There are roughly a million officially recognized words in the English language, but these 20 crop up everywhere when it comes to naming video games. Is it due to a lack of originality or just a set of universal themes? Flip open your dictionaries and join us for a definitive look at the most overused words in game names.
Mistakes are easy to come by when you\'re the owner of a popular video game franchise. The sheer number of sales Mario\'s face can wield would drive weak men to make greedy and stupid decisions. Every now and then big name franchise duds happen. I\'m sure Miyamoto gives himself a facepalm every time someone mentions \"Hotel Mario\".
His cube was one of the most popular and infuriating toys of all time. Now Professor Ernö Rubik is hoping that the sphere will bring sleepless nights to the world’s obsessive puzzlers.
There are a lot of fans of “Fallout” game across the world. In Russia this electronic entertainment piece is widely recognized too. Sometimes the anticipation to game goes so strong that devoted people are trying to transfer the gameplay to real life, stating that some Russian abandoned locations are a perfect fit for an image of “New California”..
See which platforms, publishers, and game series were most prolific in the decade of Clinton! Unlike the 2000s, a top fifty title only had to sell 3m+ to reach the upper echelons of hits for the era.
In 1983, the arcade smash hit Donkey Kong was ported to the Atari 400/800 home computer systems by Landon Dyer. Mr. Dyer, in between pulling his hair out while working on this game, included what is known as an \"Easter Egg\" in the game\'s code. 26 years later, I am pleased to announce that I have discovered the way to trigger this Easter egg.
For all of you World of Warcraft fans out there, there’s a new Twitter client that is worth checking out. TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for WoW that lets you send and receive Tweets within a game. If you are busy in the middle of a WoW match, you can put Tweets in a queue to send when it’s more convenient.
Your up playing games at four am. The lights are off, and you feel exhausted. You have little to no health, the last time you saved was seven cups of coffee...
Six Flags plans to expand its partnership with Nintendo in order to provide its theme park guests with the opportunity to play the upcoming Wii Sports Resort video game before it’s released to retail stores.
Some games have great moments and some have bad moments...... and some other games have some totally weird moments but in this case.. sexual and perverted moments... You just don\'t expect to see this kind of stuff in video games..