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Game » consists of 24 releases. Released Jun 02, 2009
These faucets are functional.
Toilets that can be used in-game. Neat, but easily abused, which seriously impacts virtual water conservation.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
A large breed of dog that originated in Germany. Because of their strength, intelligence and abilities in obedience training they are often employed in police and military roles, as well as being popular pets.
In some video games, when some characters talk, what they say has absolutely no meaning, at least to the player. Whether it has any meaning to the character speaking is another matter entirely.
An animation system used in creating games.
A living being who is the product of the reproductive mating of two different species.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
The expression of care and love, an act performed in many games.
A digital storefront which donates some of its profits to charity.
While locking pirating users out entirely is the most common way for developers to curb digital piracy, some create in-game consequences designed to amuse, mock, impede, or oust players using suspected pirated copies.
The ability of a player to interact with items or geometry in the game world, whether for story or gameplay reasons or simply for immersion.
The ability for players to customize the look of indoor locations with various furnishings.
An imaginary boundary in the game world that limits player movement to a specific area. They are often criticized as a poor component of level design, when an actual wall or other visible boundary could have been used to delineate a game's playing field.
The act of pressing your lips against someone or something else as a sign of affection.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
A fixer of mechanical things that are broken. It's always good to have one near your tank or spaceship.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
A digital distribution platform owned and operated by EA.
Everyone that is born has parents. These games feature adults with children of their own.
The act of changing a section of a graphic to a low resolution (i.e. enlarging the pixels) in order to "blur" it. Commonly used to censor an image.
While all games on PlayStation 3 (2009 onwards) and later consoles have trophies, only games deemed large enough get to have the coveted Platinum Trophy for earning every Trophy in the base game.
In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.
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!
Pregnancy is the term for when a female of a species is carrying a new, developing member of the species within her body.
Downloadable Content that is only obtainable through outside promotions (i.e. not from game retailers or pre-order bonuses).
Red tape is an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal legislation that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
A joke phrase that was originally coined by Will Wright for a loading screen in SimCity 2000.
Larceny by threat of violence. In video games you either plan and executes such robberies, or your job is to prevent them.
Sometimes, things are just meant to happen the way they do. Usually triggered by a timer, or by the player crossing a checkpoint.
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