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Introduction
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large computers to small handheld devices. Specialized video games such as arcade games, while previously common, have gradually declined in use.
The input device used to manipulate video games is called a game controller, and varies across platforms. For example, a dedicated console controller might consist of only a button and a joystick. Another may feature a dozen buttons and one or more joysticks. Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button. Many modern computer games allow, or even require, the player to use a keyboard and mouse simultaneously.
Video games typically also use other ways of providing interaction and information to the player. Audio is almost universal, using sound reproduction devices, such as speakers and headphones. But other feedback may come via haptic peripherals, such as vibration force feedback.
Game Consoles And Portables
Wii
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PlayStation 3 40GB
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Xbox 360 20GB [Old Version]
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PlayStation Portable Core (PSP 1000)
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Nintendo DS Lite Onyx Black
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Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto IV
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Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories
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Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas V2.0
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Grand Theft Auto III
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Playstation Games
Iron Man
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Speed Racer: The Videogame
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Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition
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Army of Two
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The Orange Box
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Wii Games
No More Heroes
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Wii Fit
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Speed Racer: The Videogame
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Iron Man
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Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition
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More Wii Games
Okami
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
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Boom Blox
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Super Mario Galaxy
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Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel
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Halo 3 Games
Halo 3
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Halo 3: The Official Strategy Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)
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Halo 3 Limited Edition
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Halo: Combat Evolved
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Halo 2
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World Of Warcraft
World of Warcraft Battle Chest
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World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
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World of Warcraft 60 Day Pre-Paid Time Card
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition
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Dungeons And Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons Tactics
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Baldur's Gate 2: Ultimate Collection (Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal)
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Neverwinter Nights 2 Expansion Pack: Mask of the Betrayer
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Neverwinter Nights 2
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Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
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Tom Clancy Games
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Limited Edition
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ComputerWorld
- Well-honed Attacks Sneak Under the Radar
- Samples of documents used in carefully prepared targeted attacks make clear that while a suspicious eye is a great security tool, some especially dangerous attacks might slide right by you.
- Wanna be @the_real_shaq? That'll be $50,000...
- If you're a nobody who wants to be somebody in the online Web world, you don't need friends--just a thriving bank account. That's where uSocial comes into play. The company converts your cash into background support on the Web's top social sites: You can buy Diggs, votes on Yahoo Buzz, eyeballs for StumbleUpon ... and now, Twitter followers.
- iPhone 3GS heats up, DOJ takes aim at Google
- The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.
- San Francisco misses the NextBus
- I live in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. If you've visited San Francisco you may know it as the Italian district, where Joe DiMaggio learned to play baseball and where beat writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg forged their countercultural vision of the American dream. If you live here, though, you also know that it's the worst place in the city to try to find a parking spot.
- iPhone 3GS Gets Jailbroken, Hack Available Online
- The first jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS is now available. The tool, called purplera1n, will only allow the installation of unofficial third-party applications, but will not unlock the iPhone 3GS.
Slashdot
- Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web"
- cin62 writes "The number of Internet scammers offering fake versions of the anti-swine flu drug Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, reports CNN. Since the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was declared a global pandemic last month, there has been an increase in the number of Web sites and junk emails offering Tamiflu for sale. 'Every Web site that used to sell Viagra is now selling Tamiflu. We are pretty sure that the same people are making the Tamiflu as are making the Viagra,' said Director of Policy for the UK's Royal Pharmaceutical Society." This news fits in nicely with a report Wired ran a couple weeks ago about the hysteria behind H1N1. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released
- jadoon88 writes to share a series of old Atari 7800 games that have been unofficially open sourced. "Remember Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari's 7800 series was still around. Since the era of those consoles is over, and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire the state-of-the-art (because this is what it was back then). During those times, nobody would have imagined in their wildest dreams the games that Atari's developers floated into the gaming thirsty market and instantly swept across continental boundaries. But things changed soon after that and a company once regarded as one of the most successful gaming console manufacturers and developers faded away in the pages of our technology's hall-of-fame." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- How To Get Your Program Professionally Marketed?
- one-man orchestra writes "I'm the sole programmer of a small, multi-platform, commercial audio program (a spectrogram editor). After over 6 months on the market, I realized that the program would never just sell itself, and that I need some real marketing done for it. Being a one-man orchestra is becoming increasingly difficult; I only can devote so much time to marketing, my skills in that department are lacking, and I'd much rather spend more time coding. Despite my lackluster part-time marketing effort, I still manage to make a modest living out of the sales. My logical assumption is that with someone competent taking care of that part, revenue could greatly scale up. But what's the right way to go about doing this? What type of people/company do I need to contact? What to expect? What to look out for?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students
- Hugh Pickens writes "Retired University of Tennessee Professor Dr. John Reece Roth has been sentenced to four years in prison after he allowed a Chinese graduate student to see sensitive information on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones. In 2004, the company Roth helped found, Atmospheric Glow Technologies, won a US Air Force contract to develop a plasma actuator that could help reduce drag on the wings of drones, such as the ones the military uses. Under the contract, for which Roth was reportedly paid $6,000, he was prohibited from sharing sensitive data with foreign nationals. Despite warnings from his university's Export Control Officer, in 2006, Roth took a laptop containing sensitive plans with him on a lecture tour in China and also allowed graduate students Xin Dai of China and Sirous Nourgostar of Iran to work on the project. 'The illegal export of restricted military data represents a serious threat to national security,' says David Kris of the US Department of Justice. 'We know that foreign governments are actively seeking this information for their own military development. Today's sentence should serve as a warning to anyone who knowingly discloses restricted military data in violation of our laws.' During his trial, Roth testified that he was unaware that hiring the graduate students was a violation of his contract. 'This whole thing has not helped me, it has not helped the university,' said Roth. 'And it has probably not helped this country, either.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Copyright Should Encourage Derivative Works
- Techdirt has an interesting look at copyright and the idea that an author is the originator of a new work. Instead, the piece suggests that all works are in some way based on the works of others (even our own copyright law), and the system should be much more encouraging of "remixing" work into new, unique experiences. "Friedman also points back to another recent post where he discusses the nature of content creation, based on a blog post by Rene Kita. In it, she points out that remixing and creating through collaboration and building on the works of others has always been the norm. It's what we do naturally. It's only in the last century or so, when we reached a means of recording, manufacturing and selling music — which was limited to just those with the machinery and capital to do it, that copyright was suddenly brought out to 'protect' such things." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Guestbook
Standup105 wrote...
Hey! New to the group so I just figured that I'd introduce myself. My name is Standup and what I do is I review World of Warcraft guides online. These guides are all available to download, and some of the splash pages can be bothersome at times. So what I am doing is cutting through all the hard work for the user, and giving comprehensive reviews based on the features, good and bad aspects of the guides, prices, and links directly to the site.
My hope is that by the time that you're done reading my lens about a particular guide, you won't need to wade through a large splash page filled with advertisements, but instead, will allow you to made an educated decision on which to download before you even load up the publishers page! I do the research so you don't have to!
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Posted March 20, 2009
diggyisking wrote...
no personal opinion on games????
for console it would be tekken or soul caliber and on pc something like starcraft and counterstrike:)
Posted January 02, 2009
AndrewGreen wrote...
Not a bad selection. Hopefully you will add to it. Thanks.
Posted December 14, 2008
LouieWpHs04 wrote...
Selections could have been a bit better, and the detail could have extended past what a Video game is but it's ok for the most part! G'job! =o
annd hopefully you plan on adding to it.. at some point. :)
Posted October 22, 2008
tdove wrote...
Nice selection of some great games. Thanks for joining G Rated Lense Factory!
Posted June 23, 2008
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