virtual place will look virtually like new!
Respawn Justification
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The player never really dies, but is revived or respawned with little to no penalty.
2.5D
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Games which feature 3D polygonal graphics, but typically restrict gameplay and camera control to a 2D plane. Alternatively, it can also refer to earlier games that attempted to simulate three-dimensional graphics without the use of 3D polygons.
Bonus Stage
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Bonus levels, rounds, or stages give players a chance to gain extra points, powerups, or lives. Occasionally bonus stages will play completely different than the rest of the game, like as a slot machine or pinball minigame.
E3 2011
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The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 7-9.
Sideways Wii Remote Gameplay
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Wii titles played by holding the Wii Remote on its side. Such games may also require altering the grip on the Wii Remote in order to perform certain gameplay tasks.
World Map
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A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
Gamescom 2010
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The annual European games convention held in Cologne, Germany. It took place on the 18-22 of August.

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