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The 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards celebrate the best games of 2021, as voted by industry professionals.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
The act of turning one thing into another, be it lead into gold or earth into air.
The ability to stop or reduce the damage from an oncoming attack.
Necessary to sustain life in organic creatures, the crimson fluid known as blood tends to make appearances when the body's structure is compromised in some way, a very, very common occurrence in videogames.
To strike someone with the butt, or stock, of a rifle. The act of using a non-handgun firearm as a blunt weapon.
A Christian holiday widely celebrated in the western world. It is often associated with festive spirit and presents.
Video game controversy revolves mostly around the psychological effects that games with graphic violence or sexual content in them can have on players. Other sources of controversy can range from racism, sexism, politics, or religion.
Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.
Crows are familiar over much of the world: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices.
After the cancellation of E3 2020 due to COVID-19, E3 returned as a digital-only event taking place from June 12-15.
To elude, escape, or get away from. Some games require players to escape from some people or things to perform some objective or avoid death.
An evil organization is a group of super-villans who are hell bent on world domination or something of a similar nature. Usually defeated by a single Spy/Superhero/Average Joe/small child.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a woman.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
Using physical force to damage an opponent, with or without an equipped weapon from a first person perspective.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
Women in Refrigerators (or "Fridging" for short) is an unfortunately popular plot device in storytelling where female characters are killed off or brutally harmed for the sole purpose of having an impact on a male character. The term was coined by comic book writer Gail Simone.
Some first-person games that wish to immerse the player in the experience more will go as far as to include full body awareness, or the ability to see the player character's body when looking down.
Some games replace letters or words in a title with numbers or symbols, usually to add more of a "badass edge" to them.
It's easy to lose oneself in the heat of battle. Luckily, some games will alert the player as to when they are close to death.
Many games allow you to buy stuff, these are the dudes who help sell it to you. Typically they also engage in light conversation.
Enemies that are adamant in their will to hunt you down. Example: Pac-Man ghosts.
An in-game mode which allows players to pause the action on screen and manipulate the camera to take a screenshot. First seen in Gran Turismo 4.
The act of using somebody's assets without giving the original creator credit.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Games that either require or optionally support Sony's PlayStation VR2 peripheral.
When a crew member or someone close to the crew passes away before a project is released, or they contributed significantly to an earlier project, that person is often still credited for their work or given a dedication.
Ray tracing is a method of graphical rendering that realistically simulates the way light interacts with the world, objects, and characters.
A game engine designed by Capcom to develop Resident Evil 7 biohazard and other future projects.
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