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Counter-Strike Major Championships: History and Background

Counter-Strike Major Championships, commonly known as the Majors, are Counter-Strike (CS) esports tournaments sponsored by Valve, the game's developer.

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Simone Giertz: Biography and Background

Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz ( YETCH; Swedish: [ˈjæʈːʂ] ; born November 1, 1990) is a US-based Swedish inventor and YouTuber who creates robot and maker videos.

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Video game modding: History and Key Facts

Video game modding (from "modifying") is the process of player and fan-authored alteration of a video game and is a sub-discipline of general modding.

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Charlie Bit My Finger: History and Key Facts

"Charlie bit my finger – again!", more simply known as "Charlie Bit My Finger" or "Charlie Bit Me", is a 2007 viral video famous for being the most-viewed YouTube video from 2009 to 2012.

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Overwatch League: History and Background

The Overwatch League (OWL) was a professional esports league for the video game Overwatch and its sequel Overwatch 2, produced by its developer, Blizzard Entertainment.

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Video Game Design: Design: An Open Learning Guide

Creating a video game is no simple task, it is the step that requires the most creative effort and artistic vision. This chapter will help you get through it. The most important task in any

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Nintendo: History and Key Facts

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

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Sega: History and Key Facts

Sega Corporation is a Japanese video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Tokyo.

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Retro gaming: History and Key Facts

Retro gaming, also known as classic gaming and old school gaming, is the playing and collection of personal computers, consoles, and video games from earlier decades.

Dungeons & Dragons game in progress. Miniatures from Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game and others on Master Maze scenery by Dwarven Forge. Around the dungeon can be seen many multi-sided dice, a character sheet (bottom left) and a D&D manual (top right). Note that the circular template at the bottom is not from Dungeo

Dungeons & Dragons: History and Key Facts

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Catan: History and Key Facts

Catan (), previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber.

The Nintendo Game Boy, a handheld gaming console released in 1989. The relatively simple and monochrome Game Boy faced off against multiple handhelds and dominated the portable gaming market for almost a decade. This system has a 4.19 MHz CPU, a 4-shade LCD and ran off of 4 AA batteries. It was a very long-running syst

Game Boy: History and Key Facts

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

Transparent version of NES console

Nintendo Entertainment System: History and Key Facts

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Level (video games): History and Key Facts

In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, mission, stage, course, zone, area, or round, depending on context) is any virtual space available to the player character during the course of

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Video game crash of 1983: History and Key Facts

The video game crash of 1983 was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States.

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Golden age of arcade video games: History and Key Facts

The golden age of arcade video games was the period of rapid growth, technological development, and cultural influence of arcade video games from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

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Valve Corporation: History and Key Facts

Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, hardware, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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Naughty Dog: History and Key Facts

Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California.

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PlayStation (console): History and Key Facts

The PlayStation (codenamed PSX, abbreviated as PS, and retronymically PS1 or PS one) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System: History and Key Facts

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES or SNES) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Game mechanics: History and Key Facts

In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics define how a game works for players.

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Magic: The Gathering: History and Key Facts

Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a collectible, tabletop, and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield.

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Warhammer 40,000: History and Key Facts

Warhammer 40,000 (also known as WH40K or 40K), is a British miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop.

An Atari 2600 four-switch "wood veneer" version, dating from 1980-1982. Shown with standard joystick.

Atari 2600: History and Key Facts

The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc.

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History of Nintendo: History and Key Facts

The history of Nintendo, a Japanese video game company based in Kyoto, starts in 1889 when Fusajiro Yamauchi founded "Yamauchi Nintendo", a producer of hanafuda playing cards.

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Nonlinear gameplay: History and Key Facts

A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences.

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FromSoftware: History and Key Facts

FromSoftware, Inc.

Two iterations of the PlayStation 2 console, the fat and the slimline. On the left is a model SCPH-30001 with a vertical stand. On the right is a slimline model SCPH-70001 with a vertical stand, a DualShock2 and 8MB memory card plugged in. This is the PNG version.

PlayStation 2: History and Key Facts

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

The Xbox, a sixth-generation gaming console made by Microsoft that was first released in 2001. The Xbox was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and was followed by the Xbox 360 in 2005. The console is shown here with the Duke controller, the original pack-in controller, which was later replaced a sm

Xbox (console): History and Key Facts

The Xbox is a home video game console developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Pandemic (board game): History and Key Facts

Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008.

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Video game design: History and Key Facts

Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production

A Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer introduced in 1982 by Commodore International. Its low retail price and easy availability led to the system becoming the market leader for three years. It remains the best-selling single personal computer model of all time.

Commodore 64: History and Key Facts

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las

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ZX Spectrum: History and Key Facts

The ZX Spectrum (UK: ) is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research.

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CD Projekt Red: History and Key Facts

CD Projekt Red S.A.

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Wii: History and Key Facts

The Wii ( WEE) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

An original Nintendo DS "Fat" in blue.

Nintendo DS: History and Key Facts

The Nintendo DS is a foldable handheld game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide between 2004 and 2005.

Chess pieces – left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight and bishop.

Chess: History and Key Facts

Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

My floor goban with a game in progress.

Go (game): History and Key Facts

Go, weiqi, or baduk is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent.

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Video game art: History and Key Facts

Video game art is a form of computer art that uses video games as an artistic medium.

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Video Game Design: Programming: An Open Learning Guide

Programming is the way you put your concept in practice, how you build your game. There are a wide variety of programming languages. These languages will be covered in more detail later on.