Video Games

Games on consoles

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A 2012 video game in the Skylanders series, and a direct sequel to the 2011 game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.

What is skylanders Giants

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a first-person shooter video game, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released on November 13, 2012 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows and on November 18, 2012 in North America, November 30, 2012 in Europe and Australia for the Wii U.

What is Call of Duty Black Ops 2

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A first-person shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. The game was released in most territories worldwide on November 6, 2012. The story begins four years after the ending of the 3 game; the player assumes the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier.

What is Halo 4

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While playing as the Assassin characters, the games are generally presented as third-person in an open world, focusing on stealth and Free-running. The games use a mission structure to follow the main story, generally assigning the player to complete an assassination of public figureheads or a covert mission. Alternatively, several side missions are available, such as mapping out the expansive cities from a high perch followed by performing a "leap of faith" into a haystack below, collecting treasures hidden across the cities, exploring ruins for relics, building a brotherhood of assassins to perform other tasks, or funding the rebuilding of a city through purchasing and upgrading of shops and other features.

What is Assassins Creed

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An action role-playing first-person shooter video game that was developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. It is the sequel to the one made in 2009 and was released for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. As with the first game, players complete a campaign consisting of central quests and optional side missions as one of five vault hunters on the planet Pandora. Key gameplay features from the original game, such as online collaborative campaign gameplay; randomly generated loot, such as weapons and shields; and character-building elements commonly found in role-playing video games

What is Borderlands 2

tablet games

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A 2010 physics-based puzzle video game for a number of platforms and devices. It is about a little green monster named Om Nom and you have to feed him candy

What is Cut the Rope

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An endless action video game developed by the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios. The player takes on the role of an explorer attempting to steal an idol from a temple and being chased by "demonic monkeys".

What is Temple Run

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A video game developed by Halfbrick Studios in Brisbane, Australia. It was released April 21, 2010 for iPod Touch and iPhone devices, July 12, 2010 for the iPad, September 17, 2010 for Android OS devices. The player slices fruit with a blade controlled via a touch pad. As the fruit is thrown onto the screen, the player swipes their finger across the screen to create a slicing motion, attempting to slice the fruit in half.

What is Fruit Ninja

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A video game developed and published by Lima Sky for Windows Phone, iOS, BlackBerry, Android, Java Mobile , and Nokia Symbian and soon on the Xbox 360 for the Kinect platform. The aim is to guide a four-legged creature called "The Doodler" up a never-ending series of platforms without falling. The left side of the playing field is connected with the right side. For devices with an accelerometer, players tilt the device from side to side to move the Doodler in the desired direction.

What is Doodle Jump

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The initial version of the game was released on iOS in December 2009. In the game, players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, with the intent of destroying all the pigs on the playing field. As players advance through the game, new types of birds become available, some with special abilities that can be activated by the player.

What is Angry Birds

Computer games

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A massively multiplayer online game (MMO) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, created by New Horizon Interactive. Players use cartoon penguin-avatars and play in a winter-set virtual world.

What is Club Penguin

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A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994.

What is World of Warcarft

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A series of tower defense-style games under the Bloons brand produced and created by Ninja Kiwi. It was initially developed as a browser game built upon the Adobe Flash platform, but in later games was made available as an iOS app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and for devices operating on Google's Android OS.

What is Bloons Tower Defense

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A tower defense action video game developed and originally published by PopCap Games for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game involves a homeowner using many varieties of plants to repel an army of zombies from "eating their brains". It was first released on May 5, 2009, and made available on Steam on the same day. A version for iOS was released in February 2010, and an HD version for the iPad.

What is Plant Vs Zombies

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A sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. It was publicly released for the PC on May 17, 2009, as a developmental alpha version and, after gradual updates, was published as a full release version on November 18, 2011.

What is Minecraft

Arcade games

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An arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, in October 1980 and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980.

What is Pac Man

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An arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. a two-dimensional fixed shooter game in which the player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at descending aliens. The aim is to defeat five rows of eleven aliens—some versions feature different numbers—that move horizontally back and forth across the screen as they advance towards the bottom of the screen.

What is Space Invaders

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An arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan in 1982 for Namco Galaga hardware. It was later published outside of Japan by Atari. A popular game based on a simple concept, it was also released as a video game on many consoles.to eliminate underground-dwelling monsters by inflating them until they pop, or by dropping rocks on them. There are two kinds of enemies in the game: Pookas, round red monsters who wear yellow goggles, and Fygars, green dragons who can breathe fire.

What is Dig Dug

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a run and gun video game developed by Nazca Corporation and published by SNK. It was originally released in 1996 for the Neo-Geo MVS arcade platform. The game is widely known for its sense of humor, fluid hand-drawn animation, and fast paced two-player action.

What is Metal Slug

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Commonly abbreviated as SF or スト, is a series of fighting games developed in Japan. The game's playable characters originate from around the world, each with his or her own unique fighting style. Since Capcom released the first arcade game in August 1987, the series has had total home software sales of 33 million units, and arcade cabinet sales of over 500,000 units generating more than $1 billion in revenue, qualifying it for the list of bestselling video game franchises.

What is Street Fighters

History of Games

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The first home 'console' system was developed by Ralph Baer and his associates. Development began in 1966 and a working prototype was completed by 1968 for demonstration to various potential licensees, including GE, Sylvania, RCA, Philco, and Sears, with Magnavox eventually licensing the technology to produce the world's first home video game console.[

What is The Brown Box

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In 1989, Nintendo released its first handheld console since the ill-fated Microvision ten years before. The design team headed by Gunpei Yokoi had also been responsible for the Game & Watch systems. Included with the system was Tetris, a popular puzzle game.

What is Game Boy

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On November 4, 2010, Microsoft released the first noncontroller console in North America, and later in other parts of the world, as a peripheral for the Xbox 360; it was packaged with the console as well.

What is Kinect

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This game was programmed by Steve Russell and first released in February 1962. The game ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer, and consisted of two spaceships that maneuvered around a star that pulled at the ships with its gravity.

What is Spacewar

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An electronic tennis game that is unquestionably a forerunner of the modern video game. The man who made the game was named William Higinbotham.Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. It was the first video game in the world.

What is Tennis for Two