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Microsoft's PC branch of its Live service. Lends the same functionality as Xbox Live Gold to Games For Windows games including cross-platform compatibility for achievements, friends & messages, downloadable content, and in some cases, multiplayer.
An Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live feature that lets you purchase and download full Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC games through the Live Marketplace.
Eurogamer's digital distribution service.
A translucent "ghost" representation of a prior performance in a racing game.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Greatest hits is a general term for re-releases of games which have sold a certain number of copies, as part of a program managed by the console manufacturer.
Honda manufactures vehicles such as the Civic, S2000 and the NSX. Honda is featured in racing game franchises such as Gran Turismo, Forza and the Need for speed series.
A list of games that have their own in-game graphical achievement menu. Used for showing current progress towards achievements or trophies.
An instantreplay is a gameplay element typically associated with sports games, and widely made popular with the Madden Franchise. Instant replays allow players to go back and view gameplay footage, occasionally from varying points of view.
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.
A lap is one circuit around a race track. This is featured in many, but not all racing games.
The process by which characters reach a new level, gain greater attributes, and learn more abilities. It usually involves earning enough experience points by completing a variety of tasks such as quests or by "farming" such as killing other characters for their experience points.
Games that obtained permission to feature real-life licensed car brands.
Mitsubishi Motors makes Vehicles, The Evo series of Lancer are quite popular, and feature in most Racing game franchises, most notably Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Midnight Club and the Need for Speed series.
A post processing effect that blurs and streaks the entire frame. Loosely based on the behavior of real-world optics.
PC games that support the use of two or more monitors.
Engine used to power all of Codemasters racing titles since 2006
The Nissan Motor Company is a Japanese automotive manufacturer, well-known in gaming for its variety of sports, luxury and civilian cars.
OnLive was a cloud gaming service offering video game streaming through a user's computer, smartphone, or TV.
Options menus give you the option to change anything the game lets you change. Whether you want subtitles or not, sound effects or not, the game to be harder or not, anything you want that the game lets you change, you can change in the options menu.
The online service used on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
PlayStation Underground was a CD magazine published by Sony for the original PlayStation from 1997 to 2001. Each of the 17 issues included demos, video interviews, behind the scenes content, and much more.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Product placement is the act of using branded products in high visibility settings inside movies and games in exchange for special consideration, financial purchases or otherwise. In recent years, it has become more apparent.
A rally is generally any race involving a series of progressive check points, as opposed to laps around a defined track.
Games which feature randomly generated missions, quests and/or tasks
A menu system which utilizes objects in a room to represent menu choices. Often the camera will pan around the room to each option as the player navigates the menu.
The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2007.
In auto racing, standing starts have the cars or go-karts stationary in the starting grid as the race begins. To commence racing in a standing start, a set of red lights is needed before the green one goes off to start the race.
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