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Game » consists of 27 releases. Released Nov 15, 2011
A digital storefront which donates some of its profits to charity.
A common type of stage featured in many games. Slippery ice, avalanches, and freezing water are some of the unpleasantries to be had when visiting these cold arctic regions.
A rather unpleasant experience, where your journey takes you to the insides of a bigger creature, followed by a desperate attempt to make it 'through', alive and undigested.
Some games feature end credits that scroll over a playable segment of action.
The interactive loading screen has thankfully relieved some of the boredom that comes with long load times through entertaining us with small minigames. These generally involve simply moving objects around on screen usually with some relevance to the game itself.
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.
Characters who lack body parts that people in the real world have, yet they still utilise their bodily functions.
Games released coinciding with new hardware.
When a level select screen takes the form of a map.
The opposite of open-ended gameplay, linear gameplay uses scripted events, Quick time events, cut scenes, and a restricted path to tell a story exactly how the writer intends, and control elements of the action.
Collectibles that are also living beings.
Mercenaries, Soldiers for Hire, have been found fighting in conflicts since the dawn of human warfare. These hired guns show a desire to turn their talent in the art of death to a more profitable profession.
A stage or level designed around a theme of musical instruments or audio equipment. Most common in platformers, where the instruments often act as platforms, obstacles, or even enemies.
Some PlayStation Vita games can upload unlockable items, lap times, and other game data as virtual geocaches using the built-in "near" application.
A digital distribution platform owned and operated by EA.
An overworld is a simplified view of the game world that allows players to freely move to different locations or levels.
The eighth annual Penny Arcade Expo took place from August 26-28, 2011 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
PlayStation Plus is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
The PlayStation TV is a media streaming device based on the PS Vita. It can play many (though not all) Vita game cards, as well as supporting some PSN games and PS4 Remote Play.
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.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Characters that are designed to be scantily-clad.
A sound effect that plays once the player has gained a level, solved a puzzle or reached a milestone within the game.
Most achievement systems allow developers to hide certain achievements, obscuring details about them until a player has earned the achievement.
A creature which is made up of mostly identical segments and has an elongated shape.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
Having the main protagonist(s) and foreground appear only as silhouettes against an often colourful background has become a popular art aesthetic for 2D games in the last few years.
The act of sliding down an elevated geological formation, often on your buttocks.
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.
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