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Index Open world

An open world in video games is a virtual world in which the player can explore and approach objectives freely, as opposed to a world with more linear gameplay. [1]

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Action-adventure game

The action-adventure video game genre includes video games that combine core elements from the action and adventure genres.

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Adventure (Atari 2600)

Adventure is a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console, released in late –. In the game, the player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle.

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Adventure game

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

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Alternate Reality (series)

Alternate Reality (AR) is an unfinished role-playing video game series that has achieved cult status among many fans of RPGs.

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Amateur flight simulation

Amateur flight simulation refers to the simulation of various aspects of flight or the flight environment for purposes other than flight training or aircraft development.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Analog stick

An analog stick (or analogue stick in UK English), sometimes called a control stick, joystick, or thumbstick is an input device for a controller (often a game controller) that is used for two-dimensional input.

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Ant Attack

Ant Attack is a ZX Spectrum computer game by Sandy White, published by Quicksilva in 1983.

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Arkansas Times

Arkansas Times, a weekly alternative newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a publication that has circulated more than 40 years, originally as a magazine.

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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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Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed is a franchise centered on an action-adventure video game series developed by Ubisoft.

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Assassin's Creed III

Assassin's Creed III is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Microsoft Windows.

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Assassins

Order of Assassins or simply Assassins (أساسين asāsīn, حشاشین Hashâshīn) is the common name used to refer to an Islamic sect formally known as the Nizari Ismailis.

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Back to Skool

Back to Skool is a video game, sequel to the popular Skool Daze, created by David Reidy (whose wife Helen was a school teacher at the time) with graphics by Keith Warrington for the ZX Spectrum and released by Microsphere in 1985.

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Banjo-Kazooie

Banjo-Kazooie is a platform video game developed by Rare and originally released for the Nintendo 64 video game console in 1998.

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Banjo-Tooie

Banjo-Tooie is a platform video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Black & White (video game)

Black & White is a god video game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows in 2001 and by Feral Interactive in 2002 for Mac OS.

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Blaster Master

Blaster Master is a platform and run and gun video game released by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Body Harvest

Body Harvest is an action-adventure video game for the Nintendo 64 video game console, developed by DMA Design.

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Brandon Sheffield

Brandon Sheffield is a video game director and webcomic writer.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Colossal Cave Adventure

Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe.

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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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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Dan Houser

Dan Houser is an English video game producer as well as the co-founder (along with his brother Sam) and vice president of creativity for Rockstar Games.

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David Braben

David John Braben (born 2 January 1964) is a British game developer, game designer, founder and CEO of Frontier Developments plc, co-creator of the Elite series, space trading computer games, first published in 1984.

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Deadly Premonition

Deadly Premonition is a survival horror video game developed by Access Games for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.

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Deep Silver

Deep Silver is the video game publishing division of German multinational corporation Koch Media, based in Planegg, Germany.

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Donkey Kong 64

Donkey Kong 64 is a 1999 adventure platform video game for the Nintendo 64 console, and the first in the Donkey Kong series to feature 3D gameplay.

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Dragon Quest

Dragon Quest, published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of console role-playing video games created by Yuji Horii and his studio Armor Project.

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Driver (video game)

Driver (known as Driver: You Are the Wheelman in North America) is an action driving video game developed by Reflections Interactive and published by GT Interactive Software for the PlayStation.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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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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Elite (video game)

Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984.

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Emergent gameplay

Emergent gameplay refers to complex situations in video games, board games, or table top role-playing games that emerge from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics.

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Engadget

Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics.

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Entropia Universe

Entropia Universe is a massively multiplayer online virtual universe designed by the Swedish software company MindArk, based in Gothenburg.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.

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Eve Online

Eve Online (stylised EVE Online) is a space-based, persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games.

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Fable (2004 video game)

Fable is an action role-playing video game, the first in the ''Fable'' series.

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Fallout (series)

Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games.

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Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Far Cry

Far Cry is a franchise of first-person shooter video games, all of which have been published by Ubisoft.

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First-person shooter

First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Frontier: Elite II

Frontier: Elite II is a space trading and combat simulator video game written by David Braben and published by GameTek in 1993 and released on the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS.

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FS1 Flight Simulator

FS1 Flight Simulator is a 1979 video game published by subLOGIC for Apple II and TRS-80.

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Future plc

Future plc is a British media company founded in 1985.

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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 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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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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GamesTM

GamesTM (styled as gamesTM) is a UK-based, multi-format video games magazine, covering console, handheld, PC and Arcade games.

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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 Age of Piracy

The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation given to usually one or more outbursts of piracy in the maritime history of the early modern period.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly; the later titles of which were created by brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut.

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Grand Theft Auto clone

Grand Theft Auto clone is a controversial subgenre of open world action-adventure video games, characterized by their likeness to the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series in either gameplay, or overall design.

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Grand Theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto III is an action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games.

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GSC Game World

Transavision Ltd., doing business as GSC Game World, is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is best known for his silent comedy films.

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Holy Land

The Holy Land (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקּוֹדֶשׁ, Terra Sancta; Arabic: الأرض المقدسة) is an area roughly located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River.

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Hunter (video game)

Hunter is a 3D open world action-adventure game in which the player navigates around a series of islands.

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Hydlide

is a open world action role-playing video game developed and published by T&E Soft.

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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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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment.

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Invisible wall

An invisible wall is a boundary in a video game that limits where a player character can go in a certain area, but does not appear as a physical obstacle.

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Iron Soldier

is an open-world first-person mech video game developed by Eclipse Software Design and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar in North America and Europe on December 22, 1994 and later released in Japan on March 24, 1995.

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Kill Screen

Kill Screen (stylized as KILL SCREEN) was a print and online magazine founded in 2009 by Jamin Warren and Chris Dahlen and owned by Kill Screen Media, Inc.

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Kilobyte

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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King's Quest VI

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow is an adventure game, first released in 1992 as the sixth installment in the King's Quest series produced by Sierra On-Line.

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Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply as Templars, were a Catholic military order recognised in 1139 by papal bull Omne Datum Optimum of the Holy See.

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Landstalker

is an action-adventure game that was developed by Climax Entertainment originally released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1992 in Japan and 1993 elsewhere.

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Level design

Level design, environment design, or game mapping is a discipline of game development involving creation of video game levels—locales, stages, or missions.

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Life (gaming)

In video gaming, a life is a play-turn that a player-character has, defined as the period between start and end of play.

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List of Terminator video games

This list of Terminator video games includes video games based on the 1984 film The Terminator, a science fiction action film that has been followed by four sequels.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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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: Andromeda

Mass Effect: Andromeda is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are a combination of role-playing video games and massively multiplayer online games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual world.

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Maxis

EA Maxis is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA).

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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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Mercenary (video game)

Mercenary is the first in a series of computer games, published on a number of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, by Novagen Software.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest circulation newspaper, published in tabloid format by DMG Media.

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

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

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Midnight Club: Street Racing

Midnight Club: Street Racing is a racing arcade game, developed by Angel Studios and published by Rockstar Games.

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Midtown Madness

Midtown Madness (also known as Midtown Madness: Chicago Edition) is a racing game developed for Windows by Rockstar San Diego and published by Microsoft Studios.

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Might & Magic X: Legacy

Might & Magic X: Legacy is the latest installment of the Might and Magic role-playing video game series, announced on March 21, 2013, developed by Limbic Entertainment and published by Ubisoft.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game created by Swedish game designer Markus Persson, better known as Notch, who later went on to found Mojang, which has since been the developer and publisher of Minecraft.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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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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No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.

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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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Nonlinear gameplay

A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences.

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Official Xbox Magazine

Official Xbox Magazine (or OXM for short) is a monthly video game magazine which started in November 2001 around the launch of the original Xbox.

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Op-ed

An op-ed (originally short for "opposite the editorial page" although often taken to stand for "opinion editorial") is a written prose piece typically published by a newspaper or magazine which expresses the opinion of a named author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board.

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Outerra

Outerra is a Slovak computer software company best known for its middleware 3D planetary graphics engine, called Outerra engine, in development since 2008.

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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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Pac-Man

, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.

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Paradigm shift

A paradigm shift (also radical theory change), a concept identified by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PCGamesN

PCGamesN is an online video game magazine.

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Persistent world

A persistent world or persistent state world (PSW) is a virtual world which, by the definition by Richard Bartle, "continues to exist and develop internally even when there are no people interacting with it".

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Peter Molyneux

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

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Peter Tieryas

Peter Tieryas (born 1979) is an Asian-American writer.

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Physics engine

A physics engine is computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American video game website that publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos.

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Procedural generation

In computing, procedural generation is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually.

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Programming language

A programming language is a formal language that specifies a set of instructions that can be used to produce various kinds of output.

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Quarantine (video game)

Quarantine is a 1994 racing/first-person shooter video game for MS-DOS and 3DO, created by Imagexcel and published by GameTek.

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Racing video game

The racing video game genre is the genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, water, air or space vehicles.

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Rare (company)

Rare Limited is a British video game developer based in Twycross, England.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Retro Gamer

Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Rock, Paper, Shotgun (also known as RPS) is a UK-based blog operated by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Ltd and authored by Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol, Adam Smith, John Walker, and formerly also Kieron Gillen and Quintin Smith.

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Rockstar North

Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Rockstar San Diego

Rockstar San Diego, Inc. (formerly Angel Studios, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Carlsbad, California.

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Roguelike

Roguelike is a subgenre of role-playing video game characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player character.

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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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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World and published by THQ.

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Sabre Wulf

Sabre Wulf is an action-adventure game by Ultimate Play the Game, initially released for the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1984.

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Saints Row

Saints Row is a series of open world action-adventure video games created by Volition and published by Deep Silver, that tells the story of a gang called the Third Street Saints; the title comes from the name of the district of the gang's home territory.

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Sam Houser

Sam Houser (born 1971) is an English video game producer and developer.

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Scribblenauts

Scribblenauts is an emergent puzzle action video game developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the Nintendo DS.

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Second Life

Second Life is an online virtual world, developed and owned by the San Francisco-based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003.

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Sega

Sega Games Co., Ltd., originally short for Service Games and officially styled as SEGA, is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with offices around the world.

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Shenmue (video game)

Shenmue is an action-adventure game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 1999 in Japan and late 2000 in other territories.

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Sid Meier's Pirates!

Sid Meier’s Pirates! is a video game created by Sid Meier and developed and published by MicroProse in 1987.

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Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and later Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher based in Bellevue, Washington.

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SimCity

SimCity is an open-ended city-building video game series originally designed by Will Wright.

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SimCopter

SimCopter is a 1996 flight simulator video game, developed by Maxis.

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Simulation

Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system.

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Space flight simulation game

A space flight simulation game is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism.

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SpeedTree

SpeedTree is a group of vegetation programming and modeling software products developed and sold by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc.

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Strategy video game

Strategy video game is a video game that focuses on skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory.

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Super Mario 64

Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

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Syndicate (video game)

Syndicate is an isometric real-time tactical and strategic game from Bullfrog Productions created in.

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Tabletop role-playing game

A tabletop role-playing game (or pen-and-paper role-playing game) is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (video game)

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a video game released in the autumn of 1991 by Millennium Interactive.

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The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing open world fantasy video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a fantasy open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 for MS-DOS.

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive division 2K Games.

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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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The Hobbit (1982 video game)

The Hobbit is an illustrated text adventure computer game released in for the ZX Spectrum home computer and based on the book The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda is a high-fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

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The Legend of Zelda (video game)

The Legend of Zelda is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

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The Lords of Midnight

The Lords of Midnight is an epic fantasy video game combining aspects of war games and graphic adventures, written by Mike Singleton and originally released in 1984 for the.

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The Matrix Online

The Matrix Online (abbreviated as MxO) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) initially developed by Monolith Productions and later, a few months after launch, by Sony Online Entertainment.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Portopia Serial Murder Case

, also known as The Portopia Serial Murder Case, is an adventure game designed by Yuji Horii and published by Enix.

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The Seven Cities of Gold (video game)

The Seven Cities of Gold is a strategy video game created by Dan Bunten and Ozark Softscape and published by Electronic Arts in 1984.

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The Sims

The Sims is a life simulation game series that was developed by Maxis and The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts.

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Todd Howard (video game designer)

Todd Howard is an American video game designer, director, and producer.

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Turbo Esprit

Turbo Esprit is a video game published by Durell Software in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC.

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Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Montreuil.

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Ubisoft Reflections

Ubisoft Reflections Limited (formerly Reflections Limited and later Reflections Interactive Limited) is a British video game developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, founded in July 1984 by Martin Edmondson.

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Ultima (series)

Ultima is a series of open world fantasy role-playing video games from Origin Systems, Inc. Ultima was created by Richard Garriott.

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Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness

Ultima, later known as Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness or simply Ultima I, is the first game in the Ultima series of role-playing video games created by Richard Garriott, originally released for the Apple II.

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Valhalla (video game)

Valhalla is a ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 adventure game published in 1983 by Legend.

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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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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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Virtual world

A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment which may be populated by many users who can create a personal avatar, and simultaneously and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities and communicate with others.

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Wasteland (video game)

Wasteland is a science fiction open world role-playing video game developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1988.

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Watch Dogs

Watch Dogs (stylized as WATCH_DOGS) is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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Web browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

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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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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world, sometimes associated with a whole fictional universe.

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XML

In computing, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

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Yakuza (series)

Yakuza, known in Japan as, is an action-adventure beat 'em up video game franchise created, owned and published by Sega.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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1UP.com

1UP.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics or three-dimensional computer graphics, (in contrast to 2D 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 2D images.

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4X

4X is a genre of strategy-based video and board games in which players control an empire and "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_world

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