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Moving to the left or right without rotating the body axis. The technique, also called side-stepping, is useful in FPS games to avoid incoming fire without turning away from a target.
Sudden Death occurs when two or more players/teams have the same score at the end of the game. It can also be a penalty that activates when a player of match is taking too long. The players will then have to get rid of each other in a hurry.
Propelling oneself with kinetic usage of limbs while submerged in liquid (or otherwise fluid material).
A Multiplayer game mode where two or more teams fight against each other to the death. The team with the most kills wins.
The ability to move from one area to another instantaneously - typically through some sort of special power or device.
A flaw that occurs when a games graphics engine fails to preload textures as the player is in view of them.
What lies ahead, and is distant from the present.
An organized series of matches, ending with one victor.
Tracker music, or module/MOD music is a digital music format that was popularized in the late 80's and became the de facto standard for video game music on the Amiga, as well as in the Demoscene, and is still in wide use today.
A powerful weapon often found near the end of the game that is significantly more powerful than other weapons. It can also be the last weapon in an RPG game that does drastically increased damage compared to previous weapons.
First version of the Unreal engine. Developed for the game, "Unreal".
New version of the Unreal engine rolled out with Unreal Tournament 2003. After being further extended and enhanced, it would evolve into the Unreal Engine 2.5 and Unreal Engine 2X.
A mod is a user-created patch that alters any part of a game, or adds new content to it. At the extreme, "total conversion" mods can change the game so much that an entirely new experience is created.
Vehicular combat combines driving and combat to form a unique fast paced action game. Many games are purely vehicular combat based (e.g. Twisted Metal or Vigilante 8) or can contain have sections for such combat (e.g. Halo or Mass Effect).
These are games that begin with the player waking up. More often than not this occurs in RPGS, but is certainly not exclusive to the genre.
Also known as a triangle jump, this is the ability to hit a wall and propel yourself off of it like you were some kind of crazy ninja or parkour fiend.
WASD, or WADS, is the most common and often the default setting to move the player character in computer games with a first or third person perspective.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your computer and using it to play the game.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
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