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The act of sliding down an elevated geological formation, often on your buttocks.
Smart Delivery is Xbox's official branding for forwards compatibility between Xbox One and Xbox Series X. Games with Smart Delivery can be purchased on Xbox One and then will receive a free upgrade to the Xbox Series X version upon release.
Eliminating a target with a long-range rifle.
Crunchy frozen water fallen from the sky. Many games feature a snow world, a snow level, or otherwise-connected regions of wintery landscapes.
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
Sometimes, you want to play games with a real person who's sitting right next to you. These games have you covered.
Stealth kills are special kills in video games that usually occur when the AI is not aware of the threat of the player.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
A feature in Steam that allows players to remote play couch multiplayer games online.
Steam Trading Cards is a built in feature in the Steam client. It lets users collect cards from certain games and trade them and receive rewards for complete sets.
Not to be confused with just any metal case, SteelBook is a brand of metal packaging for disc-based media.
Usually the room before a boss battle, filled with ammo, health and other goodies for players to stock up on.
The inclusion of a feature that recaps either recent plot events or the events of the entire plot of a game in a reviewable log of some form. It can serve as a useful tool for those that need a reminder on earlier story events or the current objective.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
The Swarm is a race of creatures created by the surviving members of the Locust Horde.
Enemies that are small, deal relatively low damage, and have low health, but make up for it by attacking in large numbers. Examples include Flood infection forms from Halo, Trites from Doom 3, or Crawlers from Resistance: Fall of Man.
Multiple teams featuring more than two or more players, compete against each other. At the end of a game, one team is declared the winner.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
Throwing weapons include knives, shurikens, axes, darts or even explosives such as grenades and molotov cocktails.
You don't know how to play our game, so we'll teach you how.
The fourth major iteration of the Unreal Engine from Epic Games. This engine is said to only be suitable for the 8th generation of video game consoles and PC hardware, though it is scalable to a variety of older platforms and mobile.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
Realistically rendered water can really immerse you in a game. Just don't try to dive into your TV!
First seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, this style of gameplay helps manage balance in shooters by forcing players to choose between weapons
Found in many First Person Shooters or Role Playing Games, the player has the ability to swap their current weapon for another found on the ground or in their inventory.
Air moving with a considerable force. It's important to take wind into consideration when playing golf.
Microsoft's application storefront introduced in Windows 8.
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