Fallout: New Vegas | 002
Giant Bomb Plays
Game Mess Mornings 04/24/24
GrubbSnax
837: R1 to Brood
Giant Bombcast
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.20
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.13
Community Endurance Run XIV - April 12-14
Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Jul 03, 2012
Ambient Occlusion attempts to realistically depict the way light reflects off surfaces and radiates throughout an area.
A protagonist who lacks some or all of the qualities traditionally seen as heroic.
Sometimes the writers will deliberately slip the title of the game into dialogue to show off how witty they are.
A common concept in RPGs and MMOs, color-coded loot is a concept where the quality/rarity of loot items are defined by a series of colors.
Plotting and scheming, usually for wealth or power.
Mainly featured in MMOs, a corpse run is when a the player character dies and the player has to return to the location of the death in order to come back to life and/or reclaim items.
Shared mythology for several H.P. Lovecraft stories.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
Customization in games that allow users to change various parts of their equipment or moves to fit their gaming style.
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.
In Norse mythology, the Draug (also spelled Draugr, Draugur or Draugar) is an intelligent undead creature or ghost, usually either guarding it's burial mound or near it's sunken ship, attacking any nearby living creatures.
The 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 5-7.
Water that has been exposed to electricity. Often functions as a puzzle the player must solve to proceed.
A fake glitch is a "glitch" coded into the game, designed to confuse, scare, or amuse the player.
The 2011 Gamescom takes place at the Cologne Trade Fair Center, Germany from 17-21 of August.
Illuminati or the "The New World Order" the evil religious cult that's hell bent on controlling the world.
A Christian military order from the middle ages, known for their skilled warriors wearing white mantles with an emblem of a red cross.
MMOs that offer lifetime subscription, usually at the launch of the game.
Collecting objects in a game such as weapons, armor, items, and currency. Loot is often associated with RPG games and MMOs with RPG elements.
A MacGuffin is a plot device, having little importance itself, which exists purely in order to motivate characters and/or advance the story.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
Small payments made with actual money which result in an in-game bonus, such as an extra item, character, etc...
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
The 2009 Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) took place at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on September 4-6.
The third annual PAX East took place from April 6-8, 2012 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
PhysX is a realtime physics engine middleware originally developed by Ageia and now maintained by nVidia. It is the only currently available physics engine that supports hardware acceleration.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
A public testing period is, or has been, offered for the general public prior to sale or general availability. Access is generally granted through giveaways, preorders, or crowd-funding rewards.
RMT's are the concept of spending real money, for items within a game, common to the free to play market
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.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment