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In-Game Advertising is the placement of advertisements for real-world products within the game, sponsored by companies external to the developer.
The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
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.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Kinect is a camera and depth sensor-based peripheral for the Xbox 360 that allows users to interact with and play games using their whole bodies, rather than using a standard controller.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
A leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
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.
Games that incorporate licensed music from popular bands and musicians for their soundtracks.
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 Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team that competes in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the NBA. They currently have 16 NBA Championships, the second most in the league, 32 Conference titles, the most in the league, and 23 Division titles. Notable Lakers include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant.
The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA. The team use to be based in Vancouver before moving to Memphis.
The Miami Heat are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA. They are based in Miami, Flordia.
The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
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!
The Minnesota Timberwolves are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
Using gestures with the controller to control on-screen actions. Alternatively, these gestures can also be detected by motion-sensing cameras.
The NBA is North America's highest level of professional basketball.
The New Orleans Pelicans are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA. The Pelicans, then known as the Hornets, played in Charlotte from 1988 to 2002 before moving to New Orleans. Due to hurricane Katrina, the team played most of their home games in Oklahoma City for the '05-'06 and '06-'07 seasons.
The New York Knicks are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA.
Nintendo Network is the online service for Wii U and 3DS.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
A function of the Wii U that allows games to be played exclusively through the Wii U GamePad.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball team that competes in the NBA. They were formerly known as the Seattle Supersonics before making the move to Oklahoma City.
When a crowd is present in a game (often invisible) that does nothing more than cheer or boo, depending on the player's performance.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
OnLive was a cloud gaming service offering video game streaming through a user's computer, smartphone, or TV.
That Orlando Magic are a professional Basketball team that competes in the NBA.
Penalties are most commonly found in sports game. Penalties usually result in a loss of yards, free kick or a free shot against the team/player that was penalized. In special cases, the offending player(s) may be ejected from the game.
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