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A grappler is a combatant in a fighting game whose best attack strategies usually revolve around throwing their opponents around the stage.
A game that takes place between the events of two previously-released entries in a series, whether those be games or other media like films.
A character who is destined to save or destroy the world. Often seen in RPGs.
Game mechanic that allows a player to respawn as long as at least one teammate is alive.
The New Xbox Experience, or NXE, overhauled the Xbox 360's dashboard, released on November 19th, 2008. A new "Metro" dashboard was released on December 6th, 2011.
A reporter for a news-outlet, whether it be as a writer or photographer.
A Christian military order from the middle ages, known for their skilled warriors wearing white mantles with an emblem of a red cross.
A page for the Camera Following Projectile concept of when the player fires a projectile (bullet, arrow, cannon ball), time slows down and the camera will follow the projectile to its target (can be controllable with sixaxis such as in Heavenly Sword).
Pokey is a cactus enemy often (although not uniquely) seen in the Mario series. It's body segments can be individually destroyed.
Fuzzys are parasites that suck HP to heal themselves.
Characters who at some point possess the ability to shrink in size.
Clouds that, for some reason, can be stood on without falling through.
Chiptunes are musical compositions that are synthesized by a computer or console sound chip.
The Koopa Troop is Bowser's army. It consists of several different members, most of whom are the koopa species.
In Japanese games, this is the practice of placing hiragana readings above any kanji to make reading text easier.
A larger or smaller version of an enemy encountered elsewhere in a game. Larger variants are often used as bosses.
A character type found in RPGs, MMOs, and class based Multiplayer games that focuses on keeping friendly characters alive. Their general role is to heal/buff and resurrect fallen allies.
A technique used in most extreme sports that allows the athlete to twist their bodies while still maintaining possession of their board. Applicable to both snowboarding and skateboarding.
When a conscious character perceives something that either does not exist or is a contorted reality manifested by the character's unstable psyche.
Aka - Elastico, flip flap , Akka Famous move made famous by Rivelino , Ronaldinho Gaucho , Cristiano Ronaldo . Ibrahimovic
The seventh annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2006.
A multinational corporation in Marvel Comics and affiliated media. It's normally associated with oil and other energy resources, but also has its hands in other ventures. Usually portrayed as evil or at the very least having illegal dealings.
Known sometimes as jump gates, hyperspace gates, star gates, these structures are like Satellites that use wormhole technology to propel ships either simultaneously to another sector in space or greatly cuts down the travel time. Though they can be human made, they often have been created hundreds or thousands of years before humanity travels the stars, by an ancient race that often are extinct.
Trading systems allow players to trade items, money and other objects between each other.
As time progresses, the character ages. A boy one moment, a man the next, soon the character is so old he's on the brink of death...
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1950 and 1959.
Hotseat multiplayer mode allows multiple people to play the same game on one system. This generally only applies to turn based games such as Civilization IV or Advanced Wars.
A game mechanic popularized by Epic's Gears of War. The player while in cover shoots "blindly" at the enemy. Used in conjunction with suppressive fire to stop the opposing team in their tracks.
The game uses a Faux puppet mechanic such as dangling limbs and floating as if held on strings.
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