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DS games that have you hold the system vertically so it looks like a book.
Games which are made and marketed with the specific purpose of helping the player improve their mental abilities.
The most prestigious awards in the British videogame calender, the BAFTA Video Game Award honour the achievements of the best game developers and their games.
Some of these games were trying to approximate the person's actual features with little success, and others stylized them on purpose. Either way, no one would confuse the resulting characters with the people they represent.
A feature in Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS games allowing linked multiplayer with only one cartridge.
DS games that feature gameplay elements requiring the player to speak or blow into the handheld's built-in microphone.
Games that make use of the DSi camera, either optionally or as a requirement.
The 2007 E3 Media & Business Summit took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on July 11-13.
Edutainment is a specific category of games designed to teach the player a real-life subject. Whether it be math, history, or English, this game was designed to be used by a teacher or a tutor to make learning more fun!
A characteristic present in game characters with a superior state of mind reflected in how they solve problems and their way of approaching situations.
Controlling by using different gestures such as touch, swing, twist, flick, and more!
The 2007 Interactive Achievement Awards celebrated the best games of 2006.
A talking head is a floating disembodied head that appears to address either you, the player, or the main character.
Games about, or with math in them.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
When a game lacks the ability to "Pause" Game Play by pressing Start on a game console controller (or some other button on a keyboard/mouse).
Game bundled with gaming hardware (usually a console) in order to boost sales. Most often these games are first party titles, meaning that the hardware and software are products of the same company.
The pentagon stat indicator is a mystical chart, made to quickly show your stats. Usually shows up in Japanese games.
Puzzles may need to be solved before the player can progress to the next section of the game. Often it may not be clear to players exactly what the puzzle is, or whether the an in-game items needs to be attained before it is even possible to solve it.
A Random Number Generator (hence RNG) is a system designed to randomize a sequence of numbers. Most games technically use a table of 'random' numbers, simulating random chance.
Ranking Systems tally the player's current progress and relative skill, by tracking raw numbers of multiple statistics (like score and time) during a session of gameplay. This results in a competitive meta-game where the goal is usually to reach the top position.
When a game has something like "²" or "™" in its title. When the box art is stylized, this isn't applicable; it has to be part of the game's official title.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
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