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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
A professional and amateur sport, played world-wide, in which two teams advance a ball up and down a court in order to score "field goals," by throwing the ball through a basket or hoop. The team with the highest score at the end of timed play wins.
A position in basketball, generally played by someone of great height.
Create-A modes allows the player to create the skate park of their dreams, their own action hero, or the next champion of wrestling.
Dolby Digital is an audio compression technology codec first used in movie theaters. It's now commonly used in many modern day audio/video media formats, including video games.
A draw occurs when two or more players end a versus match where no player is determined to be the winner. This can be caused by a double knock out, or when players have an equal point value at the end of a set period of time.
FMVs are pre-rendered videos used in place of real-time graphics. Using FMV was an attempt to make videogames look "more like movies", sometimes with CGI animation and others with live-action actors speaking directly to players. The downside is that FMV requires a lot of disk space, and live-action FMV in particular can look terrible by comparison.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
A console game is high definition if it operates at a resolution of at least 720p, or 1280x720. A console able to achieve this resolution is HD-capable. For a variety of reasons, the term does not apply to PC games.
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 leaderboard is a way for players of any multi-player game to know where they rank within the game's community.
The NBA is North America's highest level of professional basketball.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
The online service used on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.
A position in basketball. The point guard is usually the main ball-handler and generally a good passer.
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!
Ranked Matches are commonplace in today's online world, and offer various distinctions over un-ranked/player matches.
Most achievement systems allow developers to hide certain achievements, obscuring details about them until a player has earned the achievement.
A position in basketball. The shooting guard is usually a perimeter offensive weapon and secondary ball-handler.
Left half only
Sports that are played outside of their traditional playing fields, and often in an exaggerated manner.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
The ability to communicate via voice.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
Achievements that are given to the player to show just how much they suck... usually.
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