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Concepts
Game Developers Choice Awards 2026
The 26th annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrate the best games of 2025.
Tyrant 8404
A recurring type of B.O.W. (Bio-Organic Weapon) that is fought throughout the Resident Evil franchise.
Hip Hop 2771
Hip-Hop is a type of urban culture that has been featured in many videogames to varying extents, in movies, and in all around pop culture. Hip-Hop includes Rap music/Emceeing, graffiti art, DJ'ing, and breakdancing.
Blight Club
29th Annual D I C E Awards
The 29th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards celebrate the best games of 2025, as voted by industry professionals.
Timefall
Timefall is a form of precipitation in Death Stranding that rapidly accelerates time for organisms and inanimate objects that come into contact with it.
Locusts
Destructive swarming insects.
Anchor as a Weapon
Some characters in games are so hypertrophied strong that they can simply swing the ship's anchor with their hands, hurl it with psychic power, or throw enemies at it for an enhanced attack or finishing
Riding in a Horse Drawn Carriage
Riding a Cart or Stage Coach pulled by horses or fantasy animals
Obstructive NPC
An element of bad game design sometimes found in old RPGs where characters in densely populated city locations end up accidentally blocking the protagonist's path.
Chinese Mythology
Games, characters, events, items, locations, and more that are based on any of the myths, legends, and religions of China from throughout history.
Galick Gun
One of Vegeta's signature moves in the Dragon Ball series. Users of this move are usually related to him or imitators.
Darkspine
Darkspine is a less-than-heroic transformation of Sonic the Hedgehog, from Sonic and the Secret Rings.
Yin yang Symbol
An Asian symbol of balance. By design, it contains various philosophical meanings, but in popular culture it is almost inextricably linked only with martial arts
Drifters
Wearing Animal Skins
It is common to make foot mats or neat coats from the skins of animals, but sometimes they are worn in their entirety, together with the scalp of the head, as a cape or scarf. A demonstration of closeness to nature or the predatory nature of one's nature
Iron Knuckle
Iron Knuckles are heavily armored enemies in The Legend of Zelda series.
Tiny Protagonist
Games where the anthropomorphic playable character feels smaller than humans.
Eternals
The Eternals are a race of god-like beings in Marvel Comics and associated projects.
Hummingbird
Long-beaked birds that make a humming noise with their wings.
Death by Train
A plot contrivance or gameplay opportunity for some characters to die in the game by being hit by a moving train or streetcar
Plesiosaurus
An extinct species of marine reptile with a long neck.
Ice Bros
Hammer/Fire Bro. variants that pitch ice.
Automatic Flashlight Applying
When the game character, entering dark locations, independently activates his light sources: lamp, flashlight, candle, flare, magic fire, etc. without the player's action
Fat Protagonist
Corpulent main player characters are actually pretty rare
Living Snowman
Usually the kind of enemies in winter levels, but sometimes NPCs giving quests
Dingo
An Australian canid.
Butterfly Enemy
A familiar opponent in the light fantasy setting in which platformers and JRPGs are usually made. Particularly large individuals are sometimes even made bosses
Black Warriors
The Black Warriors or Shadow Warriors are a recurring villainous organization in the Double Dragon series.
Space Marine Chaplain
Though their black armor and grim appearance (most notably skull helmets) might make them seem servants of Chaos, Chaplains are quite the opposite; they are the Space Marines who zealously revere the God-Emperor and just as zealously keep watch on their fellows to ensure their loyalty to the cause is unflinching and their hearts untainted by heresy.
The 2040s
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 2040 and 2049.
Red Arremer
A tribe of demonic creatures in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series and other Capcom titles.
Peeking Through the Cracks
Gameplay or storyline ability to look into neighboring rooms through unintended openings: keyholes, cracks in walls, holes in fences, ajar doors, in order to learn enemy location, gather information, or voyeurism
Camera as a Weapon
When, by capturing an enemy on film, we damage them or impose a negative status, like blinding, with the flash. And also the ability to hit the device itself up close or throw it like a projectile
Legendary Super Saiyan
Purported to be the actual Super Saiyan form spoke of in Saiyan culture. Users boast massively enhanced muscular structure to go along with their power increase.
ZenGin engine
1997, The three were working at Greenwood Entertainment and dream of their own game. One day three students of the university in Oldenburg present their engine. Later the four employees leave and found Piranha Bytes. They license the engine of the three students to realize their vision of a RPG and hire the three students, who later are called "mad scientists" internally. At some point, the engine gets the name ZenGin and is being improved throughout the development of Gothic, until game released in 2001.
Skateboarding
The process of heroes riding a skateboard. If the game does not originally belong to the skateboarding genre, it is a mini-game, a bonus level or part of a cutscene.
Neck Cracking
When characters demonstratively crack their neck vertebrae or jaw, turning their head sharply to one side, sometimes helping themselves with their hands
Huns
Miner
Snake Charming
An ancient recreational profession in Asian and Middle Eastern countries, involving the controlled exposure of a venomous snake to the sounds of a flute-like instrument or stick
Principal
Russian Blue
A Russian breed of cat.
Pegasusmon
Pegasusmon is an Armor level Digimon usually associated with Patamon.
Enemies Breaking Down Doors
It is a very common concept in horror-themed video games. If the enemy does not break in through the window, then wait for him through the door
Knuckle Cracking
When characters demonstratively crunch their fingers by tensely twisting them or pressing one hand against the other
Dodon Ray
The Dodon Ray, also known as the Dodon Wave, and Dodonpa in Japanese, is a thin beam ki attack utilized by the Crane School in Dragon Ball.
Tokyo Game Show 2025
Tokyo Game Show 2025 runs from September 25 to September 28, 2025.