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311 relations: Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Action-adventure game, Alison Haislip, Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Prime Video, AOL, Apollo, Apple Inc., Ares, Asclepius, Asgard, Athena, Athens, Atlas (mythology), Attica, Æsir, Backward compatibility, Baldr, Bear McCreary, Blu-ray, Bluepoint Games, Break Media, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Capcom, Card game, Ceryx, Characters of God of War, Chris Roberson (author), Clash of the Titans (1981 film), Clock rate, CMON Limited, Combo (video games), Comic Book Resources, Complex Networks, Computer and Video Games, Computer graphics lighting, Consequence (publication), Cooperative video game, Cory Barlog, Cris Velasco, D.I.C.E. Award for Game of the Year, D.I.C.E. Award for Mobile Game of the Year, D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Daniel Craig, Dark Horse Comics, David Jaffe, David Self, Daxter (video game), Daybreak Game Company, DC Comics, ... Expand index (261 more) »
- Action-adventure games by series
- Fiction about revenge
- Hack and slash games by series
- Video game franchises introduced in 2005
- Video games set in ancient Greece
- Viking fantasy
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of video game industry professionals.
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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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Alison Haislip
Alison Fesq Haislip is an American actress and former television personality for Attack of the Show! on the first incarnation of the G4 network and the NBC reality singing competition show The Voice.
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Amazon MGM Studios
Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon launched in 2010.
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.
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AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
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Apollo
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
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Ares
Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) is the Greek god of war and courage.
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Asclepius
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
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Asgard
In Nordic mythology, Asgard (Old Norse: Ásgarðr; "enclosure of the Æsir") is a location associated with the gods.
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Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Atlas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Atlas (Ἄτλας, Átlās) is a Libyan god and a Titan in Greek mythology condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity in Libya after the Titanomachy.
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Attica
Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
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Æsir
Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in Germanic paganism.
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Backward compatibility
In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.
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Baldr
Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology.
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Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American composer of film, television, and video game scores.
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Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.
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Bluepoint Games
Bluepoint Games Inc is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.
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Break Media
Break Media was an American digital media company that owned several Internet properties targeted at men (males aged 18–34 make up 70% of their visitors), including Break.com (its first website), Screen Junkies, CagePotato, Chickipedia, HolyTaco, MadeMan, AllLeftTurns, TuVez and GameFront.
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.
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Capcom
is a Japanese video game company.
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Card game
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).
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Ceryx
In Greek mythology, Ceryx (Κῆρυξ Kērux, literally "herald") was a member of the Athenian royal family as the son of Hermes by either the princesses, Pandrosus or Agraulus.
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Characters of God of War
The characters of the God of War video game franchise belong to a fictional universe based on Greek mythology and Norse mythology.
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Chris Roberson (author)
John Christian Roberson (born August 25, 1970), known professionally as Chris Roberson, is an American science fiction author and publisher who is best known for alternate history novels and short stories.
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Clash of the Titans (1981 film)
Clash of the Titans is a 1981 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Desmond Davis and written by Beverley Cross, loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus. God of War (franchise) and Clash of the Titans (1981 film) are Greek and Roman deities in fiction.
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Clock rate
In computing, the clock rate or clock speed typically refers to the frequency at which the clock generator of a processor can generate pulses, which are used to synchronize the operations of its components, and is used as an indicator of the processor's speed.
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CMON Limited
CMON Limited, formerly known as CoolMiniOrNot is a publicly listed miniatures and board game publisher, trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Combo (video games)
In video games, a combo (short for combination) is a set of actions performed in sequence, usually with strict timing limitations, that yield a significant benefit or advantage.
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Comic Book Resources
CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.
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Complex Networks
Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City.
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Computer and Video Games
Computer and Video Games (also known as CVG, Computer & Video Games, C&VG, Computer + Video Games, or C+VG) was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004.
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Computer graphics lighting
Computer graphics lighting is the collection of techniques used to simulate light in computer graphics scenes.
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Consequence (publication)
Consequence (previously Consequence of Sound) is an independently owned New York–based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television.
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Cooperative video game
A cooperative video game, often abbreviated as co-op, is a video game that allows players to work together as teammates, usually against one or more non-player character opponents (PvE).
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Cory Barlog
Cory Barlog (born September 2, 1975) is an American video game designer, director, and writer who is the current creative director of video game development at Santa Monica Studio.
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Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco is an American video game and film composer.
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D.I.C.E. Award for Game of the Year
The D.I.C.E. Award for Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.
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D.I.C.E. Award for Mobile Game of the Year
The D.I.C.E. Award for Mobile Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.
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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.
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Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor.
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Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986.
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David Jaffe
David Scott Jaffe (born April 13, 1971) is an American video game designer best known for directing the Twisted Metal and ''God of War'' series.
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David Self
David Christopher Self (born January 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter best known as the author of the screenplays for the films The Haunting, Road to Perdition and The Wolfman.
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Daxter (video game)
Daxter is a 2006 platform video game developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable on March 14, 2006.
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Daybreak Game Company
Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego.
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Deathmatch (video games)
Deathmatch, also known as free-for-all, is a gameplay mode integrated into many shooter games, including first-person shooter (FPS), and real-time strategy (RTS) video games, where the goal is to kill (or "frag") the other players' characters as many times as possible.
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Del Rey Books
Del Rey Books is an imprint of the Random House Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
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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.
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Devil May Cry
is an urban fantasy action-adventure game franchise created by Hideki Kamiya. God of War (franchise) and Devil May Cry are action-adventure games by series, hack and slash games by series and video games adapted into comics.
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Digital First Media
MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado, United States-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital.
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Digital Trends
Digital Trends is a Portland, Oregon-based tech news, lifestyle, and information website that publishes news, reviews, guides, how-to articles, descriptive videos and podcasts about technology and consumer electronics products.
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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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Draupnir
In Norse mythology, Draupnir (Old Norse:, "the dripper"Orchard (1997:34).) is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night, eight new rings 'drip' from Draupnir, each one of the same size and weight as the original.
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Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Drinking horn
A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel.
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Dual wield
Dual wielding is the technique of using two weapons, one in each hand, for training or combat.
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DualShock
The DualShock is a line of gamepads developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation family of video game consoles.
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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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E3 2009
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 (E3 2009) was the 15th E3 held.
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E3 2016
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016 (E3 2016) was the 22nd E3, during which several hardware manufacturers and software developers and publishers from the video game industry presented new and upcoming products to the attendees, primarily retailers and members of the video game press.
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Ebook
An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.
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Edge (magazine)
Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc.
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Egyptian mythology
Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them.
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Eivør (singer)
Eivør Pálsdóttir (pronounced; born 21 July 1983), known mononymously as Eivør, is a Faroese singer-songwriter and actress.
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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.
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Erinyes
The Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
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Eurogamer
Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.
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Expansion pack
An expansion pack, expansion set, supplement, or simply expansion, is an addition to an existing role-playing game, tabletop game, video game, collectible card game or miniature wargame.
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Experience point
An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game.
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Extended play
An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
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Faroe Islanders
Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (føroyingar; færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands.
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Fast travel
Fast travel or teleportation is a video game mechanic used in open world games that allows a player character to instantaneously travel between previously discovered locations (teleport waypoints or fast-travel points) without having to traverse that distance in real time.
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Fates
The Fates are a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently represented as a trio of goddesses.
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Feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
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Fimbulwinter
Fimbulwinter (from Fimbulvetr) is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök in Norse mythology.
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First-person (video games)
In video games, first-person (also spelled first person) is any graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player character, or from the inside of a device or vehicle controlled by the player character.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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Frame rate
Frame rate, most commonly expressed in or FPS, is typically the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed.
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Freyja
In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future).
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Future plc
Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.
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Future US
Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.
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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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G4 Media (TV company)
G4 Media, LLC is an in-name only unit of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming which maintains the programming of G4, a defunct 24-hour cable and satellite channel dedicated to video games, along with its former competitor, TechTV/ZDTV.
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Gaia
In Greek mythology, Gaia (Γαῖα|, a poetic form of, meaning 'land' or 'earth'),,,. also spelled Gaea, is the personification of Earth.
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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 Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers.
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Game engine
A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs such as a level editor.
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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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GameFront
GameFront is a video game website that provides patches, demos, modifications, and other user generated game related content to users.
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GamePro
GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.
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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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GameRevolution
GameRevolution (formerly Game-Revolution) is a gaming website created in 1996.
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GameSpot
GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.
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GameSpy
GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.
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GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews.
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GameStop
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer.
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Gawker Media
Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and blog network.
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Gerard Marino
Gerard Kendrick Marino (born April 1, 1968) is a film and video game score composer, most notably contributing heavily to the Greek mythology-based games of the God of War series.
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Gladiator (2000 film)
Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson.
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Glossary of video game terms
This is a non-comprehensive list that includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players.
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God of War (2005 video game)
God of War is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). God of War (franchise) and God of War (2005 video game) are Greek and Roman deities in fiction and video games set in ancient Greece.
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God of War (2018 video game)
God of War is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. God of War (franchise) and God of War (2018 video game) are video games based on Norse mythology, video games set in Norway and video games set in the Viking Age.
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God of War (DC Comics)
God of War is a six-issue American comic book limited series set in the Greek mythology era of the God of War universe.
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God of War II
God of War II is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). God of War (franchise) and God of War II are video games set in ancient Greece.
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God of War III
God of War III is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. God of War (franchise) and God of War III are Greek and Roman deities in fiction and video games set in ancient Greece.
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God of War Ragnarök
God of War Ragnarök is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. God of War (franchise) and God of War Ragnarök are video games based on Norse mythology, video games set in Norway and video games set in the Viking Age.
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God of War video game collections
God of War is an action-adventure video game series, the first era of which was loosely based on Greek mythology. God of War (franchise) and God of War video game collections are video games set in antiquity.
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God of War: Ascension
God of War: Ascension is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). God of War (franchise) and God of War: Ascension are video games set in ancient Greece.
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God of War: Betrayal
God of War: Betrayal is an action-adventure mobile game developed by Javaground and Sony Online Entertainment's (SOE) Los Angeles division, and published by Sony Pictures Digital. God of War (franchise) and God of War: Betrayal are video games set in ancient Greece.
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God of War: Chains of Olympus
God of War: Chains of Olympus is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Ready at Dawn, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). God of War (franchise) and God of War: Chains of Olympus are video games set in ancient Greece.
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God of War: Ghost of Sparta
God of War: Ghost of Sparta is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). God of War (franchise) and God of War: Ghost of Sparta are video games set in ancient Greece.
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Golden apple
The golden apple is an element that appears in various national and ethnic folk legends or fairy tales.
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Golden Joystick Awards
The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People's Gaming Awards, is a video game award ceremony; it awards the best video games of the year, as voted for originally by the British general public, but is now a global event that can be voted online via GamesRadar+.
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Gorgons
The Gorgons (Γοργώνες), in Greek mythology, are three monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, said to be the daughters of Phorcys and Ceto.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Hack and slash
Hack and slash, also known as hack and slay (H&S or HnS) or slash 'em up, refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat with melee-based weapons (such as swords or blades).
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Haptic technology
Haptic technology (also kinaesthetic communication or 3D touch) is technology that can create an experience of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user.
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HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.
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Health (game terminology)
Health is a video game or tabletop game quality that determines the maximum amount of damage or fatigue something takes before leaving the main game.
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Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal was an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, published between 1977 and 2023.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Helios
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (Ἥλιος ||Sun; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun.
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Hermes
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
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High-definition remasters for PlayStation consoles
Sony has released a number of previously released PlayStation video games, remastered in high-definition (HD) for their newer consoles, a form of porting.
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Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.
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Horkos
In Greek mythology, the figure of Horkos (Ancient Greek: Ὅρκος) personifies the curse that will be inflicted on any person who swears a false oath.
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Hozier
Andrew John Hozier-Byrne (born 17 March 1990), known professionally as Hozier, is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter.
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Iðunn
In Norse mythology, Iðunn is a goddess associated with apples and youth.
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Ico
is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.
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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.
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the video game industry
The video game industry has been substantially impacted by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in various ways, most often due to concerns over travel to and from China or elsewhere, and delays in the manufacturing processes within China.
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International Data Group
International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.
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Item (game terminology)
In pen and paper games and computer and video games, an item is an object within the game world that can be collected by a player or, occasionally, a non-player character.
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ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.
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Java Platform, Micro Edition
Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for embedded and mobile devices (micro-controllers, sensors, gateways, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, TV set-top boxes, printers).
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Javaground
Javaground was an American provider of a suite of development and porting tools for the mobile games industry called the Xpress Suite.
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Jötunheimr
The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called "giants").
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Jötunn
A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.
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Jeff Rona
Jeffrey Carl "Jeff" Rona (born March 3, 1957) is an American composer for film.
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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.
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Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbanding of Overcast and Aftershock.
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Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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Kinetica
Kinetica is a racing video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.
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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.
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Kratos (God of War)
Kratos (lit) is a character and the protagonist of Santa Monica Studio's ''God of War'' series, based on Greek mythology and, later, Norse mythology.
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Laufey (mythology)
Laufey (Old Norse) or Nál is a figure in Norse mythology and the mother of Loki.
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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 war deities
A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed.
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Live action
Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation.
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Loki
Loki is a god in Norse mythology.
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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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Magic (game terminology)
Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special magical abilities or "spells".
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Mandatory (company)
Mandatory (formerly CraveOnline Media) is a lifestyle website based in Los Angeles with sales offices in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.
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Marcus Dunstan
Marcus Dunstan is an American screenwriter and director who, along with Patrick Melton, wrote screenplay for the film Feast, which was the winner of Season Three of the filmmaking competition reality TV series Project Greenlight.
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Marianne Krawczyk
Marianne Krawczyk (born June 24, 1964) is a screenwriter and video game writer.
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Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are screenwriters best known for their work on Children of Men (for which they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Iron Man.
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Marv Wolfman
Marvin Arthur Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book and novelization writer.
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Matthew Stover
Matthew Woodring Stover (born January 29, 1962) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist.
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Maxim (magazine)
Maxim (stylized in all caps) is an international men's magazine, devised and launched in the UK in 1995, but based in New York City since 1997, and prominent for its photography of actors, singers, and female models whose careers are at a current peak.
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Maya mythology
Mayan or Maya mythology is part in of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles.
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Mímir
Mímir or Mim is a figure in Norse mythology, renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, who is beheaded during the Æsir–Vanir War.
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Mead
Mead, also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.
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Messenger (software)
Messenger, also known as Facebook Messenger, is an American proprietary instant messaging service developed by Meta Platforms.
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Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.
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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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Midgard
In Germanic cosmology, Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse Miðgarðr; Old English Middangeard, Old Saxon Middilgard, Old High German Mittilagart, and Gothic Midjun-gards; "middle yard", "middle enclosure") is the name for Earth (equivalent in meaning to the Greek term οἰκουμένη: oikouménē, "inhabited") inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology.
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Mike Reagan
Michael Reagan is an American composer, songwriter and music producer for film, television, and video games.
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Minigame
A minigame (also spelled mini game and mini-game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short game often contained within another video game.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Minotaur
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (. Μινώταυρος; in Latin as Minotaurus) is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
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Mjölnir
Mjölnir (from Old Norse Mjǫllnir) is the hammer of the thunder god Thor in Norse mythology, used both as a devastating weapon and as a divine instrument to provide blessings.
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Moirai
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Moiraioften known in English as the Fateswere the personifications of destiny.
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Morpheus
Morpheus ('Fashioner', derived from the μορφή meaning 'form, shape') is a god associated with sleep and dreams.
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Multisample anti-aliasing
Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is a type of spatial anti-aliasing, a technique used in computer graphics to remove jaggies.
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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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Muspelheim
In Norse cosmology, Muspelheim (Múspellsheimr), also called Muspell (Múspell), is a realm of fire.
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Mutiny Within
Mutiny Within is an American heavy metal band from Edison, New Jersey.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
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Norns
The Norns (norn, plural: nornir) are deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies.
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Norse cosmology
Norse cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws by the ancient North Germanic peoples.
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Norse mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
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North Hollywood, Los Angeles
North Hollywood is a Los Angeles, California neighborhood, located in the San Fernando Valley.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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Odin
Odin (from Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism.
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Onimusha
is a series of video games developed and published by Capcom. God of War (franchise) and Onimusha are action-adventure games by series and hack and slash games by series.
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Online game
An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or any other computer network available.
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Opeth
Opeth are a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1989.
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Owner's manual
An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.
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Pacific Rim Uprising
Pacific Rim Uprising is a 2018 American science fiction monster film directed by Steven S. DeKnight (in his feature-film directorial and writing debut), and written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder and T.S. Nowlin.
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Pandora
In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all" and δῶρον, dōron, i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or "all-giving") was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus.
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Pandora's box
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days.
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Pantheon (religion)
A pantheon is the particular set of all gods of any individual polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition.
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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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Patrick Melton
Patrick Melton is an American screenwriter, producer and novelist.
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Persephone
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (Persephónē), also called Kore (the maiden) or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
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Peter Weller
Peter Francis Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American actor and television director.
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Phoenix (mythology)
The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.
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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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PlayStation
is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.
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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 Experience
PlayStation Experience, also known as PSX, is an annual event for the video game industry presented by Sony Interactive Entertainment used to reveal and advertise PlayStation games and game-related merchandise.
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PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.
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PlayStation Productions
PlayStation Productions, LLC is an American production company owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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PlayStation Vita
The PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.
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Polygon (website)
Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.
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Porting
In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).
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Power-up
In video games, a power-up is an object that adds temporary benefits or extra abilities to the player character as a game mechanic.
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Prometheus Global Media
Prometheus Global Media was a New York City–based B2B media company.
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Prop replica
A prop replica is a collectible recreation of a movie or television prop that is intended to accurately re-create the item as it appeared in the original media.
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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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Quick time event
In video games, a quick time event (QTE) is a method of context-sensitive gameplay in which the player performs actions on the control device shortly after the appearance of an on-screen instruction/prompt.
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Rafe Judkins
Rafe Lee Judkins (born January 8, 1983) is an American screenwriter and television producer.
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Ragnarök
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (Ragnarǫk) is a foretold series of impending events, including a great battle in which numerous great Norse mythological figures will perish (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdall, and Loki); it will entail a catastrophic series of natural disasters, including the burning of the world, and culminate in the submersion of the world underwater.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Ready at Dawn
Ready At Dawn Studios LLC (RAD) is an American video game developer located in Irvine, California, and is composed of former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment.
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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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Review aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.
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Rhodes
Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is an American record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock bands.
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Robert E. Vardeman
Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes called Vardebob) (born 1947) is an American science fiction fan and writer.
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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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Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.
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Roy Lee
Roy Lee (born March 23, 1969) is a Korean-American film and television producer.
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San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con (also referred to as Comic-Con or SDCC) is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, since 1970.
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Santa Monica Studio
Santa Monica Studio is an American video game developer based in Los Angeles.
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Sanzaru Games
Sanzaru Games, Inc. is an American video game development company that was founded in Foster City, California in 2006.
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ShockHound
ShockHound was an online music download site, retail store and social networking platform launched by Hot Topic in 2008.
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Showrunner
A showrunner is the top-level executive producer of a television series.
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Side-scrolling video game
A side-scrolling video game (alternatively side-scroller) is a game viewed from a side-view camera angle where the screen follows the player as they move left or right.
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Single-player video game
A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.
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Social network game
A social network game (sometimes simply referred to as a social media game, social gaming, or online social game) is a type of online game that is played through social networks or social media.
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Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sony Classical Records
Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.
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Sony Connect
Sony Connect, stylised Sony CONNECT, was the name for a series of related software products by Sony, most notably the Connect Music Store online music store.
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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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Sony Pictures Digital
Sony Pictures Digital (previously known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, Sony Pictures Interactive Network, and Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment) is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
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Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production and distribution studio.
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Soundtrack.Net
Soundtrack.Net (originally SoundtrackNet) is a website dedicated to film and television music.
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Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.
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Spatial anti-aliasing
In digital signal processing, spatial anti-aliasing is a technique for minimizing the distortion artifacts (aliasing) when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution.
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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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Steam (service)
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.
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Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight (born October 28, 1965) is an American filmmaker and comic book writer.
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Stig Asmussen
Stig Asmussen is an American video game developer best known for his work on the God of War series for Santa Monica Studio and the Star Wars Jedi series for Respawn Entertainment.
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Sumthing Distribution
Sumthing Distribution was an American company founded by Nile Rodgers.
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Swan song
The swan song (κύκνειον ᾆσμα; carmen cygni) is a metaphorical phrase for a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement.
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Tabletop game
Tabletop games or tabletops are games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface, such as board games, card games, dice games, miniature wargames, or tile-based games.
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Taking Dawn
Taking Dawn (earlier Devils Run) is a heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Text-based game
A text game or text-based game is an electronic game that uses a text-based user interface, that is, the user interface employs a set of encodable characters, such as ASCII, instead of bitmap or vector graphics.
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Thanatos
In Greek mythology, Thanatos (Θᾰ́νᾰτος, Thánatos, pronounced in "Death", from θνῄσκω thnēskō "(I) die, am dying") was the personification of death.
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The Escapist (magazine)
The Escapist (formerly known as Escapist Magazine) is an American video game website and online magazine.
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The Expanse (TV series)
The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for the Syfy network and is based on the series of novels of the same name by James S. A. Corey.
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The Game Award for Game of the Year
The Game Award for Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Game Awards.
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The Game Awards 2018
The Game Awards 2018 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2018.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Mercury News
The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Wheel of Time (TV series)
The Wheel of Time is an American fantasy television series developed by Rafe Judkins for Amazon Prime Video.
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Thor
Thor (from Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism.
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Titan Publishing Group
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment, which was established as Titan Books in 1981.
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Titanomachy
In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy (Τιτανομαχία||Titan-battle, Latin: Titanomachia) was a ten-year series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus) and their allies.
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Titans
In Greek mythology, the Titans (οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods.
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Trade paperback (comics)
In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually presenting either a complete miniseries, a story arc from a single title, or a series of stories with an arc or common theme.
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Trivium (band)
Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999.
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Twelve Olympians
relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver) and Apollo (lyre) from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40.
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Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates (born June 5, 1965) is an American musician, producer, and composer for film, television, and video game scores.
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UBM Technology Group
UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide.
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UGO Networks
UGO Entertainment, Inc. was a website that provided coverage of online media in entertainment, targeting males aged 18–34.
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Underworld
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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Universal Studios, Inc.
Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.
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Valhalla
In Norse mythology Valhalla is the anglicised name for Valhǫll ("hall of the slain").
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Vanir
In Norse mythology, the Vanir (Old Norse:, singular Vanr) are a group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom, and the ability to see the future.
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Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc., is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City.
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Vertigo Entertainment
Vertigo Entertainment is an American film and television production company based in Los Angeles, founded in 2001 by Roy Lee and Doug Davison.
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VG247
VG247 (previously videogaming247) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.
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Viacom (2005–2019)
The second phase of Viacom Inc. (or; a portmanteau of Video & Audio Communications), was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate with interests primarily in film and television.
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Video game console
A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.
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Virtual camera system
In 3D video games, a virtual camera system aims at controlling a camera or a set of cameras to display a view of a 3D virtual world.
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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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WildStorm
Wildstorm Productions (stylized as WildStorm) is an American comic book imprint.
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Winifred Phillips
Winifred Phillips is an American music composer and author.
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Winnie Waldron
Winnie Waldron is an American music producer for video games, a producer for radio, a radio script editor / adapter, a manuscript editor and a radio host.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Zeus
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
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Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company.
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1080p
1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced.
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12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
The 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards was the 12th edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 2008.
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14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
The 14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards was the 14th edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 2010.
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1Up Network
1Up.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.
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22nd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards
The 22nd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards was the 22nd edition of the D.I.C.E. Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 2018.
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2D computer graphics
2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital images) and by techniques specific to them.
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3D audio effect
3D audio effects are a group of sound effects that manipulate the sound produced by stereo speakers, surround-sound speakers, speaker-arrays, or headphones.
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3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.
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4K resolution
4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels.
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9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
The 9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards was the 9th edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 2005.
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See also
Action-adventure games by series
- Assassin's Creed
- Batman: Arkham
- Bayonetta
- BloodRayne
- Castlevania
- Castlevania games
- Darksiders
- Dead Rising
- Devil May Cry
- Dishonored (series)
- Far Cry
- God of War (franchise)
- Grand Theft Auto
- Gravity Rush (franchise)
- Infamous (series)
- Legacy of Kain
- Lego Harry Potter
- Lego Indiana Jones
- Lego Star Wars
- Mafia (series)
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Max Payne
- Metal Gear
- Metroid
- Metroid games
- Onimusha
- Pirates of the Caribbean video games
- Saints Row
- Shenmue
- Sly Cooper
- System Shock
- The Last of Us
- The Last of Us (franchise)
- The Legend of Zelda
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
- Tomb Raider
- Tomb Raider games
- Uncharted
- Watch Dogs
Fiction about revenge
- Captain Ahab
- Chūshingura
- God of War (franchise)
- Hecuba (play)
- Hop-Frog
- Jack Lumber
- Mattie the Goose-boy (poem)
- Naoki Hanzawa
- Neck (short story)
- Nunc Dimittis (short story)
- Regular Show season 4
- Sith
- Spurs (short story)
- The Alchemist (short story)
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Hare and the Hedgehog
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- The Record of the Wrongdoing of Đào Thị
- William and Mary (short story)
- Yuriwaka
- Zootopia: Hot Pursuit
Hack and slash games by series
- Bayonetta
- Darksiders
- Devil May Cry
- Diablo (series)
- Dynasty Warriors
- God of War (franchise)
- Golden Axe
- Kingdom Hearts
- Mana (series)
- Ninja Gaiden
- No More Heroes (series)
- OneChanbara
- Onechanbara
- Onimusha
- Samurai Warriors
- Sengoku Basara
- Shinobi (series)
Video game franchises introduced in 2005
- Agatha Christie (video game series)
- Big Brain Academy
- Brain Age
- Brothers in Arms (video game series)
- Buzz!
- Chibi-Robo!
- Club Penguin
- Club Penguin (franchise)
- Clubhouse Games
- Code Age
- Coded Arms
- Destroy All Humans
- Dungeon & Fighter
- Dungeon & Fighter (video game series)
- F.E.A.R.
- FlatOut
- Forza
- God of War (franchise)
- Guild Wars
- Guitar Hero
- Juiced (series)
- Lego Star Wars
- MLB 2K
- Mercenaries (series)
- Mystery Case Files
- NBA (video game series)
- Nicktoons Unite!
- Nintendogs
- Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
- Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (series)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
- Psychonauts
- Sengoku Basara
- Sniper Elite
- Submachine (series)
- Taimanin
- The Idolmaster
- Trauma Center (video game series)
- Yakuza (franchise)
Video games set in ancient Greece
- 0 A.D. (video game)
- Achilles: Legends Untold
- Age of Empires (video game)
- Age of Mythology
- Age of Mythology: Retold
- Age of Mythology: The Titans
- Altered Beast
- Assassin's Creed Nexus VR
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey – Legacy of the First Blade
- Daikatana
- Daikatana (Game Boy Color video game)
- Day Dreamin' Davey
- Glory of Heracles (video game)
- God of War (2005 video game)
- God of War (franchise)
- God of War II
- God of War III
- God of War: Ascension
- God of War: Betrayal
- God of War: Chains of Olympus
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta
- Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
- Herc's Adventures
- Hercules (1997 video game)
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Kingdom Hearts χ
- Kingdom Hearts (video game)
- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
- Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
- Kingdom Hearts Coded
- Kingdom Hearts II
- Kingdom Hearts III
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
- Mario's Time Machine
- Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods
- Rampage Through Time
- Spartan: Total Warrior
- Titan Quest
- Total War Saga: Troy
Viking fantasy
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Expeditions: Viking
- For Honor
- God of War (franchise)
- Hägar the Horrible
- How to Train Your Dragon
- How to Train Your Dragon (novel series)
- The 13th Warrior
- The Lost Vikings
- Thor (Marvel Comics)
- Vicky the Viking
- Vikings (TV series)
- Volgarr the Viking
References
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