98 relations: African Americans, Arcade game, Bartle taxonomy of player types, Bisexuality, Brendan Keogh, Call of Duty, Card game, Casual game, China, Cinephilia, Community, Competition, Consumer, Counter-Strike, Culture war, Digital badge, Disruptor Beam, Doom (1993 video game), Enneagram of Personality, Entertainment Consumers Association, ESports, Exploration, Feminism, Fighting game, Final Boss (Halo team), Gambling, Gameplay, Gamergate controversy, Gamers Outreach Foundation, Gay, Glitch, Going Cardboard, Graeme Kirkpatrick, Halo 2, Hashtag, Hispanic, Institut national de l'audiovisuel, Interactive movie, International Game Developers Association, Internet forum, Jesse Schell, Jon Radoff, Joystiq, Leigh Alexander (journalist), Lesbian, Level (video gaming), LGBT, Major League Gaming, MDA framework, Minecraft, ..., Money, Multiplayer video game, Newbie, Nintendogs, Outline of video games, PC game, Performativity, Pew Research Center, Player (game), Porting, Prize, Professional, Progressivism, Pseudonym, Quarter (United States coin), Reappropriation, Retro Gamer, Retrogaming, Salary, Satoru Iwata, Schadenfreude, Scott Kim, Sexism in video gaming, Silliwood, Smartphone, Social club, Socialization, South Korea, Sponsor (commercial), Target market, Taxonomy (general), Television, The Escapist (magazine), The Sims, Transgender, Tsquared, Twitch.tv, Twitter, United States, Video game, Video game addiction, Video game console emulator, Video gaming clan, Virtual community, Washington Blade, White people, Wii U, YouTube. Expand index (48 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.
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Bartle taxonomy of player types
The Bartle taxonomy of player types is a classification of video game players (gamers) based on a 1996 paper by Richard Bartle according to their preferred actions within the game.
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Bisexuality
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.
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Brendan Keogh
Brendan Keogh (born 1970) is an Irish former hurler who played as a left wing-forward for the Galway senior team.
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Call of Duty
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game franchise.
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Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
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Casual game
A casual game is a video game targeted at or used by casual gamers.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Cinephilia
Cinephilia (also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film criticism.
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Community
A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
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Competition
Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities, organisms, animals, individuals, economic groups or social groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for prestige, recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit.
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Consumer
A consumer is a person or organization that use economic services or commodities.
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Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike (CS) is a series of multiplayer first-person shooter video games, in which teams of terrorists battle to perpetrate an act of terror (bombing, hostage-taking) and counter-terrorists try to prevent it (bomb defusal, hostage rescue).
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Culture war
The culture war or culture conflict adopts different meanings depending on the time and place where it is used (as it relates to conflicts relevant to a specific area and era).
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Digital badge
Digital badges are a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be earned in various learning environments.
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Disruptor Beam
Disruptor Beam, Inc. is a developer of mobile and social game products based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Doom (1993 video game)
Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents and stylized as DooM in other media) is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software.
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Enneagram of Personality
The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram (from the Greek words and), is a model of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types.
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Entertainment Consumers Association
Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) is a United States-based non-partisan, non-government, non-profit organization dedicated to the interests of individuals who play computer and video games in the United States and Canada.
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ESports
eSports (also known as electronic sports, esports, e-sports, competitive (video) gaming, professional (video) gaming, or pro gaming) are a form of competition using video games.
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Exploration
Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.
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Fighting game
A fighting game is a video game genre based around interpersonal combat between a limited amount of characters, in which they fight until they defeat their opponents or the timer expires.
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Final Boss (Halo team)
Final Boss (known earlier as Shoot to Kill and Team 3D) was a professional esports team that competed in Halo competitions sponsored by Major League Gaming (MLG) and other tournaments.
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Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.
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Gameplay
Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.
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Gamergate controversy
The Gamergate controversy stemmed from a harassment campaign conducted primarily through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate.
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Gamers Outreach Foundation
Gamers Outreach Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to use interactive entertainment in ways that improve the lives of others.
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Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
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Glitch
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system, such as a transient fault that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot.
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Going Cardboard
Going Cardboard: A Board Game Documentary is a 2012 documentary about the American adoption of German-style board games, and includes coverage of the 2009 board game event Spiel in Essen, Germany, as well as interviews with many prominent game designers.
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Graeme Kirkpatrick
Graeme Kirkpatrick (born 17 September 1963) is a scholar who writes about technology, computer games and aesthetics.
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Halo 2
Halo 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie.
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Hashtag
A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging which makes it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific theme or content; it allows easy, informal markup of folk taxonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language.
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Hispanic
The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.
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Institut national de l'audiovisuel
The Institut national de l'audiovisuel (or INA, French for National Audiovisual Institute) is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives.
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Interactive movie
An interactive movie, also known as a movie game, is a video game that presents the gameplay in a cinematic, scripted manner, often through the use of full-motion video of either animated or live-action footage.
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International Game Developers Association
International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the professional association for over 12,000 video and computer game developers worldwide.
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Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
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Jesse Schell
Jesse N. Schell (Born on June 13, 1970) is an American video game designer, author, CEO of Schell Games and a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), a joint master's program between the College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Jon Radoff
Jon Radoff (born September 17, 1972) is an American entrepreneur, author and game designer.
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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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Leigh Alexander (journalist)
Leigh Alexander (born October 22, 1981) is an American author and journalist.
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Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman.
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Level (video gaming)
A level, map, area, stage, world, track, board, floor, zone, phase, mission, or course in a video game is the total space available to the player during the course of completing a discrete objective.
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LGBT
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
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Major League Gaming
Major League Gaming Corp. (MLG) is a professional eSports organization.
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MDA framework
In game design the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework is a tool used to analyze games.
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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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Money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context.
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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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Newbie
Newbie, newb, noob, or n00b is a slang term for a novice or newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in a profession or activity.
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Nintendogs
is a pet simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console.
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Outline of video games
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to video games: Video game – an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
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PC game
PC games, also known as computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine.
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Performativity
Performativity is language which effects change in the world and functions as a form of social action.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American fact tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Player (game)
A player of a game is a participant therein.
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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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Prize
A prize is an award to be given to a person, a group of people like a sports team, or organization to recognise and reward actions or achievements.
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Professional
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity.
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Progressivism
Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).
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Quarter (United States coin)
The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a United States coin worth 25 cents, one-fourth of a dollar.
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Reappropriation
In sociology and cultural studies, reappropriation or reclamation is the cultural process by which a group reclaims terms or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
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Retro Gamer
Retro Gamer is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering retro video games.
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Retrogaming
Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming and old school gaming, is the playing or collecting of older personal computer, console, and arcade video games in contemporary times.
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Salary
A salary is a form of payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract.
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Satoru Iwata
was a Japanese video game programmer and businessman who was the fourth president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo.
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Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude ('harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.
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Scott Kim
Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author of Korean descent.
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Sexism in video gaming
Sexism in video gaming is prejudiced behavior or discrimination based on sex or gender as experienced by people who play and create video games, primarily women.
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Silliwood
Silliwood (Silicon Valley and Hollywood) is the term given to various California companies involved with creating CD-ROM computer games based on Hollywood movies, most of which did not appeal to serious gamers in the mid-1990s.
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Smartphone
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.
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Social club
A social club may be a group of people or the place where they meet, generally formed around a common interest, occupation, or activity.
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Socialization
In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.
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Sponsor (commercial)
Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.
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Target market
A target market is a group of customers within a business's serviceable available market that the business has decided to aim its marketing efforts towards.
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Taxonomy (general)
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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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 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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Transgender
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
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Tsquared
Tom Taylor (born October 15, 1987 in Syracuse, New York), known by the gamertag Tsquared, is a former professional gamer and captain of one of the most successful teams in Major League Gaming (MLG) history, Str8 Rippin, and was also the coach of Status Quo during the 2010 National Championships in Dallas where he helped them place 2nd behind Final Boss.
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Twitch.tv
Twitch is a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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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 addiction
Video game addiction (VGA) has been suggested by some in the medical community as a distinct behavioral addiction characterized by excessive or compulsive use of computer games or video games that interferes with a person's everyday life.
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Video game console emulator
A video game console emulator is a type of emulator that allows a computing device to emulate a video game console's hardware and play its games on the emulating platform.
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Video gaming clan
In computer and video gaming, a clan, community, guild or faction is an organized group of players that regularly play together in one or more multiplayer games, but is focused on a particular game.
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Virtual community
A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.
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Washington Blade
The Washington Blade is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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White people
White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.
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Wii U
The Wii U is a home video game console developed by Nintendo, and the successor to the Wii.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamer