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Rise of the Tomb Raider, the Glossary

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a 2015 action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Microsoft Studios and Square Enix.^[1]

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Crystal Dynamics games
Fiction about post-traumatic stress disorder
Nixxes Software games
Tomb Raider games
Video games based on Slavic mythology
Video games set in Siberia
Video games set in Syria

AAA (video game industry)

In the video game industry, AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games.

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Action-adventure game

An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.

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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1979.

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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Aliens vs.

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Ancient Greek architecture

Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed is a historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced derivatives. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed are stealth video games.

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Assault rifle

An assault rifle is a select fire rifle that uses an intermediate-rifle cartridge and a detachable magazine.

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Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles.

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Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios is an American video game developer and a studio of ZeniMax Media based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Bobby Tahouri

Bobby Tahouri is an American composer, musician, and record producer.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a 2015 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Call of Duty: Black Ops III are 2015 video games and PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced games.

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Camilla Luddington

Camilla Anne Luddington (born 15 December 1983) is a British actress, best known for her role as Dr Josephine "Jo" Wilson in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy.

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Capcom

is a Japanese video game company.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Circana

Circana, formerly known as IRI Worldwide and The NPD Group (previously National Purchase Diary Panel Inc. and NPD Research Inc.) is an American market research and technology company.

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Collectable

A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector.

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Combat knife

A combat knife is a fighting knife designed for military use and primarily intended for hand-to-hand or close combat fighting.

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Combo (video games)

In video games, a combo (short for combination) is a set of actions performed in sequence, usually with strict timing limitations, that yield a significant benefit or advantage.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Cooperative video game

A cooperative video game, often abbreviated as co-op, is a video game that allows players to work together as teammates, usually against one or more non-player character opponents (PvE).

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Crystal Dynamics

Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California.

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Crytek

Crytek GmbH is a German video game developer and software developer based in Frankfurt.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Adventure Game of the Year

The D.I.C.E. Award for Adventure Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Game of the Year

The D.I.C.E. Award for Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Character is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Story

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Story is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986.

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David Pajo

David Pajo (born June 25, 1968) is an American musician.

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Dead Cities

The Dead Cities (المدن الميتة) or Forgotten Cities (المدن المنسية) are a group of 700 abandoned settlements in northwest Syria between Aleppo and Idlib.

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Dead Rising 3

Dead Rising 3 is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Capcom Vancouver and published by Microsoft Studios. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Dead Rising 3 are Microsoft games.

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Destructoid

Destructoid is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Dolby Atmos

Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories.

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Downloadable content

Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher.

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Dulcimer

The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments.

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E3 2014

The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 (E3 2014) was the 20th E3 held.

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Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London.

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Eidos-Montréal

Eidos Interactive Corporation (trade name: Eidos-Montréal) is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal and part of Embracer Group.

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Eighth generation of video game consoles

The eighth generation of video game consoles began in 2012, and consists of four home video game consoles: the Wii U released in 2012, the PlayStation 4 family in 2013, the Xbox One family in 2013, and the Nintendo Switch family in 2017.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Ephesus

Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Experience point

An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game.

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Fallout 4

Fallout 4 is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Fallout 4 are 2015 video games, PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced games, Xbox Cloud Gaming games and Xbox One X enhanced games.

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Feral Interactive

Feral Interactive Limited is a British video games developer and publisher for macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows platforms.

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FIFA 16

FIFA 16 is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label. Rise of the Tomb Raider and FIFA 16 are 2015 video games.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Frame rate

Frame rate, most commonly expressed in or FPS, is typically the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed.

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Future plc

Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.

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Gail Simone

Gail Simone is an American writer best known for her work in comics on DC's Birds of Prey, Batgirl, Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja, and for being the longest running female writer on Wonder Woman to date.

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Game engine

A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs such as a level editor.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and for HBO.

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GameRevolution

GameRevolution (formerly Game-Revolution) is a gaming website created in 1996.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GamesRadar+

GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews.

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GameStop

GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer.

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Global illumination

Global illumination (GI), or indirect illumination, is a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes.

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Glossary of video game terms

This is a non-comprehensive list that includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players.

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Google Stadia

Stadia was a cloud gaming service developed and operated by Google.

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Grinding (video games)

Grinding is a term used in video game culture, referring to the act of repeating an action or set of actions, including non-repetitive tasks to achieve a desired result at a level of certain difficulty, typically for an extended period of time, such as earning experience points, in-game loot and currency or to improve a character's stats.

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Gusli

Gusli (p) is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board.

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Handpan

A handpan from the first production run of Pantheon Steel. Handpan is a term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan.

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Hanna (film)

Hanna is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Joe Wright.

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HTC Vive

HTC Vive is a line of virtual and mixed reality headsets produced by HTC Corporation.

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Ice axe

An ice axe is a multi-purpose hiking and climbing tool used by mountaineers in both the ascent and descent of routes that involve snow, ice, or frozen conditions.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Incendiary device

Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires.

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International Press Academy

The International Press Academy (IPA) is an American association of professional entertainment journalists, representing both domestic and foreign markets in print, television, radio, cable and new media outlets.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Jason Graves

Jason Graves is an American television, film, and video game music composer.

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Jeep

Jeep is an American automobile brand, now owned by multi-national corporation Stellantis.

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Karen O

Karen Lee Orzolek (born November 22, 1978) is a South Korean-born American singer, musician, and songwriter.

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Kitezh

Kitezh (Ки́теж) is a legendary and mythical city beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Lara Croft

Lara Croft is a character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Live streaming

Livestreaming, live-streaming, or live streaming is the streaming of video or audio in real time or near real time.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Luminous paint

Luminous paint (or luminescent paint) is paint that emits visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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is a 2015 action-adventure stealth video game developed and published by Konami. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are 2015 video games and stealth video games.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Metroidvania

Metroidvania is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Microtransaction

Microtransactions (mtx) refers to a business model where users can purchase in-game virtual goods with micropayments.

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Middleware

Middleware is a type of computer software program that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system.

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Motion capture

Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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Nixxes Software

Nixxes Software B.V. is a Dutch video game developer based in Utrecht.

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Oculus Rift

Oculus Rift is a discontinued line of virtual reality headsets developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, a virtual reality company founded by Palmer Luckey that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry.

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Open world

In video games, an open world is a virtual world in which the player can approach objectives freely, as opposed to a world with more linear and structured gameplay.

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Optical disc packaging

Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs.

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Phil Spencer (television personality)

Philip John Edward Spencer (born 11 December 1969) is an English media personality, television presenter and journalist, best known as the co-presenter of Channel 4 property show Location, Location, Location along with its spin-off Relocation, Relocation between 2004 and 2011 alongside Kirstie Allsopp.

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Pistol

A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a barrel with an integral chamber.

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PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation VR

The PlayStation VR (PS VR, known by its code name Project Morpheus during development) is a virtual reality headset developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which was released in October 2016.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Puzzle

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge.

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Quest (video games)

A quest, or mission, is a task in video games that a player-controlled character, party, or group of characters may complete in order to gain a reward.

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Quick time event

In video games, a quick time event (QTE) is a method of context-sensitive gameplay in which the player performs actions on the control device shortly after the appearance of an on-screen instruction/prompt.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II is a 1985 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos from a story by Kevin Jarre, and a screenplay by James Cameron and Sylvester Stallone, who also reprises his role as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo.

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Rendering (computer graphics)

Rendering or image synthesis is the process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from a 2D or 3D model by means of a computer program.

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Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4 is a 2005 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom for the GameCube.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Rhianna Pratchett

Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is an English video game writer and journalist.

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Ryse: Son of Rome

Ryse: Son of Rome is a 2013 action-adventure video game developed by Crytek and published by Microsoft Studios. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Ryse: Son of Rome are Microsoft games.

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Sarah Connor (Terminator)

Sarah Jeanette Connor is a fictional character and the female protagonist of the ''Terminator'' franchise.

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Season pass (video games)

A season pass is a form of video game monetization in which consumers purchase a discounted package for current and future downloadable content (DLC) packs for a video game atop its base cost.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Square Enix's European subsidiary. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider are Crystal Dynamics games, Feral Interactive games, Nixxes Software games, PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced games, Square Enix games, Stadia games, stealth video games, survival video games, Tomb Raider games, Universal Windows Platform apps, video games developed in the Netherlands, Xbox Cloud Gaming games and Xbox One X enhanced games.

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Shotgun

A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas.

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Southwark Street

Southwark Street is a major street in Bankside in the London Borough of Southwark, in London England, just south of the River Thames.

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Square Enix

is a Japanese multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate.

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Stealth game

A stealth game is a type of video game in which the player primarily uses stealth to avoid or overcome opponents. Rise of the Tomb Raider and stealth game are stealth video games.

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Survival game

Survival games are a subgenre of action games which are often set in hostile, intense, open-world environments. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Survival game are survival video games.

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Telegraph Media Group Limited (TMG; previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William Wisher.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.

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The Descent

The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall.

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The Edge (1997 film)

The Edge is a 1997 American survival thriller film written by David Mamet and directed by Lee Tamahori starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.

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The Game Awards

The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry.

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The Game Awards 2015

The Game Awards 2015 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2015.

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The Grey (film)

The Grey is a 2011 survival thriller film co-written, produced and directed by Joe Carnahan, and starring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, and James Badge Dale.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an American media company covering the business of entertainment and media.

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Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City.

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Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider, known as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British video game developer Core Design.

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Tomb Raider (2013 video game)

Tomb Raider is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix's European branch. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider (2013 video game) are Crystal Dynamics games, Feral Interactive games, Nixxes Software games, Square Enix games, Stadia games, stealth video games, survival video games, Tomb Raider games, video games developed in the Netherlands and Xbox Cloud Gaming games.

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Tomb Raider (film)

Tomb Raider is a 2018 action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug, with a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet.

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Tomb Raider III

Tomb Raider III (also known as Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft) is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider III are Tomb Raider games.

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Twitch (service)

Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.

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Uncharted

Uncharted is an action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and developed by Naughty Dog.

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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VentureBeat

VentureBeat is an American technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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VG247

VG247 (previously videogaming247) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.

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Virtual camera system

In 3D video games, a virtual camera system aims at controlling a camera or a set of cameras to display a view of a 3D virtual world.

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Wildlife

Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Writers Guild of America West

The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers.

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WYSIWYG

In computing, WYSIWYG, an acronym for what you see is what you get, refers to software that allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Tomb_Raider

Also known as ROTTR, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration, Tomb Raider (2015 video game), Tomb Raider 10.

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