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unusual facts about video gaming



Arsys Software

The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

Chapter 7, entitled Beauty, Desire, Situation Dire, features an Ancient Egyptian pyramid theme with Astarte as the end-level boss and was released early October 2010.

Dear Esther

The original rendition of Dear Esther was one of several mods developed by The Chinese Room while the studio was still a research project at the University of Portsmouth.

Dolby Pro Logic

Pro Logic II system also features a mode designed specifically for video gaming, and it is frequently used in game titles for Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube and Wii as an alternative to digital surround formats such as Dolby Digital, or DTS.

Fallout: Project Brazil

Fallout: Project Brazil is a fan-made modification made by Brandan Lee and several members of the Fallout Modding Community, and is an unofficial prequel to the action role-playing video game Fallout: New Vegas.

GIBS

Gib, a term in first person shooter games for bits of a character left after a kill

Inverse Phase

The soundtrack to the 2010 video game Super Meat Boy features his song "Boss Burger N' Chips", which is a remix of the first and second level boss themes.

Jaana Pelkonen

She became famous in Finland as the host of the video gaming show Tilt in 1997–2005 and the youth program Jyrki in 1998.

Kaci Aitchison

In August 2013, Kaci served as back-stage host for The International, an annual Dota 2 tournament hosted by Valve Corporation, providing fan and player interaction outside of the main event without prior knowledge of the game.

Mario Sports Mix

It is largely identical to the previous tournaments, with the exception that all four sports are played in the tournament, and that the final boss is different, being Behemoth King instead of Behemoth.

Monster Rancher EVO

Exploration, similar to that of Monster Rancher 4, involves the character going out into the field with his or her monster(s), and defeating stray monsters and a chapter boss to gain anima points, used to gain new monster skills or perform 'union attacks'.

Nekketsu Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes

The player's home court is at Niagara Falls and players have their equipment improved after they win a game in "story mode." Passwords allow games to be stopped and resumed in a different gaming session.

Slender Man

In 2011, Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the sandbox indie game Minecraft, added a new hostile mob to the game, which he named the "Enderman" when multiple users on Reddit and Google+ commented on the similarity to the Slender Man.

Smosh Games

Smosh Games, sometimes written as SmoshGames, is a YouTube video gaming channel created by Smosh, a company producing internet content, primarily on YouTube.

UnrealScript

By making the process of modifying the game easier, UnrealScript helped enable the growth of a large modding community around Unreal.

Wicker man

In the 2013 Xbox One game, Ryse: Son of Rome, a wicker man is used in one of the game's chapters as a setting for a boss fight.

Wikipad

The Wikipad 7 is an enterprise and video gaming tablet, running Android (4.2.2 ) produced by the independent Los Angeles-based company, Wikipad, Inc. Handheld prototypes were first shown at CES 2012 in January with the final product hitting shops in the UK accompanied by a well received TV in campaign December 2013 initiating its global roll out.


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Alan J. Gow

He retained and licensed the use of the TOCA name for interactive video gaming, thus the TOCA Touring Car series has firmly established itself as one of the biggest selling and most popular games of its type in the world.

Australian Gamer

Outside of Australian Gamer, Yug is one of the founding creators of The Mana Bar; an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge in Brisbane, Australia.

ESEA

E-Sports Entertainment Association, founder of ESEA League: an Electronic sports competitive video gaming community

GBAtemp

GBAtemp is an international video gaming community centered around a discussion forum focusing on Nintendo and other handheld devices and consoles, such as the Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and Wii.

Twitch gameplay

Soon after turn-based strategy games were introduced, real-time strategy games were introduced to the video gaming market, beginning with Herzog Zwei and then Dune II and eventually leading to popular titles such as Command & Conquer, Warcraft, and StarCraft.