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3DO

3DO Rating System, a rating system created by The 3DO Company and used on games released for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer in the USA and Canada

America's Army: True Soldiers

Multiplayer features scenarios, including reaching extraction points, defending objectives, and eliminating the enemy's VIP and simultaneously protecting their own.

Barbie: Super Model

Barbie: Super Model is a one or two player multiplayer educational action video game that allows the player to play as Barbie.

Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome

What was criticized was the lack of new multiplayer modes, lack of new weapons, (having only the Breda 30 for the Italians and the Sten Mk.II for the British and French), and no stability increases.

Bee Cave, Texas

Tie-in literature for the class-based multiplayer shooter video game Team Fortress 2 lists the Engineer, an amiable Texan in a hard hat and with a penchant for building murderous contraptions, as a native of Bee Cave.

Bernardo de Gálvez

In the Ubisoft video game Assassin's Creed III, a fictionalized representation of Gálvez is available to download as a playable character for the game's multiplayer mode.

Call of Duty: Experience 2011

Robert Bowling and Michael Condrey revealed several key highlights about the multiplayer in the upcoming game.

CHPP

Certified Hattrick Product Providers, functions that work with the Hattrick massively multiplayer online football management game

Early access

DayZ, a multiplayer zombie-based game, gained more than 400,000 sales within one week of being on Early Access.

Exit Games

Exit Games is a German venture capital financed company, founded in 2003, with offices in Hamburg and Portland offering a multiplayer engine for cross-platform realtime multiplayer games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) on various technological platforms, including mobile, PC and consoles.

Game Developers Conference

It was won by Jason Rohrer who designed a one-player at a time multiplayer game named Chain World contained entirely on a USB flash drive.

GemStone

GemStone IV (or GemStone III), an online multiplayer game by Simutronics Corporation

Golmud

The Golmud Railway (countryside near Golmud) is featured as an online multiplayer map in the video game Battlefield 4.

Guitar battle

A multiplayer game mode introduced in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, called Battle Mode, is based around the guitar battle concept, only the players may use special power-up items to force each other to fail.

Hot Wheels Velocity X

One review by Chris Roper gave it a 4.7 out of 10, criticizing the game's sound design, controls, and the unstable framerate, but praising the multiplayer mode of the GameCube version and the voice overs during the FMV cutscenes.

Hypersociability

The principle of hypersociability is most widely used in Japanese pop culture, examples of which include Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, which used multiplayer games separate from the original media.

Ironclaw Online

Ironclaw Online (often abbreviated as "IC" or "ICO") is an online multiplayer storytelling anthropomorphic fantasy produced by Skotos.

J. Todd Coleman

March 2011, named the #1 Most Influential person In the Massively Multiplayer Online game industry by Beckett Massive Gamer Magazine, a Beckett Media publication.

KATSU

In 2013 12 Oz prophet reported that KATSU was constructing his tags in the online multiplayer game Minecraft.

Kelton Flinn

Air Warrior (1986) — This game, offered on GEnie, is a key milestone in the history of computer games because it was the first commercial multiplayer online game to add graphics, displaying a 3D airplane dogfight environment.

Knights of the Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in December 2011.

Last Man Standing Coop

The Last Man Standing Coop (LMS) Mod is a Doom 3 single player and multiplayer modification.

Lies Greed Misery

It was used in the promotion of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and got its premier in the multiplayer trailer for the game.

Logfile

Internet Relay Chat (IRC), instant messaging (IM) programs, peer-to-peer file sharing clients with chat functions, and multiplayer games (especially MMORPGs) commonly have the ability to automatically log (i.e. save) textual communication, both public (IRC channel/IM conference/MMO public/party chat messages) and private chat messages between users.

Lost Planet 2

In addition, if the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo reached one million downloads by midnight Pacific Time on May 5, Capcom will donate $50,000 to Music for Relief, a charity founded by Linkin Park members to provide aid to victims of natural disasters.

Magnetica

The WiiWare version of Magnetica supports up to four players simultaneously in either co-operative or competitive multiplayer modes, in addition to the ability to use the player's own Miis in the game.

Masthead

Masthead Studios, an eastern-European games developer specializing in massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Matmata, Tunisia

One of Call of Duty 2s missions and multiplayer maps takes place in Matmâta as part of North African Campaign.

MGO

Metal Gear Online, a PlayStation 3 online multiplayer spin-off of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

MIDI Maze

The game constructed multiplayer networks using the MIDI interface.

Midtown Madness 2

Multiplayer clients use Midtown Madness 2's built-in DirectPlay support to launch and manage multiplayer sessions,the most notable ones are GameRanger and Voobly.

Noclip mode

In the games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, and Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Xbox 360 and more recently the PlayStation 3, players could copy their game save data to their computer and modify it so they could use noclip in online multiplayer matches.

Ocker

In the popular multiplayer video game Team Fortress 2, the Sniper is described as a "rugged and ready crack shot ocker from the Australian outback".

Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe

Ooga Booga

It has a distinct Polynesian style and tone, and has many multiplayer islands and characters which can be unlocked.

Pig Rush

Other features include themes, leaderboards and online multiplayer via Game Center.

R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate

The game also supports multiplayer combat via Wi-Fi and also has a co-operative two-player mode available through ad hoc connection and game sharing modes.

Richard Rashid

While at Rochester, he and Gene Ball wrote what is probably one of the earliest networked multiplayer computer games, Alto Trek, for Xerox Alto computers.

Siemens SX1

The three games which were bundled with the phone were Mozzies, which was awarded the title of best mobile game in 2003, Typegun, which was a game made for acquainting users to the keypad layout, and Sitris, a Tetris version with multiplayer support (via Bluetooth).

Space Invaders Extreme

An HD version of the game has been remastered by Backbone Entertainment for Xbox Live Arcade with new four-player multiplayer modes and visualizer backgrounds by Jeff Minter, it was released on May 6, 2009 as a wrap-up to the 30th anniversary.

Spil Games

The games on Spil Group websites are mostly free browser-based Flash casual games, both single and multiplayer.

Star Fleet Battle Force

Star Fleet Battle Force is a card-based starship combat game system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It allows fast-paced multiplayer combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the Federation, the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the Gorn Confederation, Kzinti Hegemony, Tholian Holdfast and Orion Pirates.

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

It is the fourth and final release in the Super Mario Advance series, and was first revealed at Nintendo's conference at the E3 2003 convention, containing several enhancements, including the addition of Mario and Luigi's voices by Charles Martinet, the ability to scan e-Cards into Nintendo's e-Reader to add certain content, and a multiplayer mode based on the original arcade game Mario Bros.

Supreme Ruler

The design of Supreme Ruler was influenced by earlier nation-state simulations such as Sumer, though the concept is taken further with the addition of multiplayer, military battles, and a more sophisticated design.

The New Tetris

The New Tetris also features a multiplayer mode with up to four players and an ethnically themed electronic dance music soundtrack by Neil D. Voss, who also composed the award-winning music for Tetrisphere.

Toujane

The village was a location where several missions in the single and multiplayer mode of the 2005 video game Call of Duty 2 take place, most notably one of the missions where the player has to control a Sdkfz 222 armored car.

Virtual airline

This technology includes online databasing and multiplayer networks such as the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM), International Virtual Aviation Organization (IVAO), SkySimFlight or FSLive.

Warfare Incorporated

It was one of the first applications for PDA to feature Bluetooth and Wi-Fi multiplayer support.


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