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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of industry professionals, which organize the annual D.I.C.E. ("Design Innovate Communicate Entertain") Summit which includes the presentations of the D.I.C.E. Awards.
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Action role-playing game
Action role-playing video games (abbreviated action RPG or ARPG) are a subgenre of role-playing video games.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Ars Technica
Ars Technica (a Latin-derived term that the site translates as the "art of technology") is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.
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Artificial intelligence in video games
In video games, artificial intelligence is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-player characters (NPCs), similar to human-like intelligence.
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Asphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.
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Assault rifle
An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Big Giant Circles
Jimmy Hinson, also known as Big Giant Circles (BGC), is a musician and composer in the video games industry.
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BioWare
BioWare is a Canadian video game developer located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American-Hong Kong neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.
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Boss (video gaming)
In video gaming, a boss is a significant computer-controlled enemy.
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Brandon Keener
Brandon James Keener (born October 1, 1974) is an American actor, living in Los Angeles, California.
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.
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Bullet time
Bullet time (also known as frozen moment, the big freeze, dead time, flow motion or time slice) is a visual effect or visual impression of detaching the time and space of a camera (or viewer) from that of its visible subject.
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Casey Hudson
Casey Hudson is a Canadian video game developer, known for his work at several of BioWare's video games, and mainly the Mass Effect trilogy as game director.
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CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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Character class
In role-playing games (RPG), a character class is a job or profession commonly used to differentiate the abilities of different game characters.
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Characterization
Characterization or characterisation is the representation of persons (or other beings or creatures) in narrative and dramatic works of art.
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CNET
CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.
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Commander Shepard
Commander Shepard is the player character in BioWare's Mass Effect game trilogy: Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3.
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Computer and Video Games
Computer and Video Games (CVG, C&VG or C+VG) was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004.
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Computer program
A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.
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Context-sensitive user interface
A context-sensitive user interface is one which can automatically choose from a multiplicity of options based on the current or previous state(s) of the program operation.
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Cooperative gameplay
Cooperative gameplay (often abbreviated as co-op) is a feature in video games that allows players to work together as teammates, usually against one or more AI opponents.
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Cover system
A cover system is a video game gameplay mechanic that allows a virtual avatar to hide from and avoid dangers, usually in a three-dimensional world.
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Crash (computing)
In computing, a crash (or system crash) occurs when a computer program, such as a software application or an operating system, stops functioning properly and exits.
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Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms.
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Cutscene
A cutscene or event scene (sometimes in-game cinematic or in-game movie) is a sequence in a video game that is not interactive, breaking up the gameplay.
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D. C. Douglas
D.C. Douglas (born February 6, 1966) is an American character actor, voice actor, writer, editor and director.
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Destructoid
Destructoid is an independent website, that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez.
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Dotdash
Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.
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Downloadable content
Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for a released video game.
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Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor.
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Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins is a role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.
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Drew Karpyshyn
Drew Karpyshyn (born July 28, 1971) is a Canadian video game scenario writer, scriptwriter and novelist.
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EA Montreal
EA Montreal is a Canadian video game development studio owned and operated by Electronic Arts.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Edge (magazine)
Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom, which publishes 13 issues of the magazine per year.
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Edmonton
Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.
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Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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Electronic Entertainment Expo
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly referred to as E3, is a premier trade event for the video game industry.
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.
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Enterbrain
, formerly, is a Japanese publisher and brand company of Kadokawa Corporation founded on January 30, 1987 as.
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Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. (formerly Potomac Computer Systems and later Epic MegaGames, Inc.) is an American video game and software development corporation based in Cary, North Carolina.
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Escape pod
An escape pod, escape capsule, life capsule or lifepod is a capsule or craft used to escape a vessel in an emergency, usually only big enough for one person.
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Eurogamer
Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.
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Experience point
An experience point (often abbreviated to exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game.
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Famitsu
is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Enterbrain, Inc. and Tokuma.
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Frame rate
Frame rate (expressed in or fps) is the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images called frames appear on a display.
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Galactic Center
The Galactic Center is the rotational center of the Milky Way.
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Galaxy
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.
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Gamasutra
Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.
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Game Developers Choice Awards
The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games.
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Game Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking.
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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 Revolution
Game Revolution (formerly Game-Revolution) or GR is a gaming website created in 1996.
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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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Gamescom
Gamescom (stylized as gamescom) is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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GameSpot
GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.
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GameSpy
GameSpy was a provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games.
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GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ is an entertainment website dedicated to video game-related news, previews and reviews, that is owned by Future Publishing (a subsidiary of Future plc).
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GameStop
GameStop Corp. (known simply as GameStop) is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer.
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GameTrailers
GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002.
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Garrus Vakarian
Garrus Vakarian is a fictional character in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who acts as a party member (or "squadmate") in each of the three games in the original trilogy.
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Glossary of video game terms
This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.
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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 can now be voted on by anyone online.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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Hang (computing)
In computing, a hang or freeze occurs when either a computer program or system ceases to respond to inputs.
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Harmonic
A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.
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Head-up display (gaming)
In video gaming, the HUD (head-up display) or status bar is the method by which information is visually relayed to the player as part of a game's user interface.
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Health (gaming)
Health or vitality is an attribute assigned to entities such as characters or objects within role-playing games and video games, that indicates their continued ability to function.
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Identification friend or foe
Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is an identification system designed for command and control.
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IGN
IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.
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Illusive Man
The Illusive Man is a fictional character in BioWare's ''Mass Effect'' video game franchise.
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Indigo
Indigo is a deep and rich color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine.
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Insectoid
The term insectoid denotes any creature or object that shares a similar body or traits with common earth insects and arachnids.
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Interactive storytelling
Interactive storytelling (also known as interactive drama) is a form of digital entertainment in which the storyline is not predetermined.
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Interstellar travel
Interstellar travel is the term used for hypothetical crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planetary systems.
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Jack Wall (composer)
Jack Wall (born 1964 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) is an American video game music composer.
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Jade Empire
Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare, originally published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2005 as an Xbox exclusive.
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Jennifer Hale
Jennifer Hale is a Canadian-American voice actress best known for her work in video game franchises including Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, Spider-Man, BioShock Infinite, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
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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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Keythe Farley
Keythe Farley (born Keith Farley in 1963) is a voice actor, casting director and voice director.
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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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Lighting
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect.
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List of backward compatible games for Xbox One
The Xbox One gaming console has received updates from Microsoft since its launch in 2013 that enable it to play select games from its two predecessor consoles, Xbox and Xbox 360.
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List of video games considered the best
This is a list of video games that have consistently been ranked among the best of all time by video game journalists and critics.
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Magazine (firearms)
A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm.
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Magic (gaming)
Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special abilities or "spells".
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Mark Meer
Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor of Spanish/Irish descent who first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999-2006).
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third-person shooter video game series developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows, with the third installment also released on the Wii U. The fourth game was released on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2017.
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Mass Effect (video game)
Mass Effect is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios and Electronic Arts.
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Mass Effect 2 downloadable content
Mass Effect 2 is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.
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Mass Effect 2: Arrival
Mass Effect 2: Arrival is a downloadable content pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2.
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Mass Effect 2: Kasumi – Stolen Memory
Mass Effect 2: Kasumi – Stolen Memory is a downloadable content pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2.
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Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker is a downloadable content pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2.
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Mass Effect 2: Overlord
Mass Effect 2: Overlord is a downloadable content pack developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for the 2010 action role-playing video game Mass Effect 2.
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Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing third person shooter video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U. Officially announced on December 11, 2010, the game was released March 6, 2012 and marks the final chapter in the original ''Mass Effect'' trilogy of video games, completing the story of Commander Shepard.
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Mass Effect: Redemption
Mass Effect: Redemption is a four-part comic book mini-series.
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Mecha
The term may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that center on giant robots or machines controlled by people.
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Memory management
Memory management is a form of resource management applied to computer memory.
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Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
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Miranda Lawson
Miranda Lawson is a fictional character in the role-playing video game series Mass Effect by BioWare.
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Mordin Solus
Mordin Solus is a fictional character in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who serves as a party member (or "squadmate") in Mass Effect 2.
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Multiplayer video game
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally or over the internet.
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Natalia Cigliuti
Natalia Cigliuti (born September 6, 1978) is an Uruguayan American actress, best known for her roles as Lindsay Warner on Saved by the Bell: The New Class and as Anita Santos Warner on All My Children.
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Need for Speed
Need for Speed (NFS) is a racing video game franchise published by Electronic Arts and developed by Ghost Games.
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New Game Plus
A New Game Plus (or New Game+, often abbreviated as NG+) is an unlockable video game mode available in some video games that allows the player to start a new game after they finish it at least once, where certain features in NG+ not normally available in a first playthrough are added, and where certain aspects of the finished game affect the newly started game, such as keeping in the new game items or experience gained in the first playthrough.
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii
is a 2D side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii.
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Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
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Non-player character
A non-player character (NPC) in a game is any character that is not controlled by a player.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.
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Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope, previously called an oscillograph, and informally known as a scope or o-scope, CRO (for cathode-ray oscilloscope), or DSO (for the more modern digital storage oscilloscope), is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of varying signal voltages, usually as a two-dimensional plot of one or more signals as a function of time.
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Outer space
Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.
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Over the shoulder shot
In film or video, an over the shoulder shot (also over shoulder, ab tu, OTS, or third-person shot) is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.
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Overworld
An overworld is, in a broad sense, an area within a video game that interconnects all its levels or locations.
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Patch (computing)
A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.
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PC Magazine
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
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PC World
PC World, stylized PCWorld, is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.
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Pie menu
In computer interface design, a pie menu (also known as a radial menu) is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction.
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Planetary system
A planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in or out of orbit around a star or star system.
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PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.
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PlayStation Network
PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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Polygon (website)
Polygon is an American video game website that publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos.
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Prima Games
Prima Games is the largest publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States.
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PSU.com
PlayStation Universe (PSU.com) is a website providing news and forums for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita platforms.
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Quest (gaming)
A quest, or mission, is a task in video games that a player-controlled character, party, or group of characters may complete in order to gain a reward.
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Radiation
In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.
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Rate of fire
Rate of fire is the frequency at which a specific weapon can fire or launch its projectiles.
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Reticle
A reticle, or reticule, also known as a graticule, is a pattern of fine lines or markings built into the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescopic sight in a telescope, a microscope, or the screen of an oscilloscope, to provide references during visual examination.
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Role-playing video game
A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or an RPG as well as a computer role-playing game or a CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world.
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Saki Kaskas
Theodosius Kaskamanidis (September 24, 1971 – November 11?, 2016), better known as "Saki Kaskas" or "Captain Ginger", was a Greek video game music composer, best known for his soundtracks in the Need for Speed series.
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Saved game
A saved game (also sometimes called a game save, savegame, savefile, save point, or simply save) is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a video game.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green (born Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green; February 8, 1974) is an American actor, voice artist, comedian, producer, writer and director.
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Shacknews
Shacknews, commonly referred to as "The Shack", is a website offering news, features, editorial content, and forums relating to computer games and console games.
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Shooter game
Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time.
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Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.
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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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Sixaxis
Sixaxis (trademarked SIXAXIS) is a wireless gamepad produced by Sony for their PlayStation 3 video game console.
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Sniper rifle
A sniper rifle is a high-precision rifle designed for sniper missions.
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Software bug
A software bug is an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.
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Software framework
In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software.
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Soundtrack album
A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.
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Space probe
A space probe is a robotic spacecraft that does not orbit the Earth, but, instead, explores further into outer space.
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Special edition
The terms special edition, limited edition, and variants such as deluxe edition, or collector's edition, are used as a marketing incentive for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books, prints, video games or recorded music and films, but now including clothing, cars, fine wine, and whisky, among other products.
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Spike Video Game Awards
The Spike Video Game Awards (also known as the VGAs, and the VGX in its final year) were an annual award show hosted by Spike between 2003 and 2013 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year.
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Standard-definition television
Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.
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Sterilization (microbiology)
Sterilization (or sterilisation) refers to any process that eliminates, removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life and other biological agents (such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, spore forms, prions, unicellular eukaryotic organisms such as Plasmodium, etc.) present in a specified region, such as a surface, a volume of fluid, medication, or in a compound such as biological culture media.
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Steven Blum
Steven Jay Blum (born April 29, 1960) is an American voice actor of anime, animation and video games known for his distinctive deep voice.
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Submachine gun
A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges.
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Suicide mission
A suicide mission is a task which is so dangerous for the people involved that they are not expected to survive.
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Tali'Zorah
Tali'Zorah is a fictional character of the quarian alien race in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who serves as a party member (or "squadmate") in all three games in the Mass Effect trilogy.
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Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.
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TeamXbox
TeamXbox was a gaming media web site dedicated to Microsoft's Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One platforms.
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Terrorism
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.
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The AbleGamers Foundation
The AbleGamers Foundation (also known as The AbleGamers Charity) is a leading nonprofit organization and foundation dedicated to bringing greater accessibility in the video game space so people with disabilities can gain a greater quality of life through developing a rich social life that gaming can bring.
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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.
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The Escapist (magazine)
The Escapist (typeset as the escapist) is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.
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Third-person shooter
Third-person shooter (TPS) is a subgenre of 3D shooter games in which the player character is visible on-screen during gaming, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.
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Trailer (promotion)
A trailer (also known as a preview or coming attraction) is a commercial advertisement for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, the result of creative and technical work.
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Tricia Helfer
Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian actress and former model.
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Tron
Tron is a 1982 American science fiction action-adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.
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Turns, rounds and time-keeping systems in games
In video and other games, the passage of time must be handled in a way that players find fair and easy to understand.
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Unreal Engine
The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal.
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User interface
The user interface (UI), in the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
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VentureBeat
VentureBeat is an American technology website.
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VG247
VG247 (stylized as VG24/7) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.
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Video game
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.
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Video game journalism
Video game journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games.
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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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Voice acting
Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.
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Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.
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Xbox One
Xbox One is a line of eighth generation home video game consoles developed by Microsoft.
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Yvonne Strahovski
Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski (born 30 July 1982), known professionally as Yvonne Strahovski, is an Australian actress.
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1UP.com
1UP.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.
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2009 flu pandemic
The 2009 flu pandemic or swine flu was an influenza pandemic, and the second of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the first of them being the 1918 flu pandemic), albeit in a new version.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_2
