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Giant Bomb is an American video game website and wiki that includes personality-driven gaming videos, commentary, news, and reviews, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis. [1]

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  1. 300 relations: Action role-playing game, Action-adventure game, Ad blocking, Adblock Plus, Adventure game, Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police, All Elite Wrestling, Always-on DRM, Anita Sarkeesian, Asperger syndrome, Bastion (video game), Battle royale game, BBC, BBC Online, Bethesda Game Studios, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, BioWare, Bleeding Cool, Blog, Brian Crecente, Brianna Wu, Buckner & Garcia, BuzzFeed, Byline, C418, Cambodia, Car Talk, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Child's Play (charity), Chrono Trigger, CNET, Cody Rhodes, CollegeHumor, Comedy, Cosmopolitan (magazine), COVID-19 pandemic, Critique, Crunchbase, Curator, Dan Ryckert, Database, Deadly Premonition, Death Battle, Democratic Kampuchea, Destructoid, Digital rights management, Digital video recorder, Domain name, Double Fine, Downloadable content, ... Expand index (250 more) »

  2. Fandom (website)
  3. Former CBS Interactive websites
  4. Video game Internet forums
  5. Video game podcasts

Action role-playing game

An action role-playing game (often abbreviated action RPG or ARPG) is a subgenre of video games that combines core elements from both the action game and role-playing genre.

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Action-adventure game

An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.

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Ad blocking

Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network.

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Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus (ABP) is a free and open-source browser extension for content-filtering and ad blocking.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.

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Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police

("Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police") is a long-running, popular German television series about a two-man team of highway police (Autobahnpolizei), originally set in Berlin and since 1999 in the area of Cologne.

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All Elite Wrestling

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Always-on DRM

Always-on DRM or always-online DRM is a form of DRM that requires a consumer to remain connected to a server, especially through an internet connection, to use a particular product.

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Anita Sarkeesian

Anita Sarkeesian (born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic.

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Asperger syndrome

Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a term formerly used to describe a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.

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Bastion (video game)

Bastion is an action role-playing video game developed by independent developer Supergiant Games and originally published in 2011 by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Battle royale game

A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios is an American video game developer and a studio of ZeniMax Media based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a 2003 racing video game developed by Stellar Stone and published by GameMill Publishing.

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BioWare

BioWare is a Canadian video game developer based in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Bleeding Cool

Bleeding Cool is an Internet news site, focusing on comics, television, film, board games, and video games.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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Brian Crecente

Brian Crecente (born July 28, 1970) is an American journalist and columnist.

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Brianna Wu

Brianna Wu (born July 6, 1977) is an American video game developer and computer programmer.

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Buckner & Garcia

Buckner & Garcia was an American musical duo consisting of Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia from Akron, Ohio.

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.

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Byline

The byline (or by-line in British English) on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name of the writer of the article.

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C418

Daniel Rosenfeld (born 9 May 1989), better known as C418 (pronounced "see four eighteen"), is a German musician, producer and sound engineer.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Car Talk

Car Talk refers to the work of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, that includes a website, and a podcast of reruns that is currently hosted by Apple Podcasts, NPR Podcasts, and Sticher.

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Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is an adventure video game by indie developer Greg Lobanov and published by Finji.

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Child's Play (charity)

Child's Play is a charitable organization that donates toys and games to children's hospitals worldwide.

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Chrono Trigger

is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. Giant Bomb and CNET are 2020 mergers and acquisitions and former CBS Interactive websites.

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Cody Rhodes

Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes (born Cody Garrett Runnels; June 30, 1985) is an American professional wrestler.

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CollegeHumor

CH Media, doing business as Dropout, is an Internet comedy company based in Los Angeles which produces content for release on its streaming service, Dropout, and on YouTube.

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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.

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Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan (stylized in all caps) is an American quarterly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Critique

Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse.

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Crunchbase

Crunchbase is a company that provides information about businesses.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Dan Ryckert

Dan Ryckert is an American Games Entertainer, producer.

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Database

In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.

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Deadly Premonition

Deadly Premonition is a 2010 open world survival horror video game developed by Access Games.

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Death Battle

Death Battle (stylized as DEATH BATTLE!) is an American animated battleboarding web series.

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Democratic Kampuchea

Democratic Kampuchea (renamed from Kampuchea in 1976) was the Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979, under the totalitarian dictatorship of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge.

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Destructoid

Destructoid is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author. Giant Bomb and Destructoid are 2022 mergers and acquisitions.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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Digital video recorder

A digital video recorder (DVR), also referred to as a personal video recorder (PVR) particularly in Canada and British English, is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.

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Domain name

In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.

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Double Fine

Double Fine Productions, Inc. is an American first-party video game developer of Xbox Game Studios based in San Francisco, California.

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Downloadable content

Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher.

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Dreamcast

The is the final home video game console manufactured by Sega.

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E3

E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) was an annual trade event for the video game industry organized and presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).

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Ed Boon

Edward "Ed" Boon (born February 22, 1964)Birthday references.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London.

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Eighth generation of video game consoles

The eighth generation of video game consoles began in 2012, and consists of four home video game consoles: the Wii U released in 2012, the PlayStation 4 family in 2013, the Xbox One family in 2013, and the Nintendo Switch family in 2017.

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Elden Ring

is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology. Giant Bomb and Engadget are video game podcasts.

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English Wikipedia

The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.

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Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.

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Euro Truck Simulator 2

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a truck simulator game developed and published by SCS Software for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS and was initially released as open development on 18 October 2012.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network. Giant Bomb and Eurogamer are video game Internet forums and video game news websites.

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Evil Uno

Nicolas Dansereau (born July 20, 1987), better known by the ring name Evil Uno, is a Canadian professional wrestler.

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Evolution Championship Series

The Evolution Championship Series, commonly known as Evo, is an American annual esports event that focuses exclusively on fighting games.

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Extra Life (fundraiser)

Extra Life is a fundraising event, the proceeds of which go to branches of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

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Fandom (website)

Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Giant Bomb and Fandom (website) are wikis.

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Firaxis Games

Firaxis Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Sparks, Maryland.

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Formula One

Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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FromSoftware

FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game development and publishing company.

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G-force

The g-force or gravitational force equivalent is mass-specific force (force per unit mass), expressed in units of standard gravity (symbol g or g0, not to be confused with "g", the symbol for grams).

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G4 (American TV network)

G4 (also known as G4TV) was an American pay television and digital network owned by NBCUniversal and later Comcast Spectacor that primarily focused on video games.

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Gail Berman

Gail Berman (born August 17, 1956) is an American producer and television executive.

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Galactic Empire (Star Wars)

The Galactic Empire, also known simply as the Empire, is a fictional autocracy featured in the Star Wars franchise.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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Game jam

A game jam is an event where participants try to make a video game from scratch.

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.

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Gamergate (harassment campaign)

Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture.

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Games Done Quick

Games Done Quick (GDQ) is a semiannual video game speedrun charity marathon held in the United States, originally organized by the Speed Demos Archive and SpeedRunsLive communities.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games. Giant Bomb and GameSpot are 2020 mergers and acquisitions, 2022 mergers and acquisitions, Fandom (website), former CBS Interactive websites, video game Internet forums and video game news websites.

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GamesRadar+

GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews. Giant Bomb and GamesRadar+ are video game news websites.

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GameTrailers

GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002. Giant Bomb and GameTrailers are video game news websites.

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Gary Whitta

Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is an English-American screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist.

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Gender representation in video games

The portrayal of gender in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies and is discussed in the context of sexism in video gaming.

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Geoff Keighley

Geoff Keighley (born) is a Canadian video game journalist and television presenter, best known for his role as the host of several video game industry conferences & presentations.

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GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.

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Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

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Greg Miller (host)

Gregory James Miller (born April 27, 1983) is an American media personality who came to prominence as a former editor and video host for the entertainment website IGN.

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Hades (video game)

Hades is a 2020 roguelike action role-playing game developed and published by Supergiant Games.

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Harassment

Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature.

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Harmonix

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., doing business as Harmonix, is an American video game developer company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken is a global technology editor for Fast Company and the founder of Technologizer, a website about personal technology.

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Hidetaka Suehiro

, known as SWERY or Swery65, is a Japanese video game director and writer.

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Hitman (2016 video game)

Hitman is a 2016 stealth video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Idle Thumbs

Idle Thumbs is a video game culture website and podcast network founded in 2004. Giant Bomb and Idle Thumbs are video game podcasts.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. Giant Bomb and IGN are video game Internet forums and video game news websites.

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Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.

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Inquisitr

Inquisitr is a news website started in 2007 for the purpose of covering news and entertainment stories.

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International Game Developers Association

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is a nonprofit professional association whose stated mission is to "support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers." The IGDA is incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation.

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Internet celebrity

An internet celebrity (also referred to as a social media influencer, social media personality, internet personality, or influencer) is an individual who has acquired or developed their fame and notability on the Internet.

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Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Internet meme

An Internet meme, or simply meme, is a cultural item (such as an idea, behaviour, or style) that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms.

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IO Interactive

IO Interactive A/S (IOI) is a Danish video game developer based in Copenhagen, best known for creating and developing the Hitman and Kane and Lynch franchises.

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Iron Brigade (video game)

Iron Brigade, formerly titled Trenched, is a 2011 video game, developed by Double Fine Productions, published by Microsoft Studios as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade title on the Xbox 360, and released for Microsoft Windows in 2012.

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Iron Galaxy

Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC is an American video game developer studio founded on August 14, 2008, and based in Chicago, Illinois, with a second studio in Orlando, Florida that was opened in 2012, a third studio in Nashville, Tennessee in 2022, and a fourth in Austin, Texas.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

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Janina Gavankar

Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician.

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Jeff Bakalar

Jeffrey Ian Bakalar (born) is a professional podcaster, video game journalist, and formerly the host of CNET's longest-running podcast, The 404 Show.

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Jeff Gerstmann

Jeff Gerstmann (born August 1, 1975) is an American video game journalist.

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Jessica Chobot

Jessica Chobot (born Jessica Lynn Horn; July 7, 1977) is an American on-camera host and writer.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Joystiq

Joystiq was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL. Giant Bomb and Joystiq are video game news websites.

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Justin McElroy

Justin Tyler McElroy (born November 8, 1980) is an American podcaster, comedian, and former video game journalist.

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a 2007 third-person shooter video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive in North America and PAL regions, and Spike in Japan, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.

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Klei Entertainment

Klei Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian video game development company located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Giant Bomb and Kotaku are video game news websites.

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L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games.

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Let's Play

A Let's Play (LP) is a video (or screenshots accompanied by text) documenting the playthrough of a video game, often including commentary and/or a camera view of the gamer's face.

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List of Game of the Year awards

Game of the Year (GotY) is an award given to a video game by various award events and media publications that they feel represented the pinnacle of gaming that year.

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List of presidents of the United States

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College.

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List of YouTubers

YouTubers are people mostly known for their work on the video sharing platform YouTube.

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Lloyd Braun

Lloyd Braun (born 1958) is an American media executive and attorney.

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Los Alamitos, California

The Little Cottonwoods is a city in Orange County, California.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

is a crossover fighting video game developed by Capcom in collaboration with Eighting.

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Mashable

Mashable is a news website, digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2004.

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Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios and Electronic Arts for Windows and Xbox 360 in 2010 and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3 in 2011.

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Matt Shipman

Matt Shipman (born August 19, 1992) is an American voice actor.

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Medusa (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom)

Medusa is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. Giant Bomb and Metacritic are 2020 mergers and acquisitions, 2022 mergers and acquisitions, Fandom (website) and former CBS Interactive websites.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a 2014 action-adventure video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.

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Minority group

The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.

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Monolith Productions

Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington.

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Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.

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Mortal Kombat Annihilation

Mortal Kombat Annihilation is a 1997 American martial arts fantasy film directed by John R. Leonetti in his directorial debut.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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MSNBC Reports

MSNBC Reports (formerly MSNBC Live) is the blanket title for the daytime rolling news programming block of the American cable news channel MSNBC. Programs under the banner are broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on weekdays and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on weekends. The programs are officially branded under the title of the current anchor, e.g.

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MTV News

MTV News was the news production division of MTV.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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N'Gai Croal

N'Gai Croal is a video game critic and consultant, previously employed by Newsweek, currently involved in his own consultancy company.

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Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Nintendo 3DS

The is a foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo.

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Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development

commonly abbreviated as Nintendo EAD and formerly known as Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department (abbreviated as Nintendo R&D4), was the largest software development division within the Japanese video game company Nintendo.

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Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development

abbreviated Nintendo EPD, is the largest division within the Japanese video game company Nintendo.

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Nintendo Switch

The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017.

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Noclip

Noclip is a crowdfunded media company dedicated to creating video game documentaries and archiving video game media.

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Nolan North

Nolan North (born October 31, 1970) is an American actor best known for his voice acting roles.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character in the Star Wars franchise.

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Online advertising

Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising that uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.

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Online community manager

An online community manager builds, grows and manages online communities, performing community management, often around a brand or cause.

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Op-ed

An op-ed piece is a short newspaper column that represents a writer's strong, informed, and focused opinion on an issue of relevance to a targeted audience.

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Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds is a 2019 action-adventure video game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive.

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Pac-Man

originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades.

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Pac-Man Fever (song)

"Pac-Man Fever" is a hit single by Buckner & Garcia.

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Paramount Global

Paramount Global (also known simply as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan.

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Paramount Network

Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.

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Paramount Streaming

Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media, CBS Interactive, and ViacomCBS Streaming) is a division of Paramount Global that oversees the company's video streaming technology and direct-to-consumer services; including Pluto TV and Paramount+.

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Patreon

Patreon is a monetization platform operated by Patreon, Inc., that provides business tools for content creators to run a subscription service and sell digital products.

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PAX (event)

PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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PBS News Hour

PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975.

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Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.

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Persona 4

released outside Japan as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, is a 2008 role-playing video game by Atlus.

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Peter Molydeux

Peter Molydeux is a Twitter account presented as a parody of the game designer Peter Molyneux.

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Peter Molyneux

Peter Douglas Molyneux (born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer.

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Phoning home

In computing, phoning home is a term often used to refer to the behavior of security systems that report network location, username, or other such data to another computer.

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Platformer

A platformer (also called a platform game, and sometimes a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment.

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Player versus player

Player versus player (PvP) is a type of multiplayer interactive conflict within a game between human players.

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation 5

The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation VR

The PlayStation VR (PS VR, known by its code name Project Morpheus during development) is a virtual reality headset developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which was released in October 2016.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Pol Pot

Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979.

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Policy

Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture. Giant Bomb and Polygon (website) are video game Internet forums and video game news websites.

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PR Newswire

PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases headquartered in Chicago.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.

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PROTECT IP Act

The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) was a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to the sale of infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the U.S.

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Protests against SOPA and PIPA

On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

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PUBG: Battlegrounds

PUBG: Battlegrounds (previously known as Player Unknown's Battlegrounds) is a 2017 battle royale game developed by PUBG Studios and published by Krafton.

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Public relations

Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.

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Puzzle video game

Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving.

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Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (known as Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction in most PAL countries, or Ratchet & Clank Future) is a 2007 action-adventure platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.

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Red Ventures

Red Ventures is an American media company that owns and operates brands such as Lonely Planet, CNET, ZDNet, The Points Guy, Healthline, and Bankrate.

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Relational database

A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film that is a sequel to Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is the third installment in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga".

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Rock Band Network

The Rock Band Network (abbreviated RBN) was a downloadable content service designed by Harmonix with the help of Microsoft to allow musical artists and record labels to make their music available as playable tracks for the Rock Band series of rhythm video games, starting with Rock Band 2 (2008).

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Rockstar North

Rockstar North (Rockstar Games UK Limited; formerly DMA Design Limited and Rockstar North Limited) is a British video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh.

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Roguelike

Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.

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Roku

Roku is a brand owned by the American tech company Roku, Inc.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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Roller coaster

A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep slopes, and other elements usually designed to produce a thrilling experience.

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Roller coaster inversion

A roller coaster inversion is a roller coaster element in which the track turns riders upside-down and then returns them to an upright position.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Sausalito, California

Sausalito (Spanish for "small willow grove") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located southeast of Marin City, south-southeast of San Rafael, and about north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Sean Vanaman

Sean Vanaman (born June 16, 1984) is an American video game designer, writer, and podcaster.

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Seventh generation of video game consoles

The seventh generation of home video game consoles began on November 22, 2005, with the release of Microsoft's Xbox 360 home console.

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Sexism and video games

Sexism in video gaming is prejudiced behavior or discrimination based on sex or gender as experienced by people who play and create video games, primarily women.

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Shacknews

Shacknews is a website that hosts news, features, editorial content and forums relating to video games. Giant Bomb and Shacknews are video game news websites.

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Shenmue

is an action-adventure game series created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki.

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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (formerly known as Six Flags Marine World, Marine World, The New Marine World Theme Park, and Marine World Africa USA) is a 135-acre (55 ha) animal theme park located in Vallejo, California, off of Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is a Japanese-American multinational video game and digital entertainment company of Sony.

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Speedrunning

Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible.

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Spike Video Game Awards

The Spike Video Game Awards (in short VGAs, known as the VGX for the final show) was an annual award show hosted by American television network Spike from 2002 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year.

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Star (classification)

Star ratings are a type of rating scale using a star glyph or similar typographical symbol.

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Star Wars Galaxies

Star Wars Galaxies was a Star Wars- themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based in the Star Wars universe.

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Stealth game

A stealth game is a type of video game in which the player primarily uses stealth to avoid or overcome opponents.

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Stop Online Piracy Act

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a proposed United States congressional bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.

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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)

The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.

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Super Mario Bros. (film)

Super Mario Bros. (also known as Super Mario Bros.: The Movie) is a 1993 fantasy adventure film based on Nintendo's Super Mario video game series.

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Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros.

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Super Mario Maker

is a 2015 platform game and game creation system developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U, released worldwide in September 2015.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.

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Supergiant Games

Supergiant Games, LLC is an American independent video game developer and publisher based in San Francisco.

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Survival horror

Survival horror is a subgenre of horror games.

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Team Bondi

Team Bondi Pty.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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Tested.com

Tested.com (often simply called Tested) is a website and YouTube channel that focuses on maker culture and technology.

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Tetris Effect

Tetris Effect is a block-dropping arcade-styled puzzle video game developed by Japanese studios Monstars and Resonair and published by Enhance Games.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas.

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The Force

The Force is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars fictional universe.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Last of Us

The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

is a 2023 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Press Democrat

The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation in California's North Bay, is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.

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Third-person shooter

Third-person shooter (TPS) is a subgenre of 3D shooter games in which the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.

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Tim Schafer

Timothy John Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American video game designer.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tokyo Game Show

, commonly known as TGS, is a video game trade fair and convention held annually in September in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan.

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TotalBiscuit

John Peter Bain (8 July 1984 – 24 May 2018), better known as TotalBiscuit (TB; sometimes The Cynical Brit or TotalHalibut), was an English video gaming commentator and game critic on YouTube.

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Train Simulator Classic

Train Simulator Classic 2024 (originally RailWorks and Train Simulator) is a train simulation game developed by Dovetail Games.

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Turn-based strategy

A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) where players take turns when playing.

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Twitch (service)

Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vallejo, California

Vallejo is a city in Solano County, California and the second largest city in the North Bay region of the Bay Area.

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VentureBeat

VentureBeat is an American technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Verbosity

Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary.

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Vice Media

Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video game culture

Video game culture or gaming culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed by video game hobbyists.

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Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

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Video game journalism

Video game journalism (or video game criticism) is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games, typically based on a core "reveal–preview–review" cycle.

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Video game localization

Video game localization (or computer game localisation), is the process of preparing a video game for a market outside of where it was originally published.

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Viral phenomenon

Viral phenomena or viral sensation are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them.

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Virtual community

A virtual community is a social work of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.

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Virtual Console

The Virtual Console is a defunct line of downloadable video games for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

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Vox Media

Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Wandersong

Wandersong is a puzzle adventure video game developed by American-Canadian indie developer Greg Lobanov.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warp (video games)

A warp, also known as a portal or teleporter, is an element in video game design that allows a player character instant travel between two locations or levels.

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We choose to go to the Moon

Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, commonly known by the sentence in the middle of the speech "We choose to go to the Moon", was a speech on September 12, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States.The aim was to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970 and bring him safely back to Earth.

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Website

A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

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Wetpaint

Wetpaint was an Internet company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Function(X).

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Whalerock Industries

Whalerock Industries Holding Company, LLC, commonly referred to as Whalerock Industries, is an American media and technology company.

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Whiskey Media

Whiskey Media was an American online media company founded independently by CNET co-founder Shelby Bonnie in 2008.

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Wii U

The Wii U is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii.

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Wiki

A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. Giant Bomb and wiki are wikis.

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Wipeout (2008 game show)

Wipeout is an American television game show that features contestants competing in (what was billed as) the "World's Largest" obstacle course which originally aired on ABC from June 24, 2008, to September 7, 2014.

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WordPress

WordPress (also known as WP or WordPress.org) is a web content management system.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion.

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Xavier Woods

Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox One

The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox Series X and Series S

The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are the fourth generation of consoles in the Xbox series.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a 2012 turn-based tactics video game that was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.

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XoJane

xoJane (also known as xoJane.com) was an American online magazine from 2011 to 2016 geared toward women and founded by Jane Pratt and co-published by Say Media.

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Xplay

Xplay (previously GameSpot TV, Extended Play, and X-Play) was a TV program about video games.

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Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games was a section of the Yahoo! website, launched on March 31, 1998, in which Yahoo! users could play games either with other users or by themselves. Giant Bomb and Yahoo! Games are video game news websites.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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YouTuber

A YouTuber is a type of content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel.

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Zoë Quinn

Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer.

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1Up Network

1Up.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games. Giant Bomb and 1Up Network are video game news websites.

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8-4

is a Japanese video game localization company based in Shibuya, Tokyo. Giant Bomb and 8-4 are video game podcasts.

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See also

Fandom (website)

Former CBS Interactive websites

Video game Internet forums

Video game podcasts

References

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