Formally, a computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players may interact with in order to achieve a goal (or set of goals). A video game is a computer game where a video display is the primary feedback device. Blaufränkisch is a variety of wine grape that is used to produce dry, red wines which are typically low in tannin and may exhibit a pronounced spicy character. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... A virtual world is a computer-simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact with via avatars. ... A player of a game is a participant therein. ... A display device is a device for visual presentation of images (including text) acquired, stored, or transmitted in various forms. ...

However, in common usage "computer game" refers to games played on a personal computer, while "video game" (or "videogame") refers to games played on a video game console. Both "computer games" and "video games" are frequently used as umbrella terms for interactive game software. To avoid ambiguity, this game software is referred to as "computer and video games". The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a video game console. ... Umbrella An umbrella is a device used for temporary shade or shelter from precipitation. ...

• For specific information regarding "computer games", see personal computer game.
• For specific information regarding "video games", see console game.

Game

Game may refer to either the virtual universe and all of its governing rules ("Nethack is a game"), or a particular instance of that game ("my game ended in yet another annoying death", "game over"). Typically, a new instance of a game's universe is created by selection of a "new game" option, while previous instances and player states are retrieved with "load game" or "continue". NetHack is a roguelike computer game. ... The game over screen from the arcade game Snow Bros. ...

A game is composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with. Player input is taken through various types of controls, and output is usually given through a screen and sound devices. Video game consoles usually utilize an input device called a controller, which contains a number of buttons and one or two analog sticks. Games played upon home computers may utilize an keyboard, mouse, or joystick (usually in some combination). The input is proccessed by the game and output is presented, usually on a television or computer monitor. The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... A virtual world is a computer-simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact with via avatars. ... A player of a game is a participant therein. ... An analog stick from the GameCube game controller An analog stick, often mistakenly referred to as a joystick, is an input device for a controller, often a game controller, that is used for two-dimensional input. ... Alphanumeric keyboards include typewriter and computer keyboards. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... Joystick elements: 1. ...

Gameplay

Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. Proper use is coupled with reference to "what the player does" and how well they enjoy that experience.

Main article: Game play Game play (or gameplay) includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. ...

Genres

Games, like most other forms of media, may be categorized into genres based on gameplay, atmosphere, and various other factors. A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ...

Main article: Computer and video game genres This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ...

Gaming platforms

Grand Theft Auto 3 is an example of a game that is popular as a video game as well as a computer game.

Today there are many different devices that games may be played on. Personal computers, consoles, and arcade machines are all common. There is a thin line between games played on the computer and those on the console in terms of genre. GTA 3 Screenshot, stealing a car (PC) Fair use for Grand_Theft_Auto_3 Demonstrates the game and its graphics. ... GTA 3 Screenshot, stealing a car (PC) Fair use for Grand_Theft_Auto_3 Demonstrates the game and its graphics. ... Grand Theft Auto 3, or GTA 3, is a video game developed by DMA Design, published by Rockstar Games in October 2001 for the PlayStation 2 video game console, May 2002 for Windows-based PCs, and in November 2003 for the Xbox video game console. ...

Many games intended for computers are now just as prevalent on consoles, both of which have many of the same selections of titles. This is due to the fact that video game consoles have drastically increased in computing power and capabilities over the last few years to the point that they can handle games that were formerly only playable with computers. With the release of Microsoft's Xbox console, which was based on PC architecture, and which was developed with online gameplay in mind, most major computer game releases coincide with the release of console versions. However, popular titles initially developed for a single platform are often "ported" to another platform. Recent examples include id's Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Windows to Xbox) and Bungie's blockbuster first person shooter, Halo (Developed for the Mac, then bought to be released for Xbox and then (re)-ported to Mac and Windows). The Entertainment Software Association reported that console games outsold computer games in the US by about 380% in 2003 (do note that this number does not represent popularity, and that fees such as those for paid MMORPGs are excluded). Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter game made by Gray Matter Interactive and id Software and published by Activision in 2001. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ... The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ... Bungie Studios is a video game developer founded in 1991 under the name Bungie Software by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Halo 2 Promo Screen The Halo series is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Bungie Studios and published by Microsoft. ... The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the entertainment software industry in the United States. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...

Personal computer games

Personal computer games are most commonly referred to as "computer games". They are played on the personal computer with standard computer interface devices such as the keyboard and mouse. Video feedback is received by the user through the computer screen, sound through speakers or headphones. This computer/video game related article needs cleanup. ... Alphanumeric keyboards include typewriter and computer keyboards. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... A loudspeaker is a device which converts an electrical signal into sound. ... In-ear headphones Headphones (also known as earphones, stereophones, headsets, or the slang term cans) is a transducer that receives an electrical signal from a media player or receiver and uses speakers placed in close proximity to the ears (hence the name earphone) to convert the signal into audible sound...

Console games

Console games are more commonly referred to as "video games". They are played on a computer specially made for game play called a video game console. The player interacts with the game through a controller, a hand-held device with buttons and analog joysticks or pads. Video and sound are received by the user though a television. Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a video game console. ... A game controller is an input device used to control a video game. ...

Arcade games

Arcade games are coin-operated games played on a standalone device originally leased to commercial entertainment venues. These are programmed, equipped, and decorated for a specific game, consisting of a video display, a set of controls, and the coin slot. Controls range from the classic joystick and buttons, to light guns, to pads on the ground that sense pressure. Arcade games that are no longer profitable to lease can be purchased by private individuals, many of whom then explore the game dynamics by altering the programs. Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... A display device is a device for visual presentation of images (including text) acquired, stored, or transmitted in various forms. ... Joystick elements: 1. ... Super Scope, Nintendo´s light gun for the Super Nintendo A light gun is a pointing device for computers and a control device for arcade and video games. ...

Internet games

Internet games are those which require a connection to the Internet to play. Internet gaming was originally an offshoot from personal computer games but may be considered a platform in itself due to its growing scope and the inclusion of internet capabilities in modern consoles. See Internet gaming. Internet games (also known as online games) are games that are played online via the Internet. ...

History

Main article: History of computer and video games Although the history of computer and video games spans almost five decades, computer and video games themselves did not become part of the popular culture until the late 1970s. ...

Popularity

The current industry consensus is that the popularity of computer and video games, as a whole, has been increasing steadily ever since the dropoff of the video game crash of 1983, and that the popularity is continuing to increase. The average age of the video game player is now 29 [1] (http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=8540&filter=myturn), indicating that video games are not largely a diversion for teenagers, as many nongamers assume. Each year, the theory goes, the generation of kids familiar with arcade and console games becomes one year older (and one year larger), and with more disposable income available to the group as a whole, sales should continue to grow, presumably until the entire population has grown up with video games easily available. Screenshot E.T. (Atari 2600 version) The video game crash of 1983 refers to the sudden bankruptcy of a number of companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America in late 1983. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ...

Sales

The three largest markets for computer and video games are the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Other significant markets include Germany, South Korea, France, and Italy. China is not considered a significant market, probably because an estimated 95% of video games sold in the country are pirated. [2] (http://slate.msn.com/id/2116629/) The copyright infringement of software, also called software piracy, refers to several practices when done without the permission of the copyright holder: Creating a copy and selling it. ...

Sales of different types of games vary widely between these markets due to local preferences. Japanese consumers avoid computer games and instead buy video games, with a strong preference for games created in Japan, that run on Japanese consoles. In South Korea, computer games are preferred, especially MMORPG games and real-time strategy games; there are over 20,000 PC bang internet cafes where computer games can be played for an hourly charge. Computer games are popular in Germany and the United States, though video games sales in the US A massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer role-playing game that enables thousands of players to play in an evolving virtual world at the same time over the Internet. ... Dune 2 (1992), an early RTS A real-time strategy (RTS) game is a type of computer strategy game which does not have turns like conventional turn-based strategy video or board games. ... Internet cafes, known as PC Bangs, are a common occurrence throughout the average South Korean city landscape. ...

The NPD Group tracks computer and video game sales in the United States. It reported that as of 2004: 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Console and portable software sales: $6.2 billion, up 8% from 2003 [3] (http://gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=5650)
• Console and portable hardware and accessory sales: $3.7 billion, down 35% from 2003 [4] (http://gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=5650)
• PC game sales: $1.1 billion, down 2% from 2003 [5] (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/28/news_6117438.html)

These figures are sales in dollars, not units; unit shipments for each category were higher than the dollar sales numbers indicate, as more software and hardware was sold at reduced prices compared to 2003. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...

Retail PC game sales have been declining slightly each year since about 1998, but this fact should be taken with a grain of salt: the retail sales numbers from NPD do not include sales from online downloads, nor subscription revenue for games like MMORPGs. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... A massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer role-playing game that enables thousands of players to play in an evolving virtual world at the same time over the Internet. ...

There is a commonly repeated, mistaken belief that video game sales now exceed the revenues of the movie industry. This is untrue; in the United States, video game sales have exceeded the movies' total box office revenue each year since about 1996, but the movie studios trounce the video game publishers when the movies' "ancillary revenue" is counted, meaning sales of DVDs, sales to foreign distributors, and sales to cable TV, satellite TV, and broadcast television networks. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A movie studio is a location, room, building, or group of buildings and/or sound stages, offices and storage facilities, which may include a backlot, where movies are made. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... Satellite television is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km (22,300 miles) above the earths surface. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ...

The game and film industries are also becoming increasingly intertwined, with companies like Sony having significant stakes in both. A large number of summer blockbuster films spawn a companion game, often launching at the same time in order to share the marketing costs. Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (NYSE: SNE) is a consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ...

Computer and video games in the broader culture

Computer games are still big business in South Korea. Developers there boast MMORPGs such as Lineage and Ragnarok Online with millions of subscribers and a third of the world's MMOG revenue. StarCraft gosi (expert players) are celebrities in a game that some have dared to call the country's national sport. The success of computer and online gaming there is usually credited to South Korea's push for broadband Internet connections in the home and earlier bans on Japanese products (these restrictions were removed by the late 1990s). A massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer role-playing game that enables thousands of players to play in an evolving virtual world at the same time over the Internet. ... Lineage is a medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 1998 by the South Korean computer game developer NCsoft. ... Ragnarok Online (RO) is an MMORPG created by Gravity Corporation of South Korea. ... StarCraft StarCraft (SC) is a real-time strategy computer game produced by Blizzard Entertainment in 1998. ... In Korean, gosu (lit. ... This article or section should be merged with National sport A National Pastime is a sport or game that is consider to be a culturally intrinsic part of a country or nation. ... Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ...

Several websites and publications devoted solely to games have been created, including Nintendo Power, Gamepro, Official Playstation Magazine, Gamespot, and IGN. The first cover of Nintendo Power featured a clay sculpture of Mario from . ... Gamepro is a video game magazine in the United States. ... The GameSpot Portal provides access to both textual and multimedia content GameSpot is a website launched in 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. ... IGN is a part-free and part-subscription general gaming website. ...

Video gaming seems to be becoming a bigger part of popular culture. Many T-shirts are available that directly reference video games, such as one with a picture of an NES controller with the text 'Know Your Roots.' Also, video games have also become a major part in cross marketing platforms, such as in Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, where a child can watch the television show, buy the trading cards, and play the various video games available. T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... Pikachu is the most well-known Pokémon. ... Yu-Gi-Oh! manga volume 1 (English version) Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王 yūgiō, Japanese for King of Games) is a popular Japanese anime and manga franchise from Kazuki Takahashi that mainly involves characters who play a card game called Duel Monsters (originally called Magic and Wizards (M&W...

Video game properties have had mixed success when migrating to the movies. One of the first films based on a video game property was The Wizard, which some criticized as a 90-minute ad for Super Mario Brothers 3. In the mid-90s, films for Super Mario Brothers, Street Fighter, Wing Commander and Mortal Kombat were released. Reviews have generally been poor; VHS version box for The Wizard The Wizard is a 1989 movie starring Fred Savage, Christian Slater, and Beau Bridges. ... Various television shows based on Super Mario Bros. ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... Super Mario Bros. ... Street Fighter is a 1994 movie based on the world widely reknowned fighting game Street Fighter II by Capcom (officially, although the characters in are mostly from Super Street Fighter II). ... Wing Commander is a 1999 science fiction film based on the Wing Commander computer game series. ... Mortal Kombat is a 1995 movie directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. ...

Despite the ultimately poor performance of these movies, many studios still want to turn big games into movies, hoping that the popularity of the game will help the movie. However, after the initial bunch, many projects materialized that were never finished, but the success of films like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider has led to more films materializing. Doom, a game which film makers were trying to cross over since the mid 90s is finally going into production. John Woo is also producing a movie on the popular Nintendo game, Metroid. Categories: Movie stubs | Action films | Adventure films | 2001 films | Films based on video games ... Doom1 is a 1993 computer game developed by id Software, and one of the most seminal titles in the first-person shooter genre. ... John Woo (吳宇森; pinyin: Wú Yǔsēn;) (born May 1, 1946 in Guangzhou, China) is a Chinese film director known especially for the ballet-like violence in his movies. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is roughly translated as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands, do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories. ... Metroid title screen This article is about the video game called Metroid, the first game in the Metroid series. ...

However, there is still debate in the movie industry on whether video games can be turned into good, profitable movies. Films like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which has received mixed responses from audiences, with some saying it is a great movie, and others saying it is a very bad movie with excellent CGI, but ultimately flopped in the box office, and Uwe Boll's House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, which both ended up being horrible flops both in fan reactions and box office success and the former ending up on the IMDB's bottom 100 movies, do not, in turn, give much confidence in whether these movies will be handled seriously. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a science fiction movie by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series of video games. ... CGI may refer to any of the following: CGI.pm: a popular Perl module used for dealing with the Common Gateway Interface. ... Uwe Boll (born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) has come into public light as a director of video game based films, such as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, as well as the forthcoming BloodRayne and countless others that he has acquired the rights to. ... Note: For the Russian novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, please see The House of the Dead House of the Dead is a first-person shooter arcade game released in 1998 by Sega, where the player assumes the role of a government agent who must shoot his way through an army... Alone in the Dark is the title of several works of fiction: For the 1982 horror movie featuring Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, see Alone in the Dark (1982 movie) For the original survival horror video game which started the series, see Alone in the Dark (computer game... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ...

Movies have had far more success moving the other direction, onto video games. Most summer blockbuster films now have a simultaneous video game release; some of the most lucrative video games of recent times are based on movies, such as Electronic Arts' Lord of the Rings series of games, and Activision's two Spider-Man movie games. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is a leading video game developer and publisher. ... Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. ... Activision, Inc. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ...

Also, video games have found themselves on MTV2, in a popular show called Video Mod, where characters from popular video games perform songs from hit artists, such as characters from The Sims 2 performing the song "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains Of Wayne. MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to basic cable lineups across the nation. ... The Sims 2 is a computer game from Maxis and is the sequel to the popular game The Sims. ... Fountains of Wayne is an American indie rock band, formed in 1995. ...

On the internet, gaming has also become a popular subject of many webcomics. Currently there are two varieties. The first one is the Sprite Comic, such as 8 Bit Theatre, in which the artist uses sprites from a video game to tell stories. Sometimes these are original stories, but are often parodies of the game in which the sprite came from. The other is a more traditional comic strip, containing original art, like Penny Arcade. Here, the storylines or jokes revolve around current events in video gaming. The success of Penny Arcade has attracted many people in the industry, including Ubi Soft. Other parodies have come in the form of amateur videos, such as those of Mega 64. Web comics are comics that are available on the web. ... The term Sprite has several meanings: A sprite is a class of preternatural legendary creatures. ... Three panels from a strip that ran on January 20, 2004 8-Bit Theater is a sprite comic created by Brian Clevinger based on the game Final Fantasy by Square. ... The Penny Arcade Crew Penny Arcade is a web comic written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. ... Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer headquarted in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. ... Mega 64 is a low-budget television program in the style of Trigger Happy TV, centered around video games. ...

In Germany, the TV channel NBC Europe broadcasts a show called GIGA, which turned more and more into a video and computer game show. In the show, new games are presented and reviewed. Lately, the show featured the esports scene a lot, by introducing professional players to the audience and broadcasting live competition matches. The overall term for computer games as a sport is Electronic Sports, or eSports. ...

Development

Main article: Game development This article is about computer and video game development, and does not deal with the development of other forms of game, such as board games and card games Neverwinter Nights, a popular modern computer role-playing game, features a powerful 3D graphics engine. ...

Video games are made by developers, who can be individuals, but are almost always a team consisting of designers, graphic designers and other artists, programmers, sound designers, musicians, and other technicians. Most video game console development teams number anywhere from 20 to 50 people, with some teams exceeding 100. The average team size as well as the average development time of a game have grown along with the size of the industry and the technology involved in creating games. This has led to regular occurrences of missed deadlines and unfinished products, such as Duke Nukem Forever. See also: video game industry practices. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... John Carmack is one of the most widely recognized and influential game programmers. ... This is an article about the film crew member known as a sound designer. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... Duke Nukem Forever is a yet-to-be-released first-person shooter video game being developed by 3D Realms. ... Video game industry practices are similar to those of other entertainment industries (e. ...

Game modifications

Main article: Mod (computer gaming) Mod or modification is a term generally applied to computer games, especially first-person shooters and real-time strategy games. ...

Games running on a PC are often designed with end-user modifications in mind, and this consequently allows modern computer games to be modified by gamers without much difficulty. These mods can add an extra dimension of replayability and interest. The Internet provided an inexpensive medium to promote and distribute mods, and they became an increasingly important factor in the commercial success of some games. Developers such as id, Valve, and Epic provide extensive tools and documentation to assist mod makers, leveraging the potential success brought in by a popular mod like Counter-Strike. Mod or modification is a term generally applied to computer games, especially first-person shooters and real-time strategy games. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Valve Software is a Bellevue, Washington-based video game developer made famous by its first product, Half-Life released in November 1998. ... Epic Games, formerly known as Epic MegaGames and also known as Epic, is a computer game development company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ... Counter-Strike (CS) is a popular team-based mod of Valves first-person shooter Half-Life. ...

Recently, computer games have also been used as a digital-art medium. See artistic computer game modification. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Naming

Gamers use several umbrella terms for console, PC, arcade, handheld, and similar games since they do not agree on the best name. For many, either "computer game" or "video game" describes these games as a whole. Other commonly used terms include "entertainment software", "electronic game", "software game", and "videogame" (as one word). Umbrella An umbrella is a device used for temporary shade or shelter from precipitation. ...

Computer and video games may be considered a subset of interactive media, which includes virtual reality, flight and engineering simulation, multimedia and the World Wide Web. New media usually refers to a group of relatively recent mass media based on new information technology. ... Virtual reality (abbreviated VR) describes an environment that is simulated by a computer. ... A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an airplane as closely and realistically as possible. ... Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ...

See also

• List of gaming topics

This is a comprehensive hierarchical list linking to (all) articles related to computer and video games. ...

References

• Lieu, Tina (August 1997). "Where have all the PC games gone?" (http://www.cjmag.co.jp/magazine/issues/1997/aug97/0897pcgames.html). Computing Japan.
• Costikyan, Greg (1994) "I Have No Words & I Must Design" (http://www.costik.com/nowords.html)
• Crawford, Chris (1982) "The Art of Computer Game Design" (http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html)

External links

• GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com): gaming reviews, news, downloads, and forums
• GameRankings (http://www.gamerankings.com): a site with game rankings based on the average mark from indexed reviews
• Universal Videogame List (http://www.uvlist.com): a comprehensive video game database
• MobyGames (http://www.MobyGames.com): a comprehensive computer and video game database

More external links may be found through the list of video game websites This is a list of notable websites that are devoted to video games. ...