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The collective body of all the Kanto regions yakuza clans, consisting of up to 30,000 men. Originally founded by Makoto Tojo.
A look implying an authoritative, smart, good looking woman that always includes glasses. The combination of these characteristics may appeal to certain men or women, and is a popular sexual fantasy.
Used in many games such as Sim City and Black & White to make sweeping changes to the environment or to move massive objects.
Found in many Real Time Strategies, walls are meant to keep your people safe and the enemy out.
Head Tracking is a concept which allows a game to follow the movement of the players head and change what is displayed on the screen relevant to the players head movements.
Adopted from horror films, a screamer is an image that's suddenly displayed on-screen, often accompanied by a loud scream or musical sting.
Urban legends, particularly horrific ones, have come back into vogue among Internet communities, where they are referred to as "creepypasta". Some of the more popular examples have been adapted into video games.
Known as Chi in Chinese and Ki in Japanese, it is spiritual energy which cultivates itself through training and meditation. In experienced hands, it becomes a form of visible energy which can heal, destroy, or do many other tasks, determined by the amount of Ki and the user's overall ability to manipulate it.
Youkai are supernatural beings from Japanese folklore
A philosophical and religious system based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
Sligs are a race from the Oddworld series. They are one of the main enemies you encounter.
A race of chain-smoking tyrannical industrialists operating on Oddworld with little regard for anything except bigger profits.
Retcon, as it is more commonly known, is a change in an existing storyline to accommodate future games in the same fiction.
Tattoos that represent upgrades.
Elums are the Mules of the Oddworld wildlife. They are loyal, trustworthy, and very fast.
Serving as polar opposites to the Jedi, they revel in dark side of the Force and lust power above all else. Sith Lords are identified by their "Darth" title, while lesser Sith and Dark Jedi are not allocated this title.
The Red Bird is the original Angry Bird and is the mascot of the franchise.
The absence of belief in the existence of gods.
Sony Computer Entertainment's cross-platform game engine designed to make it easier for PC developers to make PS3 games. It is used in many notable games such as flower and Shatter.
Games that feature quiz questions, often in the form of multiple choice responses.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. Urination is found in games for a number of reasons, including comic relief and a quick pathway to sobriety.
Description of an healing spell that works over time, that is it brings small chunks of health repeatedly within a certain time-frame.
Games whose titles are meant to be taken more than one way.
Characters that are described and interact with the character primarily or only via audio (most often through dialogue, but usually also using some audio effects). As opposed to cutscenes which often emulate film, the way aural characters are presented in games often more closely parallels radio dramas and other audio-exclusive media.
An ability that doesn't require input from the player to be used.
Graphic Filters are removable filters that change the look of the graphics in a game. They can range from making a game look like an old film, to smoothing the pixellated graphics of an old game.
Malevolent creatures that resemble babies for one reason or another. The ironic juxtaposition of innocence with evil, plus the player's natural reluctance to hurt a baby, makes them a popular trope in horror games.
An in-game design interface that allows the player to configure aspects of a game, among other things.
During boss battles, sometimes the boss kills their own henchmen. This concept is often used as a way of demonstrating a boss' wrath.
Conjoined twins are identical twins whose bodies are attached to each other in utero. This rare phenomenon is also commonly referred to as Siamese twins.
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