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The new splitscreen, in which both players (with different 3D glasses) see different gamescreens.
The Otherworld is the darker-side dimensional world in the Silent Hill game series.
Genlocks are the most numerous breed of darkspawn.
A way for players to level their characters, generally from a RPG game, where they select nodes on a grid to raise the stats of their character.
This Roman cult of wild men worship Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome, as though he were a god, and dress and act like wolves due to the legend that he and his brother Remus were raised by wolves.
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was a tribunal established in 1478 by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the monarchs of Spain. It's purpose was the maintaining of Catholic orthodoxy, a goal it pursued with notorious cruelty and ruthlessness. Nobody expects them!
Frankenstein's monster is the creature inspired by the Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein. Usually creatures inspired by this theme are made from different body parts and almost always have bolts through their necks. They're usually naive and destructive.
In multiple works of fiction, Vampires are depicted as knights clad in (usually black or red), sinister armor. In works of fiction with multiple types of vampires or undead, Vampire Knights are usually shown to be the elite.
A sport that consists of gliding stone blocks over ice towards a central point, the player with the most stone blocks next to the goal wins.
A punk-derived subculture of people predominately clad in black. Often confused with Emos.
The enemy you will find in Harry Potter games. Bad guys with masks who want to kill you! Because they hate Muggles and Muggle-borns. And Harry Potter.
A highly acrobatic hip-hop inspired dance style.
A graphic filter designed to give players the sensation of using a CRT monitor.
Everyone else can keel over as much as necessary, but if the party leader falls, it's game over. Sometimes this makes logical sense, like with perma-death battle systems. But more often then not the main character is one Phoenix Down away from a game over.
Allows a cinematic view of your vehicle in the Driver series.
The Wii U GamePad features a built-in microphone that can be used for voice chat in multiplayer but also for various game-specific features like creating voice messages for other players and sharing them online.
A theatrical performance art that combines stage action with singing.
Lemurs are primates endemic to the island of Madagascar.
This sword is really sticky... best not to ask why.
Games that allow you to touch the screen to start them instead of pressing the Start button.
Games that support the use of the Circle Pad Pro 3DS accessory.
From mirroned Luigi's cap to the typos.
You think that single peasant, waving his scythe, is by himself? Think again: he just REPRESENTS what is likely a throng of bloodthirsty farmer types.
Unit Formations are pre-set ways of laying out a group(s) of units in strategy games.
Tiny, blue and slightly daft creatures that take orders from the player in Swarm.
Anthropomorphization of an inanimate object, animal, character, or concept to give it cute, human-like traits.
Used on touch screen devices to simulate a physical joystick for in-game controls.
Forced up from underground during the Calamity, these ghastly foes are everywhere.
These bloated gasbags used to help pick up trash in the districts. For some reason, The Boy will find himself combating these civil servants gone awry after the Calamity in the upcoming title, Bastion.
Squirts, Gasfellas, and Scumbags are all part of the Windbag species but in different stages of life.
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