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The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
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.
Loading Screens are specific screens that are displayed while a game is loading resources so that the player has something to distract them while the game loads. Loading Screens can be images, text or even mini-games - and sometimes a combination of all three.
Games that allow the player to choose which level to play next, rather than a fixed linear order.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
A game that uses a mixture of 2D & 3D techniques. Commonly used to describe the use of either 3D graphics restricted to a 2D perceptive, or 2D graphics used to fake the appearance of a 3D perceptive.
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.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
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