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In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
Platforming from the character's point of view.
The First-Person Regain Consciousness is regularly seen in First-Person-Shooters.
Enemies that prefer to keep a distance to the ground, and swoop down occasionally to do some damage.
Foreshadowing is a plot device that allows the creators to leave subtle (or not-so-subtle) hints about future events in the game.
FreeLC is free downloadable content. It is a sub-category of DLC which encompasses only free downloadable content.
This page is titles that allow you to manually reconfigure the control scheme. A title that only lets you swap/invert sticks, adjust stick sensitivity, or limits you to preset configurations, does not qualify for this list.
Toilets that can be used in-game. Neat, but easily abused, which seriously impacts virtual water conservation.
Since 1998, an independent group of about forty worldwide media outlets who determine the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The Game Developers Choice Awards is an annual awards ceremony recognizing the work of video game developers of the previous year. Since 2001, it has been held during the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
The eighth annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2007.
The 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2011.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
When there is in-game advertising in one game for a different title, normally one by the same developer.
An Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live feature that lets you purchase and download full Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC games through the Live Marketplace.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
A characteristic present in game characters with a superior state of mind reflected in how they solve problems and their way of approaching situations.
Characters that have a German accent.
A glitch is an action performed within the bounds of a game engine that was not intended by the game's developers. Glitches are often performed by the player, though they can also occur independently.
A state of mind in which a person (usually a leader or dictator) genuinely believes that they are a powerful god.
Graffiti is the practice of painting, etching, stickering, pasting, or in any way marking public or private property with lettering or images for a variety of different ends. Depending on one's perspective, graffiti can be considered either art or vandalism.
Gravity is a physical phenomenon, specifically the mutual attraction between all objects in the universe. In a gaming setting, gravity determines the relationship between the player and the "ground," preventing the player or game objects from flying off into space, and hopefully acting in a predictable/realistic manner.
A style of play in multiplayer gaming with the purpose of annoying, irritating and angering other players.
Games with cartoony, colourful, happy art styles that involve a lot of bloodshed, violence and killing. Examples would be Castle Crashers, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield Heroes, Alien Hominid, Conker's Bad Fur Day...
Havok Physics (Havok) is a physics API developed by Irish company Havok and released in 2000. It is used in video games as a physics engine, allowing for realistic interactions between in-game entities.
Spider-like parasitic animals from an unknown universe with amazing powers of genetic transformation. Introduced in the original Half-Life, headcrabs come in several varieties, all of which are incredibly dangerous to unsuspecting or unprepared humans.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Most modern shooting games add the realistic touch of rendering shots to the cranium instantly fatal. Glorious for the shooter, kind of a bummer to the shootee.
A temporary or permanent condition in which a person is suffering from reduced hearing ability.
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