A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard...
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A gaming computer, also known as a gaming PC, is a specialized personal computer designed for playing PC games at high standards. They typically differ...
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personal computer game, or abbreviated PC game, also known as a computer game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term PC game has been...
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2015-03-19. "Reviews Explained: The Game Categories". TV Gamer. London: 76. March 1983. Arsenault, Dominic (2009). "Video Game Genre, Evolution and Innovation"...
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Role-playing video games, also known as CRPG (computer/console role-playing games), comprise a broad video game genre generally defined by a detailed story...
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first issue of Computer Gaming World in The Space Gamer No. 48. Webster commented that "I strongly recommend this magazine to computer gamers, and just one...
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Artificial intelligence in video games (redirect from Computer game AI)
term game AI is used to refer to a broad set of algorithms that also include techniques from control theory, robotics, computer graphics and computer science...
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malware". PC Gamer. Retrieved 16 May 2015. National Crime Agency (2017). "Pathways Into Cyber Crime". Scacchi, Walt (3 May 2010). "Computer game mods, modders...
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"PC Gamer Top 40: The Best Games of All Time". PC Gamer US. No. 3. August 1994. pp. 32–42. "The PC Gamer Top 50 PC Games of All Time". PC Gamer UK. No...
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Atari's arcade game Space Invaders has taken in $2 billion, with net receipts of $450 million. "The Definitive Space Invaders". Retro Gamer. No. 41. Imagine...
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18 August 2003. Retrieved 22 January 2014. PC Gamer Online | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (PC Gamer January 1996). Koziara, Andrew (2016-05-20). "'I...
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History of video games (redirect from Timeline of computer and video games)
History of Peter Jennings". Computer History Museum. February 1, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2023. "The making of Zork". Retro Gamer. No. 77. Imagine Publishing...
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Michelle (2017). "What is a True Gamer? The Male Gamer Stereotype and the Marginalization of Women in Video Game Culture". Sex Roles. 76 (7–8). ISSN 0360-0025...
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Original Game". In 1985 the game was awarded the "Best Game Overall" for that year by readers of Crash magazine, and "Game of the Year" by Computer Gamer. In...
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Argus Press (redirect from Computer Gamer)
1987 – October 1991), Your Commodore (October 1984 – October 1991), Computer Gamer (April 1985 – June 1987), and ZX Computing (1982–1987). The business...
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game just made horror fans crave it even more." Phantasmagoria earned an Editor's Choice Award from PC Gamer, and a Golden Triad Award from Computer Game...
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computer game in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A computer game is an electronic game, used as a synonym for a video game in some regions. Computer...
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not found in the main game, is a free must-play for any Fallout fan". PC Gamer. Retrieved May 10, 2024. "Now Shipping". PC Gamer. October 10, 1997. Archived...
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The game received critical acclaim. Computer Gaming World criticized the brief documentation and short length of gameplay, but praised the game's graphics...
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more complex, computers and consoles became more powerful, the job of the game designer became separate from the lead programmer. Soon, game complexity demanded...
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The Oregon Trail (series) (redirect from Oregon Trail (computer game))
The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger...
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2002). "The Eighth Annual PC Gamer Awards". PC Gamer US. Vol. 9, no. 3. Future US. pp. 32, 33, 36, 36, 37, 40, 42. "GAMES Game Awards". Games Magazine. Archived...
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PC Gamer Games of the Year". PC Gamer UK. Vol. 2, no. 1. Future. December 1994. ISSN 1351-3540. "Announcing The New Premier Awards". Computer Gaming World...
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Marathon was one of the earliest computer games to employ free look and give the player the ability to look up or down. The game interface includes an overhead...
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4.2 operating system (4.2BSD). Commercial ports of the game for a range of personal computers were made by Toy, Wichman, and Jon Lane under the company...
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a team of worms against other teams of worms that are controlled by a computer or human opponent. The aim is to use various weapons to kill the worms...
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"Sega has quietly become one of the world's best PC strategy game companies". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 4 August 2016. Loban, Rhett (14 September...
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List of video games featuring Batman (redirect from Batman (computer game))
Pocket Gamer. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2010-11-28. Jon Mundy (2010-05-04). "Batman: Guardian of Gotham". Pocket Gamer. Archived...
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arcade games. The core design of Gauntlet comes from 1983 game Dandy for the Atari 8-bit computers, which resulted in a threat of legal action. It also has...
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Daggerfall. In 1998, PC Gamer declared it the 42nd-best computer game ever released, and the editors called it "a nearly flawless gaming experience". Akira...
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