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An age-old, widely-hated strategy in multiplayer games: stay in one spot and kill passers-by. Also refers to a more benign activity in MMOs.
Used as a last ditch effort the desperation move is often a single, powerful attack that hits multiple enemies on screen. The attack is executed at the cost of a percentage of the user's total hit-points.
Downloadable Content adds new features and content to already-distributed video games via the Internet. Examples include new maps for FPS games, new songs for rhythm games, and new cars for racing games.
Forge is a mode in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4, which allows players to alter their favorite multiplayer maps and easily share them with friends and the Halo community.
It takes four head shots from a Battle Rifle, featured in Halo 2 and 3, to kill an opposing player with full shields, or three body shots, followed up with one to the head. Nailing all of them is known as a Four Shot.
Grenade spamming is a strategy used in multiplayer shooters; a player chooses a location and throws every grenade in his possession towards it, in hopes that the combined force of the explosions will hit something. Unfortunately, this tactic can work rather well in some games.
Most modern shooting games add the realistic touch of rendering shots to the cranium instantly fatal. Glorious for the shooter, kind of a bummer to the shootee.
Map Makers or Editors are built-in tools that allow the average gamer to tweak or fully customize a map of their own, with no mod or programming skills required.
Machinima is the concept of making a movie out of a video game. Popularized by the series, Red vs Blue.
Spamming, in video games, refers to the rapid, repeated use of the same item or action. For instance, "grenade spamming" in COD4 is the act of a player throwing a large amount of grenades in succession into an area so that they may get a lucky kill or simply distract the enemy.
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