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Running at 60 FPS is standard for arcade & PC games, but hardware restrictions of consoles often force developers to aim for lower framerates in order to preserve visual detail or allow greater scale. 3D console games hitting 60 FPS are thus uncommon, though the trend of re-releasing games on newer hardware has technically resulted in more 3D console games hitting 60 FPS.
It's not easy to motion capture accurate drumming into a cutscene.
With fossils tracing back to the Jurassic Period, these aggressive freshwater fish are currently native to Asia, South America, and Australia. There are ten known Arowana species.
Short one-line audio clips spoken by the NPCs that populate the game world. Can be random or in reaction to the player or events.
Betrayal is when a person breaks the trust and faith that others have placed in them.
A sport in which the player throws a ball down a lane in order to knock over 10 pins that are set up in a triangular shape.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
Typically found in fighting games, combos are a series of strung-together moves.
Computer games that recommend players use a controller, rather than a keyboard and mouse. These are most often side-scrolling platformers and action games.
A person serving time in prison or an escaped criminal on the run from the law.
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
The process of fighting, but with dance.
A post-processing blurring effect used mostly by modern action games, particularly modern first-person shooters. Used to blur foreground or background elements to simulate a lens focus.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting a DualShock 4 controller to a computer and using it to play a game.
The twenty-second annual Electronic Entertainment Expo took place June 14-16, 2016 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
The twenty-fourth Electronic Entertainment Expo was held June 12-14, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
Extreme violence pertains to excessive amounts of blood, gore, or violent acts. These include decapitation, mutilation, dismemberment, amputation, defenestration, disembowelment, torture and much more.
When a new character needs to learn what has happened in the story thus far the screen fades to black so the player doesn't have to re-read information they already know.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
A frameup, or framing, is when someone tries to convince people someone else committed a crime. It could be in the form of leaving false clues or giving out false information.
A style of fast-paced melee combat in third person action-adventure games that is based off combos, chains and counters. Often involves using the environment to help subdue enemies.
Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment (named to fit the acronym 'FREE') is a quasi-genre invented by designer Yu Suzuki, describing a blend of adventure and open-world sandbox gameplay found in the Shenmue franchise.
Bet a little or bet the house. How much you win depends on how much you wager.
Games that have other games, usually older games from the same game series or publisher, hidden inside them and that you can play. Sometimes available in the game world or hidden as collectibles or behind challenges. this page both lists the games that are inside other games and the games that host the latter.
A screen where players can adjust the luminance value of a game's visuals. This is common in horror games.
The head honcho of a group of miscreants
A gang isn't just two crude dudes, it's a whole mess of them. There's all kinds of different gangs represented in games: street gangs, organized criminals, and even high school cliques.
Greatest hits is a general term for re-releases of games which have sold a certain number of copies, as part of a program managed by the console manufacturer.
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