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The sixteenth annual PAX West took place August 30-September 2, 2019 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Where a video game comes with something "exclusive" only when you Pre-Order it, sometimes from a specific location. This can be a piece of DLC or it can be something not in-game or even "exclusive" or early access to demo or beta.
A public testing period is, or has been, offered for the general public prior to sale or general availability. Access is generally granted through giveaways, preorders, or crowd-funding rewards.
Swearing, cursing, call it what you want. It is an expression of anger or frustration, in most cases.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
A finishing move when a player quits an online match before it is finished.
It's never a good sign when blood begins falling from the sky like rain.
Random Loot is a popular concept for dungeon crawler and MMO style games. In essence, monsters or objects drop something that is considered valuable to the player with random qualities.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Colloquial term applied to hyper-aggressive play in all fighting games in North America, coined in southern California during the mid-90s. Popularized by tournament players like Alex Valle.
A sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
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A ninja clan in the Mortal Kombat universe. The clan had a fierce rivalry with the Lin Kuei before they were defeated by them.
A fighting game archetype where characters with a significant similarity in fighting style to Street Fighter's Ryu & Ken.
SNK fighting games are notorious for boss fights of ludicrous difficulty. Common symptoms of SNK Boss Syndrome include absurdly high attack priority, overpowered special attacks, and AIs that read button inputs. Though it's most common in SNK games, the syndrome has also appeared in games by other companies.
Featured mainly in fighting games, special attacks usually require more than just pressing a button to activate. They are usually unique or at least varied between characters.
Stage Fatality is where a defeated player/opponent was finished off into some deadly objects or plunging to falling areas.
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.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
Not to be confused with just any metal case, SteelBook is a brand of metal packaging for disc-based media.
When a character wears sunglasses even in the dark, or the player is rewarded for doing so.
A special combo-move in fighting games that is executable after building a meter throughout the match (or round).
Commonly found in fighting games, a super meter increases when either a character takes or gives damage (depending on the game). There are many variations on the super meter, depending on the franchise or game.
In the original Mortal Kombat timeline, a race of mutant warriors from Outworld who are aligned with Shao Kahn.
Named after the truck chase scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this is the action of reloading a shotgun with only one hand by flipping the gun while holding the lever.
Games which had been licensed out to toy manufacturers to create a tie-in toyline, Usually aimed at children or collectors depending on the audience of the games the toys were based off.
A game mode that allows you to train for combos, moves, etc.
Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine 3 is the third generation of the Unreal engine, and is base for numerous games, such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War and Roboblitz.
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