Video games and Linux, the Glossary

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1. 823 relations: A Tale in the Desert, A/UX, Abuse (video game), ACCU (organisation), Achron, Ada (programming language), Adobe Flash, Adventure Game Studio, Age of Empires, Agenda VR3, Airline Tycoon, Aleph number, Alien Arena, Aliens Versus Predator (1999 video game), Allegro (software library), Amanita Design, AMD Software, America's Army, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Among the Sleep, AnandTech, Ancient Domains of Mystery, And Yet It Moves, Android (operating system), Angband (video game), Ankh (video game), Ankh: Heart of Osiris, Another World (video game), API, Apple Public Source License, Aquaria (video game), Arcen Games, Ars Technica, Arx Fatalis, Aspyr, AssaultCube, Association for Computing Machinery, Asteroids (video game), Astro Battle, AstroMenace, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari Falcon, Atari ST, Atari TT030, Audiokinetic Wwise, Australia, AUUG, Avadon: The Black Fortress, Backgammon, ... Expand index (773 more) »

2. Video game development software for Linux
3. Video game platforms
4. Video gaming

A Tale in the Desert

A Tale in the Desert (ATITD) is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) set in Ancient Egypt.

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A/UX

A/UX is a Unix-based operating system from Apple Computer for Macintosh computers, integrated with System 7's graphical interface and application compatibility.

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Abuse (video game)

Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Electronic Arts in North America and Origin Systems in Europe.

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ACCU (organisation)

ACCU, previously known as the Association of C and C++ Users, is a non-profit user group of people interested in software development, dedicated to raising the standard of computer programming.

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Achron

Achron is a real-time strategy computer game.

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Ada (programming language)

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages.

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Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.

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Adventure Game Studio

Adventure Game Studio (AGS) is an open source development tool primarily used to create graphic adventure games.

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Age of Empires

Age of Empires is a series of historical real-time strategy video games, originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios.

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Agenda VR3

The Agenda VR3 was the name of the first "pure Linux" Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), released in May 2001 by Agenda Computing, Inc. of Irvine, California.

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Airline Tycoon

Airline Tycoon is a business simulation game by Thomas Holz and Robert Kleinert, in which the player must successfully manage an airline.

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Aleph number

In mathematics, particularly in set theory, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets that can be well-ordered.

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Alien Arena

Alien Arena (initially CodeRED: Alien Arena) is an open-source, stand-alone first-person shooter video game.

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Aliens Versus Predator (1999 video game)

Aliens Versus Predator is a 1999 science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Fox Interactive for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Mac OS X. It is a part of the Alien and Predator crossover franchise, Alien vs. Predator.

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Allegro (software library)

Allegro is a software library for video game development. Video games and Linux and Allegro (software library) are video game development software for Linux.

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Amanita Design

Amanita Design is a Czech independent video game developing company founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský and headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.

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AMD Software

Unified-Linux 24.10.3 / | latest release date.

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America's Army

America's Army was a series of first-person shooter video games developed and published by the U.S. Army, intended to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 2010 survival horror adventure game developed and published by Frictional Games.

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Among the Sleep

Among the Sleep is a first-person survival horror action-adventure video game developed by Norwegian developer Krillbite Studio for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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AnandTech

AnandTech is an online computer hardware magazine owned by Future plc.

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Ancient Domains of Mystery

Ancient Domains of Mystery is a roguelike video game designed and developed by Thomas Biskup and released in 1994.

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And Yet It Moves

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platform game developed by independent developer Broken Rules.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Angband (video game)

Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike video game derived from Umoria.

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Ankh (video game)

Ankh is a graphic adventure game by German developer Deck13 and published by bhv Software in 2005.

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Ankh: Heart of Osiris

Ankh: Heart of Osiris (Ankh: Herz des Osiris) is the second game in the Ankh series of video games.

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Another World (video game)

Another World is a cinematic platform action-adventure game designed by Éric Chahi and published by Delphine Software in November 1991.

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

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Apple Public Source License

The Apple Public Source License (APSL) is the open-source and free software license under which Apple's Darwin operating system was released in 2000.

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Aquaria (video game)

Aquaria is a side-scrolling action-adventure game designed by Alec Holowka and Derek Yu, who published the game in 2007 as an independent game company Bit Blot.

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Arcen Games

Arcen Games is a small video game company founded in 2009 by Chris McElligott Park.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Arx Fatalis

Arx Fatalis is a 2002 action role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios and released for Windows and Xbox.

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Aspyr

Aspyr Media, Inc. (pronounced "aspire") is an American video game developer and publisher founded by Michael Rogers and Ted Staloch in Austin, Texas.

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AssaultCube

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is an open source first-person shooter video game, based on Cube and uses the same engine, the Cube Engine.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

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Asteroids (video game)

Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers.

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Astro Battle

Astro Battle is a science fiction multidirectional shooter developed and published by American studio Lava Lord Games for Microsoft Windows and Linux.

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AstroMenace

AstroMenace is a 3D scrolling shooter, developed and published by Russian independent game developer Viewizard.

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Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 is a discontinued home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

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Atari 8-bit computers

The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.

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Atari Falcon

The Atari Falcon030 (usually shortened to Atari Falcon), released in 1992, is the final personal computer from Atari Corporation.

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Atari ST

Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers.

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Atari TT030

The Atari TT030 is a member of the Atari ST family, released in 1990.

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Audiokinetic Wwise

Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users and under license for commercial video game developers. Video games and Linux and Audiokinetic Wwise are video game development software for Linux.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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AUUG

AUUG was an Australian association and users' group.

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Avadon: The Black Fortress

Avadon: The Black Fortress is a single-player role-playing video game developed by Spiderweb Software.

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Backgammon

Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards.

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Ballistics (video game)

Ballistics is a futuristic racing computer game developed by Grin and published by Xicat Interactive in 2001.

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Bash (Unix shell)

Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.

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Basilisk II

Basilisk II is an emulator which emulates Apple Macintosh computers based on the Motorola 68000 series.

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Bastion (video game)

Bastion is an action role-playing video game developed by independent developer Supergiant Games and originally published in 2011 by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Battle Isle

Battle Isle is a series of turn-based strategy/tactics video games developed in the 1990s by Blue Byte and released for Amiga and MS-DOS and later for Microsoft Windows.

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Benchmark (computing)

In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it.

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Beneath a Steel Sky

Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 point-and-click adventure game developed by British developer Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers.

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Berkeley Software Design

Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI or, later, BSDi), was a corporation which developed, sold licenses for, and supported BSD/OS (originally known as BSD/386), a commercial and partially proprietary variant of the BSD Unix operating system for PC compatible (and later, other) computer systems.

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Berkeley Software Distribution

The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Big Robot

Big Robot is a UK company that specialises in developing computer games, registered in Halstead, England.

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Bionic (software)

Bionic is an implementation of the C standard library, developed by Google for its Android operating system.

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BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game in the ''BioShock'' series, developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K.

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BioWare

BioWare is a Canadian video game developer based in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Black Shades

Black Shades is a free and open-source video game developed by Wolfire Games.

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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (also known as Blake Stone 3-D) is a first-person shooter for DOS created by JAM Productions and published by Apogee Software on December 5, 1993.

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Blake Stone: Planet Strike

Blake Stone: Planet Strike is a first-person shooter video game, the sequel to Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, made by JAM Productions and released for DOS on October 28, 1994, by Apogee Software.

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Blendo Games

Blendo Games is an American independent video game development company based in Culver City, California.

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Blizzard Albany

Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions, Inc.) is an American video game developer and a studio of Blizzard Entertainment based in Albany, New York.

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Bloober Team

Bloober Team S.A. is a Polish video game developer based in Kraków.

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Blood (video game)

Blood is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive and developed using Ken Silverman’s Build engine.

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Bomberman

is a video game franchise created by Shinichi Nakamoto and Shigeki Fujiwara, originally developed by Hudson Soft and currently owned by Konami.

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Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2 is a 2012 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K.

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Braid (video game)

Braid is an indie puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None.

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Brain Fuck Scheduler

The Brain Fuck Scheduler (BFS) is a process scheduler designed for the Linux kernel in August 2009 based on earliest eligible virtual deadline first scheduling (EEVDF), as an alternative to the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) and the O(1) scheduler.

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Brütal Legend

Brütal Legend is an action-adventure video game with real-time strategy game elements created by Double Fine and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Breakout (video game)

Breakout is an arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and released on May 13, 1976.

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Broken Sword

Broken Sword is a series of adventure games.

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Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse is the fifth title in the Broken Sword series of adventure video games, developed and published by Revolution Software, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation Vita (via the PlayStation Network), Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.

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Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror

Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Revolution Software for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation.

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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (also known as Circle of Blood in the United States) is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game developed by Revolution Software.

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Browser game

A browser game is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser.

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BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.

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Business Wire

Business Wire is an American company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.

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BZFlag

BZFlag (an abbreviation for Battle Zone capture the Flag) is a free and open-source, multiplayer online, tank game.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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C Sharp (programming language)

C# is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms.

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C standard library

The C standard library or libc is the standard library for the C programming language, as specified in the ISO C standard.

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C++

C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.

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C4 Engine

The C4 Engine is a proprietary computer game engine developed by Terathon Software that is used to create 3D games and other types of interactive virtual simulations for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Windows (XP and later), Mac OS X (versions 10.9 and later), Linux, and iOS. Video games and Linux and c4 Engine are video game development software for Linux.

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Caldera (company)

Caldera, Inc.

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Call to Power II

Call to Power II is a PC turn-based strategy game released by Activision as a sequel to Civilization: Call to Power, which itself was named after the Civilization series by Sid Meier; this game could not have "Civilization" in its title because the license to the Civilization name was lost.

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Canonical (company)

Canonical Ltd. is a privately held computer software company based in London, England.

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Capsized (video game)

Capsized is a science fiction-themed platform game with run and gun mechanics.

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Catacomb 3-D

Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is a first-person shooter video game, the third in the Catacomb series, the first of which to feature 3D computer graphics.

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Catacomb Abyss

Catacomb Abyss (also known as The Catacomb Abyss or The Catacomb Abyss 3-D) is a fantasy themed first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Softdisk and released in November 1992 for DOS.

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Cave Story

Cave Story is a 2004 Metroidvania platform-adventure video game for Microsoft Windows.

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Cedega (software)

Cedega (formerly known as WineX) was the proprietary fork by TransGaming Technologies of Wine, from the last version of Wine under the X11 license before switching to GNU LGPL.

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Celso Riva

Celso Riva (born c. 1974) is an Italian independent video game designer of several critically acclaimed games, including The Goalkeeper, Universal Boxing Manager, Magic Stones, the Heileen and Vera Blanc series, Bionic Heart, and the Loren the Amazon Princess.

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Champions of Regnum

Champions of Regnum (previously known as Regnum Online) is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Nimble Giant Entertainment, a game development studio located in Argentina.

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Chase (video game)

Chase is a turn-based computer game in which players are tasked with escaping from robots programmed to pursue and kill them.

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Chicken Invaders

Chicken Invaders is a series of shoot 'em up video games created by Greek indie developer Konstantinos Prouskas.

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Chromebook

Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a line of laptop and tablet computers that runs using ChromeOS, an operating system developed by Google.

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ChromeOS

ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux distribution developed and designed by Google.

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Chromium B.S.U.

Chromium B.S.U. is an arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter available on Windows, iPhone, PSP, Mac, AmigaOS 4, Linux and numerous other UNIX-like operating systems.

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Civilization II

Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy video game in the ''Civilization'' series, developed and published by MicroProse.

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Civilization V

Sid Meier's Civilization V is a 4X video game in the ''Civilization'' series developed by Firaxis Games.

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Civilization: Call to Power

Civilization: Call to Power is a turn-based strategy game developed by Activision for Microsoft Windows as an attempt to capitalize on the success of the Civilization computer games by Sid Meier.

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ClanLib

ClanLib is a video game SDK, supporting Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, with partial support for mobile platforms. Video games and Linux and ClanLib are video game development software for Linux.

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Clickteam

Clickteam is a French software development company based in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine.

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Clonk

Clonk is a single player and multiplayer video game series.

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Cloud gaming

Cloud gaming, sometimes called gaming on demand or game streaming, is a type of online gaming that runs video games on remote servers and streams the game's output (video, sound, etc) directly to a user's device, or more colloquially, playing a game remotely from a cloud. Video games and Linux and cloud gaming are video game platforms and video gaming.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Code::Blocks

Code::Blocks is a free, open-source, cross-platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++.

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CodeWeavers

CodeWeavers is a software company that focuses on Wine development and sells a proprietary version of Wine called CrossOver for running Windows applications on macOS, ChromeOS and Linux.

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Cogs (video game)

Cogs is a puzzle video game released in 2009 by Lazy 8 Studios, originally released as a Microsoft Windows title, but receiving subsequent ports to other operating systems, mobile platforms, and game consoles.

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Coherent (operating system)

Coherent is a clone of the Unix operating system for IBM PC compatibles and other microcomputers, developed and sold by the now-defunct Mark Williams Company (MWC).

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Cold War (video game)

Cold War is a 2005 stealth video game developed by the Czech developer Mindware Studios, and published by DreamCatcher Games (Runesoft for Mac OS X and Linux Game Publishing for Linux).

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.

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Common Lisp

Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S2018) (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)).

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Compatibility layer

In software engineering, a compatibility layer is an interface that allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system.

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Conquest of Elysium II

Conquest of Elysium II ("II" denotes the version 2.0, the first Windows compatible version) is the title of a computer game produced by the Illwinter Game Design.

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Construct (game engine)

Construct is an HTML5-based 2D video game engine developed by Scirra Ltd. Video games and Linux and Construct (game engine) are video game development software for Linux.

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Conway's Game of Life

The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.

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Core OpenGL

Core OpenGL, or CGL, is Apple Inc.'s Macintosh Quartz windowing system interface to the OS X implementation of the OpenGL specification.

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Corel Linux

Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that began beta testing on September 21, 1999 and was released to the public on November 15, 1999.

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Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education

The Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education (CLASSE) is a particle accelerator facility located in Wilson Laboratory on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY.

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Cortex Command

Cortex Command is a two-dimensional side-scrolling action game developed by Swedish studio Data Realms since 2001.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a 2012 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment.

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Counter-Strike: Source

Counter-Strike: Source is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and Turtle Rock Studios.

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Crack dot Com

Crack dot Com was a computer game development company co-founded by ex-id Software programmer Dave Taylor, and Jonathan Clark.

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Cross-platform software

In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms.

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Crossfire (1992 video game)

Crossfire is a free and open source software cross-platform multiplayer online role-playing video game.

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CrossOver (software)

CrossOver is a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer available for Linux, macOS, and ChromeOS.

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Croteam

Croteam is a Croatian video game developer based in Zagreb.

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CryEngine

CryEngine (stylized as CRYENGINE) is a game engine designed by the German game developer Crytek.

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Crytek

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

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Cube (video game)

Cube is a free and open-source first-person shooter video game.

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Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Cube 2: Sauerbraten (German for "sour roast", also known as Sauer) is a first-person shooter released for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X using OpenGL and SDL.

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Curses (programming library)

curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications.

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Cute Knight

Cute Knight is a casual life simulation role-playing video game with many possible endings and careers featuring a single female character.

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Cygnus Solutions

Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software.

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Cygwin

Cygwin is a free and open-source Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

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D (programming language)

D, also known as dlang, is a multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright at Digital Mars and released in 2001.

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Daisuke Amaya

, also known by his pseudonym Pixel, is a Japanese indie game developer.

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Dance Dance Revolution

(DDR) is a music video game series produced by Konami.

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Danger from the Deep

Danger from the Deep, often abbreviated as DftD, is an open-source World War II German U-boat simulation for PC, striving for technical and historical accuracy.

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Darwin (operating system)

Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS.

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Darwinia (video game)

Darwinia is a 2005 real-time tactics and real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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Date Warp

Date Warp is a science fiction visual novel video game developed by Spiky Caterpillar and Hanako Games, and published by Hanako Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux in 2010.

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Dave Taylor (game programmer)

Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.

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Day of the Tentacle

Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts.

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Dead Island

Dead Island is a 2011 action role-playing game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver.

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Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.

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Debugger

A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program).

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DEC Alpha

Alpha (original name Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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DEFCON (video game)

DEFCON (stylised as DEFCOИ and sometimes subtitled Everybody Dies in the North American version and Global Thermonuclear War in the European version) is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion Software.

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Descent (video game)

Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS.

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Descent 3

Descent 3 (stylized as Descent³) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Outrage Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment.

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Descent II

Descent II is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions.

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Desura

Desura was a digital distribution platform for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X platforms.

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Devastation (video game)

Devastation is a first-person shooter video game by American developer Digitalo Studios, released in 2003.

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Devolver Digital

Devolver Digital, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the publishing of indie games.

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DICE (company)

EA Digital Illusions CE AB (trade name: DICE) is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.

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Digger (video game)

Digger is a maze game released by Canadian developer Windmill Software as a self-booting disk for IBM PC compatibles.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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A digital media player (also known as a streaming device or streaming box) is a type of consumer electronics device designed for the storage, playback, or viewing of digital media content.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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Digital: A Love Story

Digital: A Love Story is a visual novel by video game designer Christine Love, released for free in February 2010.

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Direct3D

Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows.

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DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

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Dofus

Dofus is a tactical turn-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Ankama Games, a French video game manufacturer.

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Dolphin (emulator)

Dolphin is a free and open-source video game console emulator for GameCube and Wii that runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S. It had its inaugural release in 2003 as freeware for Windows.

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Domain/OS

Domain/OS is the discontinued operating system used by the Apollo/Domain line of workstations manufactured by Apollo Computer.

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Dominions 3: The Awakening

Dominions 3: The Awakening is a fantasy turn-based strategy game created by Illwinter and published in 2006 by Shrapnel Games.

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Dominions II: The Ascension Wars

Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a 4X turn-based, computer strategy game. It was developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Shrapnel Games. The game was released on November 14, 2003 in North America for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Dominions II: The Ascension Wars was the sequel to Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders.

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Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders

Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders is a turn-based strategy game designed by Illwinter Game Design, in which up to fourteen "pretender gods" at a time each battle for global dominance.

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Don't Starve

Don't Starve is a survival game developed by Klei Entertainment.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.

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Doom (franchise)

Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall.

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Doom 64

Doom 64 is a first-person shooter game by Midway.

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Doom engine

id Tech 1, also known as the Doom engine, is the game engine used in the id Software video games Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth.

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Doom modding

Doom WAD is the default format of package files for the video game Doom and its sequel Doom II: Hell on Earth, that contain sprites, levels, and game data.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.

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DOSBox

DOSBox is a free and open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games.

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DOSEMU

DOSEMU, stylized as dosemu, is a compatibility layer software package that enables DOS operating systems (e.g., MS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS) and application software to run atop Linux on x86-based PCs (IBM PC compatible computers).

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Dota 2

Dota 2 is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve.

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Drinkbox Studios

Drinkbox Studios Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Toronto.

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Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Dungeons of Dredmor is a roguelike indie video game released on July 13, 2011, by Gaslamp Games.

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Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress (previously titled Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games.

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EA (app)

EA, also known as EA Desktop and formerly known as Origin, is a digital distribution platform for Microsoft Windows and macOS, developed by Electronic Arts for purchasing and playing video games.

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Edmund McMillen

Edmund Charles McMillen (born March 2, 1980) is an American video game designer and artist.

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EGL (API)

EGL is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs (such as OpenGL, OpenGL ES or OpenVG) and the underlying native platform windowing system.

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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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Elite (video game)

Elite is a space trading video game.

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Emacs

Emacs, originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.

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Empire: Total War

Empire: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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Enterbrain

, formerly, is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing founded on January 30, 1987 as.

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Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina.

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Episodic video game

An episodic video game is a video game of a shorter length that is commercially released as an installment to a continuous and larger series.

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EPSXe

ePSXe (enhanced PSX emulator) is a PlayStation video game console emulator for x86-based PC hardware with Microsoft Windows and Linux, as well as devices running Android.

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Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire (also known as Eric's Ultimate Solitaire X) is a commercial solitaire game developed by Delta Tao Software for the Macintosh.

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Eschalon: Book I

Eschalon: Book I is an isometric turn-based role-playing video game by Basilisk Games.

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Eschalon: Book II

Eschalon: Book II is an isometric, turn-based single player role-playing video game by Basilisk Games.

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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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Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge

Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge is a first-person shooter video game developed by ExcaliburWorld Software.

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Exile (1995 video game series)

Exile is a series of role-playing video games created by Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software.

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ExtremeTech

ExtremeTech is a technology weblog, launched in June 2001, which focuses on hardware, computer software, science and other technologies.

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Fatal Hearts

Fatal Hearts is an English-language visual novel/adventure game in which players control a teenage female protagonist who is having strange dreams while people are being murdered.

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FCEUX

FCEUX is an open-source Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer Disk System emulator.

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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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Fez (video game)

Fez is a 2012 indie puzzle-platform game developed by Polytron Corporation and published by Trapdoor.

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Findev

Findev Inc. (formerly TransGaming Inc.) is a real estate investing company, with its head office in Toronto.

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First-person shooter

A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.

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Fiwix

Fiwix is an operating system kernel based on the UNIX architecture and fully focused on being POSIX compatible.

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FMOD

FMOD is a proprietary sound effects engine and authoring tool for video games and applications developed by Firelight Technologies. Video games and Linux and FMOD are video game development software for Linux.

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Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Free Software Directory

The Free Software Directory (FSD) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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Freebird Games

Freebird Games is a video game developer based in Canada.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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Freeciv

Freeciv is a single- and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.

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FreeSpace 2

FreeSpace 2 is a 1999 space combat simulation computer game developed by Volition as the sequel to Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War.

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Freeware

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

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Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire (FoF) is a free, open-source music video game created by Finnish independent video game developer Unreal Voodoo.

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Frictional Games

Frictional Games AB is a Swedish independent video game developer based in Malmö, founded in January 2007 by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson.

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Frozen Bubble

Frozen Bubble is a free software clone of Puzzle Bobble for a variety of home and mobile systems.

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Frozenbyte

Frozenbyte, Inc. (natively Frozenbyte) is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

FTL: Faster Than Light is a roguelike game created by indie developer Subset Games, which was released for Windows, OS X, and Linux in September 2012.

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Fuse (emulator)

The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) is an emulator of the 1980s ZX Spectrum home computer and its various clones for Unix, Windows and macOS.

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Galaga

is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco.

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Galak-Z: The Dimensional

Galak-Z: The Dimensional is a shooter video game developed and published by 17-Bit.

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Gambas

Gambas is the name of an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, as well as the integrated development environment that accompanies it.

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Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year.

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Game controller

A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to provide input to a video game.

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Game creation system

A game creation system (GCS) is a consumer-targeted game engine and a set of specialized design tools, and sometimes also a light scripting language, engineered for the rapid iteration of user-derived video games.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game Editor

Game Editor is a 2D game authoring package. Video games and Linux and game Editor are video game development software for Linux.

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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 Gadget

The Game Gadget is an open source gaming handheld that supports music and video playback, open game development, and some e-reader features.

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Gamebook

A gamebook is a work of printed fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices.

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GameCube

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

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GameFAQs

GameFAQs is a video gaming website that hosts guides and other resources, as well as an active message board forum.

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GameMaker

GameMaker (originally Animo, Game Maker (until 2011) and GameMaker Studio) is a series of cross-platform game engines created by Mark Overmars in 1999 and developed by YoYo Games since 2007.

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GamePark Holdings

GPH, formerly known as GamePark Holdings, was a South Korean company responsible for creating the GP2X.

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Gamerizon

Gamerizon is a video game developer and publisher headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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GamersGate

GamersGate AB (formerly Gamer's Gate) is a Sweden-based online video game store offering electronic strategy guides and games for Windows, macOS, and Linux via direct download.

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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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GameSpy

GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.

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GarageGames

GarageGames was a game technology and software developer.

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Gaslamp Games

Gaslamp Games, Inc. was an independent game developer based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada which designed video games for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.

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General Graphics Interface

General Graphics Interface (GGI) was a project that aimed to develop a reliable, stable and fast computer graphics system that works everywhere. Video games and Linux and General Graphics Interface are video game development software for Linux.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gish (video game)

Gish is a 2004 platform game developed and published by Chronic Logic.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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Glest

Glest is a free and open-source real-time strategy computer game from 2004.

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GLFW

GLFW (Graphics Library Framework) is a lightweight utility library for use with OpenGL.

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Glibc

The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library.

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GlobeNewswire

GlobeNewswire provides press release distribution services globally, with substantial operations in North America and Europe.

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Gloom (video game)

Gloom is a 1995 computer game for the Amiga computer.

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Gloom 3

Gloom 3 (also known as Ultimate Gloom and Gloom 3: Zombie Edition) is a video game for the Amiga computer, released in 1997.

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GLX

GLX (initialism for "OpenGL Extension to the X Window System") is an extension to the X Window System core protocol providing an interface between OpenGL and the X Window System as well as extensions to OpenGL itself.

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GNU Debugger

The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, C, C++, D, Fortran, Haskell, Go, Objective-C, OpenCL C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, and partially others. Video games and Linux and GNU Debugger are video game development software for Linux.

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GNU Hurd

GNU Hurd is a collection of microkernel servers written as part of GNU, for the GNU Mach microkernel.

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GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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GNU Project

The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.

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Go (programming language)

Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

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GOG.com

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films.

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Golgotha (video game)

Golgotha is an unfinished video game that was being developed by Crack dot Com prior to shutting down in 1998.

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Gone Home

Gone Home is a first-person exploration video game developed and published by The Fullbright Company.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Gorky 17

Gorky 17 (released as Odium in North America) is a turn-based tactics tactical role-playing video game developed by Polish studio Metropolis Software and published by Monolith Productions for Microsoft Windows in 1999.

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GP2X

The GP2X is a Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings.

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Graphics Device Interface

The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

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Grappling Hook (video game)

Grappling Hook is a first-person shooter video game which contains both platform and puzzle elements.

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Gravity Bone

Gravity Bone is a 2008 freeware adventure game developed and published by Blendo Games.

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Gray Matter Studios

Gray Matter Interactive Studios, Inc. (Gray Matter Studios; formerly Xatrix Entertainment, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Los Angeles.

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GridWars

GridWars or GridWars 2 (stylized as |g|ridwars) is a video game inspired by Bizarre Creations' Geometry Wars by Canadian developer Marco Incitti.

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Grim Fandango

Grim Fandango is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows.

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Grin (company)

Grin AB was a video game developer based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Guacamelee!

Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania action platforming video game developed and published by DrinkBox Studios, initially launched in April 2013 for platforms PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita and was later ported to Windows in August and to OS X and Linux in February 2014.

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Guitar Hero (video game)

Guitar Hero is a 2005 rhythm game developed by Harmonix and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2.

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H-Craft Championship

H-Craft Championship is a science fiction racing game developed by independent game studio Irrgheist.

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Hack (video game)

Hack is a 1984 roguelike video game that introduced shops as gameplay elements and expanded available monsters, items, and spells.

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Hackaday

Hackaday is a hardware hacking website.

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Half-Life (video game)

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows.

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Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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Hammerfight

Hammerfight, previously known as Hammerfall, is a 2-dimensional physics-based video game published by Kranx Productions and 1C for Windows in 2009.

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Hanako Games

Hanako Games is an independent video game development company founded by Georgina Bensley that develops PC games mostly involving female protagonists centered on fantasy- and anime-inspired style.

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Handheld game console

A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers.

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Haskell

Haskell is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation.

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Hatari (emulator)

Hatari is an open-source emulator of the Atari ST 16/32-bit computer system family.

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Hatoful Boyfriend

is a Japanese dōjin soft otome visual novel released in 2011 for Microsoft Windows and OS X, in which all the characters other than the protagonist are sentient birds.

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Havok (software)

Havok is a middleware software suite developed by the Irish company Havok.

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Head over Heels (video game)

Head Over Heels is an action-adventure game published by Ocean Software in 1987 for several home computers.

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Head-mounted display

A head-mounted display (HMD) is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet (see helmet-mounted display for aviation applications), that has a small display optic in front of one (monocular HMD) or each eye (binocular HMD).

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Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 is a third-person shooter video game made by Ritual Entertainment in 2000.

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Heileen

Heileen is a visual novel video game series developed and published by the Italian studio Tycoon Games for the Android, Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows.

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Heretic (video game)

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in December 1994.

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Heretic II

Heretic II is a dark fantasy action-adventure game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in November 1998 continuing the story of Corvus, the main character from its predecessor, Heretic.

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Heroes of Might and Magic III

Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (commonly referred to as Heroes of Might & Magic 3, or Heroes 3, or abbreviated HoMM 3) is a turn-based strategy game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing originally released for Microsoft Windows by The 3DO Company in 1999.

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Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth (HoN) was a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game originally developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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Hexen II

Hexen II is a dark fantasy first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software in 1997.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software distributed through GT Interactive on October 30, 1995.

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Higan (emulator)

Higan is a free and open source emulator for multiple video game consoles, including the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Home video game console

A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games.

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Homeworld

Homeworld is a real-time strategy video game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios on September 28, 1999, for Windows.

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Hopkins FBI

Hopkins FBI is a 1998 point-and-click adventure game from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large (at the time) amounts of gore.

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Hotline Miami

Hotline Miami is a 2012 top-down shooter game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital.

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HP-UX

HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on Unix System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984.

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HTML5

HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language 5) is a markup language used for structuring and presenting hypertext documents on the World Wide Web.

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Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle, Inc. is a digital storefront for video games, which grew out of its original offering of Humble Bundles, collections of games sold at a price determined by the purchaser and with a portion of the price going towards charity and the rest split between the game developers.

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Hyperion Entertainment

Hyperion Entertainment CVBA (formerly Hyperion Entertainment VOF) is a Belgian software company which in its early years focused in porting Windows games to Amiga OS, Linux, and Mac OS.

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Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Hyperspace Delivery Boy! is a puzzle action game released for the Pocket PC on December 23, 2001.

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Ibiblio

ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections", and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

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IBM AIX

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

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ICGA Journal

The ICGA Journal is a quarterly academic journal published by the International Computer Games Association.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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Id Tech

id Tech is a series of separate game engines designed and developed by id Software.

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IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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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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Illwinter Game Design

Illwinter Game Design is the name of a small software company in Sweden composed of Johan Karlsson and Kristoffer Osterman.

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Indie game

An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games.

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Indrema

Indrema Corporation, also known as Indrema Entertainment Systems, was a consumer electronics company famous for the Indrema L600 Entertainment System, a game console intended for independent game developers.

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InfoWorld

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.

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Inherit the Earth

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is an adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by New World Computing in 1994.

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Inner Worlds (video game)

Inner Worlds is a 1996 fantasy platform game by Sleepless Software Inc.

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Instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers.

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Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development.

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Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Video games and Linux and Interactive fiction are video gaming.

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International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Introversion Software

Introversion Software Limited is a British video game developer based in Walton-on-Thames, England.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.

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IRIX

IRIX is a discontinued operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run on the company's proprietary MIPS workstations and servers.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jack Keane (video game)

Jack Keane is a 2007 point-and-click adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive, published by 10tacle Studios, and digitally distributed by Legacy Interactive.

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Jagged Alliance 2

Jagged Alliance 2 is a tactical role-playing game released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and later ported to Linux by Tribsoft.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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Java virtual machine

A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

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Jets'n'Guns

Jets'n'Guns is a 2004 2D horizontally scrolling shooter for Microsoft Windows by Czech studio Rake in Grass. In April 2006, a version for Mac OS X was released. In December 2006 an expansion, Jets'n'Guns Gold, was released. A version for Linux has been developed by Linux Game Publishing.

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JMonkeyEngine

jMonkeyEngine (abbreviated JME or jME) is an open-source and cross-platform game engine for developing 3D games written in Java.

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Joe Dever

Joseph Robert Dever, also known as Joe Dever (12 February 1956 – 29 November 2016) was an English fantasy author and game designer.

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Katawa Shoujo

is a bishōjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities.

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Ken's Labyrinth

Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter for MS-DOS published in 1993 by Epic MegaGames.

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Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a space flight simulation video game developed by Mexican studio Squad for Linux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One.

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Kingpin: Life of Crime

Kingpin: Life of Crime is a first-person shooter developed by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment in June 1999.

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Klei Entertainment

Klei Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian video game development company located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom

Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom, known as simply Knights and Merchants, is a medieval-time based real-time strategy (RTS) video game.

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Knoppix

Knoppix, stylized KNOPPIX, is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD (Live CD) or a USB flash drive (Live USB).

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Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns is a real-time strategy video game developed by TimeGate Studios.

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Language binding

In programming and software design, binding is an application programming interface (API) that provides glue code specifically made to allow a programming language to use a foreign library or operating system service (one that is not native to that language).

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Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2 is a 2009 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve.

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Lemmings (video game)

Lemmings is a puzzle–strategy video game originally developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga in 1991 and later ported for numerous other platforms.

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Lennart Poettering

Lennart Poettering (born 15 October 1980) is a German software engineer working for Microsoft and the original author of PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd.

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Level (video games)

In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, mission, stage, course, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective.

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Limbo (video game)

Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game with horror elements developed by independent studio Playdead and originally published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360.

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Lincity

Lincity is a free and open-source software construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy, similar in concept to SimCity.

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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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Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.

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Linux for PlayStation 2

Linux for PlayStation 2 (or PS2 Linux) is a kit released by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2002 that allows the PlayStation 2 console to be used as a personal computer.

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Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects.

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Linux Game Publishing

Linux Game Publishing (sometimes also referred to as LGP) was a software company based in Nottingham in England.

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Linux Gazette

The Linux Gazette was a monthly self-published Linux computing webzine, published between July 1995 and June 2011.

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Linux Journal

Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

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Linux kernel interfaces

The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code that are used for varying purposes and that have varying properties by design.

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Linux Magazine

Linux Magazine is an international magazine for Linux software enthusiasts and professionals.

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Linux.com

Linux.com is a website that is owned by the Linux Foundation, where the goal of the site is to provide information about the developments and changes in Linux and related products, as well as providing a hub for the Linux community.

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List of BSD operating systems

There are a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants developed (originally by Bill Joy) at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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List of emulators

This article lists software emulators.

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List of game engine recreations

Game engine recreation is a type of video game engine remastering process wherein a new game engine is written from scratch as a clone of the original with the full ability to read the original game's data files.

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List of Global Star Software games

Global Star Software was a Canadian video game publisher based in Mississauga.

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List of open-source video games

This is a list of notable open-source video games.

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List of Sega arcade system boards

Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world.

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List of Unix systems

Each version of the UNIX Time-Sharing System evolved from the version before, with version one evolving from the prototypal Unix.

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List of video game console emulators

The following is a list of notable video game console emulators.

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LithTech

LithTech is a game engine developed by Monolith Productions and comparable with the Quake and Unreal engines.

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Little Inferno

Little Inferno is a puzzle video game developed and published by American independent game developer Tomorrow Corporation.

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Live CD

A live CD (also live DVD, live disc, or live operating system) is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs directly from a CD-ROM or similar storage device into a computer's memory, rather than loading from a hard disk drive.

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Live USB

A live USB is a portable USB-attached external data storage device containing a full operating system that can be booted from.

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LLDB (debugger)

The LLDB Debugger (LLDB) is the debugger component of the LLVM project. Video games and Linux and LLDB (debugger) are video game development software for Linux.

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Lode Runner

Lode Runner is a 2D puzzle-platform game, developed by Doug Smith and published by Broderbund in 1983.

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Loki Entertainment

Loki Software, Inc. (Loki Entertainment) was an American video game developer based in Tustin, California, that ported several video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux.

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Lone Wolf (gamebooks)

Lone Wolf is a series currently consisting of 31 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated (books 1–8) by Gary Chalk.

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Looking Glass Studios

Looking Glass Studios, Inc. (formerly Blue Sky Productions and LookingGlass Technologies, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Loren the Amazon Princess

Loren The Amazon Princess is a Fantasy RPG visual novel by Italian independent studio Winter Wolves.

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Lua (programming language)

Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications.

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Lugaru

Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot is the first commercial video game created by indie developer Wolfire Games.

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Lunar Lander (video game genre)

Lunar Lander is a genre of video games loosely based on the 1969 landing of the Apollo Lunar Module on the Moon.

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Lure of the Temptress

Lure of the Temptress is a point-and-click adventure game published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in June 1992 for Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Amiga.

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Lutris

Lutris is a free and open source game manager for Linux-based operating systems developed and maintained by Mathieu Comandon and the community, released under the GNU General Public License.

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Lux (video game)

Lux is a series of turn-based strategy computer games, inspired by the rule system of the board game Risk but expanding it to function on any map made up of a graph of countries and the connections between them.

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Lxrun

In Unix computing, lxrun is a compatibility layer to allow Linux binaries to run on UnixWare, SCO OpenServer and Solaris without recompilation.

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LynxOS

The LynxOS RTOS is a Unix-like real-time operating system from Lynx Software Technologies (formerly "LynuxWorks").

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Mac operating systems

Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series.

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Machinarium

Machinarium is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design.

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Macmillan Inc.

Macmillan Inc. was an American book publishing company originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers.

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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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Mad Max (2015 video game)

Mad Max is a 2015 action-adventure video game developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Maelstrom (1992 video game)

Maelstrom is a multidirectional shooter developed by Andrew Welch and released as shareware in November 1992 for Mac OS.

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Mahjong

Mahjong (English pronunciation) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century.

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Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is a real-time strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios, and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand name for Windows in March 2000.

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MAME

MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A. Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, system software, etc.) and 12 months for desktop updates (window managers, desktop environments, web browsers, etc.).

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Marathon (video game)

Marathon is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Bungie, and released in December 1994 for the Apple Macintosh.

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Marathon 2: Durandal

Marathon 2: Durandal is a first-person shooter video game, part of the science fiction Marathon Trilogy by Bungie.

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Marble Blast

Marble Blast is a 2002 3D platform game.

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Mario Kart

is a series of kart racing games based on the Mario franchise developed and published by Nintendo.

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Mark of the Ninja

Mark of the Ninja is a side-scrolling stealth platform game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios.

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Master of Orion

Master of Orion (abbreviated as MoO) is a turn-based, 4X science fiction strategy game in which the player leads one of ten races to dominate the galaxy through a combination of diplomacy and conquest while developing technology, exploring and colonizing star systems.

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Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed by 2015, Inc. and published by Electronic Arts.

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Mednafen

Mednafen (My Emulator Doesn't Need A Fucking Excellent Name), formerly known as Nintencer, is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system free software wrapper that bundles various original and third-party emulation cores into a single package, and is driven by command-line input.

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Metro 2033 (video game)

Metro 2033 is a 2010 first-person shooter survival horror video game developed by 4A Games and published by THQ.

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Metro: Last Light

Metro: Last Light is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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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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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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MindRover

MindRover: The Europa Project, also known as simply MindRover, is a video game for PC, developed by CogniToy.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.

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Minesweeper (video game)

Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers.

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Minix

MINIX (from mini-Unix) is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture.

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Minix 3

Minix 3 is a small, Unix-like operating system.

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Mobility (video game)

Mobility is a city-building simulation video game developed by Glamus as an initiative of DaimlerChrysler, with scientific data done by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

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Mojang Studios

Mojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.

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Monolith Productions

Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington.

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Moria (1983 video game)

The Dungeons of Moria, usually referred to as simply Moria,Also called UMoria since its rework in C in 1987 is a computer game inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Motorola 68040

The Motorola 68040 ("sixty-eight-oh-forty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 series, released in 1990.

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Mountain King Studios

Mountain King Studios (formerly known as Cygnus Studios) is a computer game company located in Chicago, Illinois.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Mugen (game engine)

Mugen (stylized as M.U.G.E.N) is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte. Video games and Linux and Mugen (game engine) are video game development software for Linux.

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Multi Emulator Super System

Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) was an emulator for various consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core.

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Multi-monitor

Multi-monitor, also called multi-display and multi-head, is the use of multiple physical display devices, such as monitors, televisions, and projectors, in order to increase the area available for computer programs running on a single computer system.

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Mumble (software)

Mumble is a voice over IP (VoIP) application primarily designed for use by gamers and is similar to programs such as TeamSpeak.

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Mupen64Plus

Mupen64Plus, formerly named Mupen64-64bit and Mupen64-amd64, is a free and open-source, cross-platform Nintendo 64 emulator, written in the programming languages C and C++.

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Musl

musl is a C standard library intended for operating systems based on the Linux kernel, released under the MIT License.

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Myth (video game series)

Myth is a series of real-time tactics video games for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.

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Myth II: Soulblighter

Myth II: Soulblighter is a 1998 real-time tactics video game developed by Bungie for Windows and Mac OS.

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Naughty Dog

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

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Ncurses

ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows writing text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a computer terminal-independent manner.

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Neo Geo X

The Neo Geo X (NGX) is a hybrid video game console manufactured by Tommo, licensed by SNK Playmore.

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Nestopia

Nestopia UE - and its predecessor Nestopia - are open-source NES/Famicom emulators designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible.

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NetHack

NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam.

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Netrek

Netrek is an Internet game for up to 16 players, written almost entirely in cross-platform open-source code.

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Neverwinter Nights (2002 video game)

Neverwinter Nights is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare.

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Newton Game Dynamics

Newton Game Dynamics is an open-source physics engine for realistically simulating rigid bodies in games and other real-time applications.

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD.

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Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a free first-person shooter video game developed and published by Alientrap.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Nvidia Shield Portable

The Nvidia Shield Portable (Nvidia Shield or NSP) is a handheld game console developed by Nvidia, released on July 31, 2013.

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OCaml

OCaml (formerly Objective Caml) is a general-purpose, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language which extends the Caml dialect of ML with object-oriented features.

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Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is an independent adventure video game developed and published by Young Horses.

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Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine

The Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine (abbreviated as OHRRPGCE and OHR) is a free and open-source, "all-in-one" game creation system.

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Oil Rush

Oil Rush is a tower defense real-time strategy game developed by UNIGINE Holding S.à r.l. using their Unigine engine technology.

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OLPC XO

The OLPC XO (formerly known as $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, 2B1) is a low cost laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning).

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Online game

An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or any other computer network available.

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Oolite (video game)

Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" ''Elite'', a similar game published in the 1980s.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Open-source video game

An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source.

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OpenAL

OpenAL (Open Audio Library) is a cross-platform audio application programming interface (API).

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OpenArena

OpenArena is a free and open-source video game.

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OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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OpenIndiana

OpenIndiana is a free and open-source illumos distribution descended from UNIX System V Release 4 via the OpenSolaris operating system.

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OpenPlay

OpenPlay is the name of an open-source cross-platform networking library created by Apple Inc. OpenPlay compiles and runs on the Classic Mac OS, macOS, Windows and Linux operating systems.

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OpenServer

Xinuos OpenServer, previously SCO UNIX and SCO Open Desktop (SCO ODT), is a closed source computer operating system developed by Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), later acquired by SCO Group, and now owned by Xinuos.

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OpenTTD

OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players try to earn money by transporting passengers, minerals and goods via road, rail, water and air.

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OpenVMS

OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system.

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OpenZaurus

OpenZaurus is a defunct embedded operating system for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool PDA.

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OptiX

Nvidia OptiX (OptiX Application Acceleration Engine) is a ray tracing API that was first developed around 2009.

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Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Origin Systems

Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.

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Osmos

Osmos is a 2009 puzzle video game developed by Canadian developer Hemisphere Games for various systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, OnLive, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android.

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OSNews

OSNews is a computing online newspaper.

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Out of the Park Baseball

Out of the Park Baseball (abbreviated as OOTP) is a text-based baseball simulation for career, historical, and fictional play.

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Ouya

The Ouya, stylized as OUYA, is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc.

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Overgrowth (video game)

Overgrowth is an action video game released by Wolfire Games available for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Pandora (computer)

The Pandora is a handheld gaming computer originally released in 2010. It is designed to take advantage of existing free and open-source software and to be a target for homebrew development. It is developed and produced by OpenPandora, which is made up of former distributors and community members of the GP32 and GP2X handhelds.

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Pascal (programming language)

Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

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Pathways into Darkness

Pathways into Darkness is a first-person shooter adventure video game developed and published by Bungie in 1993, for Macintosh personal computers.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PC-98

The, commonly shortened to PC-98 or, is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 to 2000.

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PCMag

PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.

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PCSX-Reloaded

PCSX is a free and open-source, video game console emulator that allows software designed to be used with the Sony PlayStation to run on personal computers.

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PCSX2

PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS that supports a wide range of PlayStation 2 video games with a high level of compatibility and functionality.

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Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an episodic action-adventure role-playing video game series based on the webcomic Penny Arcade.

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Penumbra: Black Plague

Penumbra: Black Plague is the second installment of the Penumbra series of episodic video games developed by Frictional Games.

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Penumbra: Overture

Penumbra: Overture (also known as Penumbra: Overture – Episode One) is the first in a series of episodic survival horror games developed by Frictional Games.

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Penumbra: Requiem

Penumbra: Requiem is an expansion pack to the game Penumbra: Black Plague developed by Frictional Games.

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Peripheral

A peripheral device, or simply peripheral, is an auxiliary hardware device that a computer uses to transfer information externally.

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Permadeath

Permadeath or permanent death is a game mechanic in both tabletop games and video games in which player characters who lose all of their health are considered dead and cannot be used anymore.

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Permissive software license

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer.

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Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.

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Philos Laboratories

Philos Laboratories (also known as Philos Laboratories Software Developer Ltd. or Philos Labs and later Philos Entertainment, Inc) was a Hungarian computer software development company known for working with producer Ubisoft and CDV Software Entertainment.

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Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems.

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PhysX

PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as a part of Nvidia GameWorks software suite. Video games and Linux and physX are video game development software for Linux.

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Pillars of Eternity

Pillars of Eternity is a 2015 role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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Pingus

Pingus is an open-source video game programmed by German developer Ingo Ruhnke.

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PlaneShift (video game)

PlaneShift is a cross-platform 3D Online Multiplayer Role Playing Game in a fantasy setting.

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Planet Stronghold

Planet Stronghold is a visual novel, sci-fi role-playing video game with a turn-based combat system, developed and published by Italian studio Winter Wolves on February 28, 2011 for the Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

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PlayOnLinux

PlayOnLinux is a graphical frontend for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux users to install Windows-based video games, Microsoft Office (2000 to 2016), Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as many other applications such as Apple iTunes and Safari.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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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 Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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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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Portal (video game)

Portal is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve.

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Portal 2

Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

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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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Postal (video game)

Postal is a 1997 isometric top-down shooter video game developed by Running with Scissors and published by Ripcord Games.

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Postal 2

Postal 2 is a 2003 first-person shooter video game developed by Running with Scissors and published by Whiptail Interactive.

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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PowerSlave

PowerSlave, known as Exhumed in Europe and in Japan, is a first-person shooter video game developed by Lobotomy Software and published by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in North America, and BMG Interactive in Europe and Japan.

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PPSSPP

PPSSPP (an acronym for "PlayStation Portable Simulator Suitable for Playing Portably") is a free and open-source PSP emulator for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo Switch, BlackBerry 10, MeeGo, Pandora, Xbox Series X/S and Symbian with a focus on speed and portability.

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Prey (2006 video game)

Prey is a first-person shooter video game developed by Human Head Studios, under contract for 3D Realms, and published by 2K Games, while the Xbox 360 version was ported by Venom Games.

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Programming language

A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.

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Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid is an open-world, isometric video game developed by British and Canadian independent developer The Indie Stone.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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PulseAudio

PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project.

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Puzzle Bobble

internationally known as Bust-A-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching puzzle arcade game developed and published by Taito.

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Puzzle Pirates

Puzzle Pirates (also known as Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates) is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Three Rings Design (Later owned by Grey Havens LLC).

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Pygame

Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. Video games and Linux and Pygame are video game development software for Linux.

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Python (programming language)

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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QNX

QNX is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market.

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Qt Creator

Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript, Python and QML integrated development environment (IDE) which simplifies GUI application development.

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Quadrilateral Cowboy

Quadrilateral Cowboy is a first-person puzzle-adventure video game by independent developer Blendo Games.

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Quake (series)

Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games, developed by id Software and, as of 2010, published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Quake II

Quake II is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software.

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QuantZ

QuantZ is a puzzle and strategy game released by publisher and developer Gamerizon, a small company out of Montreal, on September 3, 2009.

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Quartz (graphics layer)

In Apple's macOS operating system, Quartz is the Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor part of the Core Graphics framework.

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Railroad Tycoon II

Railroad Tycoon II is a business simulation video game in the ''Railroad Tycoon'' series developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers.

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RakNet

RakNet is networking middleware developed by Oculus VR, Inc. for use in the video game industry.

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Raptor: Call of the Shadows

Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee Software.

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Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom.

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Rebol

Rebol (historically REBOL) is a cross-platform data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing.

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Red (programming language)

Red is a programming language designed to overcome the limitations of the programming language Rebol.

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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004.

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Redneck Rampage

Redneck Rampage is a 1997 first-person shooter game developed by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay.

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Reference work

A reference work is a non-fiction work, such as a paper, book or periodical (or their electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information.

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Ren'Py

The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine (or RenPy for short) is a free software game engine which facilitates the creation of visual novels. Video games and Linux and Ren'Py are video game development software for Linux.

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Retro City Rampage

Retro City Rampage is an action-adventure game developed by Vblank Entertainment.

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RetroArch

RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications.

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Retrogaming

Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming and old school gaming, is the playing and collection of obsolete personal computers, consoles, and video games.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 20, 2001, for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

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Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.

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Revolution Software

Revolution Software Limited is a British video game developer based in York, founded in 1989 by Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner, David Sykes, and Noirin Carmody.

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Rise of the Triad

Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms) in 1995.

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Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood

Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is a 2002 stealth-based real-time tactics video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment.

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Roblox

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Rocks'n'Diamonds

Rocks'n'Diamonds is a puzzle video game with elements of Boulder Dash, Supaplex, Emerald Mine, Solomon's Key, and Sokoban.

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Roguelike

Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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RPG Maker

RPG Maker, known in Japan as, is a series of programs for the development of role-playing video games (RPGs) with story-driven elements, created by the Japanese group ASCII, succeeded by Enterbrain, and then by Gotcha Gotcha Games.

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Rubik's Cube

The Rubik's Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.

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Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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Rune (video game)

Rune is an action-adventure video game developed by Human Head Studios which was released in 2000.

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RuneScape

RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001.

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RuneSoft

Runesoft GmbH, stylised as RuneSoft (founded as e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh), is a German publisher founded in 2000 that ports games to alternative platforms such as Linux, Mac OS X, AmigaOS, MorphOS, and magnussoft ZETA.

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Rust (programming language)

Rust is a general-purpose programming language emphasizing performance, type safety, and concurrency.

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Ryan C. Gordon

Ryan C. Gordon (also known as icculus) is a computer programmer and former Loki Software employee responsible for icculus.org, which hosts many Loki Software projects as well as others.

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Ryzom

Ryzom, also known as The Saga of Ryzom, is a free and open source massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Nevrax for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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S2 Games

S2 Games was a video game development company which was founded by Marc "Maliken" DeForest, Jesse Hayes, and Sam McGrath, based in Rohnert Park, California.

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Sacred (video game)

Sacred is a 2004 action role-playing game developed by the German company Ascaron and published by Take 2 Interactive.

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Saints Row 2

Saints Row 2 is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ.

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Saints Row IV

Saints Row IV is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver.

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Saints Row: The Third

Saints Row: The Third is a 2011 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ.

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Sakevisual

Sakevisual (stylized as sakevisual) is a developer and publisher of interactive story games such as visual novels and otome games, well known for their otome game RE: Alistair++.

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Salem (video game)

Salem is a Java based free-to-play MMORPG developed by Mortal Moments.

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Samorost 2

Samorost 2 is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design.

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Sams Publishing

Sams Publishing (originally Howard W. Sams & Co.) is an imprint for technical training manuals owned by the global education company Pearson plc.

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Savage 2: A Tortured Soul

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is a fantasy and science fiction themed video game that combines elements of the first-person shooter, real-time strategy, and action role-playing game genres.

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Savage: The Battle for Newerth

Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a 2003 video game combining aspects of the real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres, developed by S2 Games.

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SCO Skunkware

SCO Skunkware, often referred to as simply "Skunkware", is a collection of open-source software projects ported, compiled, and packaged for free redistribution on SCO operating environments.

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Scorched 3D

Scorched 3D is a free and open source artillery game modeled after the MS-DOS game Scorched Earth.

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Scorched Earth (video game)

Scorched Earth is a shareware artillery video game.

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Scratch (programming language)

Scratch is a high-level, block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool, with a target audience of ages 8 to 16.

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ScummVM

Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations.

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Second Life

Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world.

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Secret Maryo Chronicles

Secret Maryo Chronicles is a free and open-source two-dimensional platform computer game that began in 2003.

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Serious Sam

Serious Sam is a video game series created and primarily developed by Croteam.

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Serious Sam 3: BFE

Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person shooter video game developed by Croatia-based indie development studio Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.

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Seven Kingdoms (video game)

Seven Kingdoms is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Trevor Chan of Enlight Software.

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Shadow Warrior (1997 video game)

Shadow Warrior is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive.

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Shadowgrounds

Shadowgrounds is a top-down shooter for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, developed by Frozenbyte.

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Shadowgrounds: Survivor

Shadowgrounds: Survivor is a top-down shooter game developed by Frozenbyte as the sequel to Shadowgrounds.

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Shadowrun Returns

Shadowrun Returns is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Harebrained Schemes.

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Shank (video game)

Shank is a 2D side-scrolling hack and slash video game developed by Canadian independent studio Klei Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts in 2010.

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Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.

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Sharp Zaurus

The Sharp Zaurus is the name of a series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) made by Sharp Corporation.

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SheepShaver

SheepShaver is an open-source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator originally designed for BeOS and Linux.

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Shogi

, also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.

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Shogo: Mobile Armor Division

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Monolith and Interplay Entertainment in 1998.

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Shovel Knight

Shovel Knight is a platform video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games.

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Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is a fantasy role-playing video game.

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the ''Civilization'' series.

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SimCity (1989 video game)

SimCity (also known as the retronyms Micropolis or SimCity Classic) is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991.

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SimCity 3000

SimCity 3000 is a city building simulation video game released in 1999, and the third major installment in the ''SimCity'' series.

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Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a simple application programming interface (API) to various multimedia components in computers. Video games and Linux and simple and Fast Multimedia Library are video game development software for Linux.

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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components. Video games and Linux and Simple DirectMedia Layer are video game development software for Linux.

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Sin (video game)

Sin is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ritual Entertainment and published by Activision in 1998.

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Single-board computer

A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features required of a functional computer.

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SingStar

SingStar is a competitive music video game series for PlayStation consoles, developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted

Sir, You Are Being Hunted (alternatively titled Madam, You Are Being Hunted) is an open world survival horror stealth video game developed by Big Robot for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Sir-Tech

Sir-Tech Software, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher based in the United States and Canada.

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Skullgirls

Skullgirls is a 2D fighting game developed by Reverge Labs and published by Autumn Games.

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Skulls of the Shogun

Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based tactics video game developed by 17-Bit.

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Slashdot

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.

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Snap! (programming language)

Snap! (formerly Build Your Own Blocks) is a free block-based educational graphical programming language and online community.

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Snes9x

Snes9x is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator with official ports for MS-DOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS 4, macOS, MorphOS, Xbox, PSP, PS3, GameCube, Wii, iOS, and Android. Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 have an unofficial port named Snes8x.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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A social network game (sometimes simply referred to as a social media game, social gaming, or online social game) is a type of online game that is played through social networks or social media.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Software development kit

A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package.

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Software release life cycle

The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system).

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Solar2D

Solar2D (formerly Corona SDK) is a free and open-source, cross-platform software development kit originally developed by Corona Labs Inc. and now maintained by Vlad Shcherban.

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Soldier of Fortune (video game)

Soldier of Fortune is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 2000 for Microsoft Windows.

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Source (game engine)

Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve.

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Source code

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.

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Source port

A source port is a software project based on the source code of a game engine that allows the game to be played on operating systems or computing platforms with which the game was not originally compatible.

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Source-code editor

A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs.

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Space Travel (video game)

Space Travel is an early video game developed by Ken Thompson in 1969 that simulates travel in the Solar System.

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SPARC

SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Spec Ops: The Line

Spec Ops: The Line is a 2012 third-person shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by 2K.

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SpeedTree

SpeedTree is a group of vegetation programming and modeling software products developed and sold by Interactive Data Visualization, Inc.

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Spiderweb Software

Spiderweb Software is an independent video game developer founded in 1994 by Jeff Vogel in Seattle, Washington.

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Spiral Knights

Spiral Knights is a massively multiplayer online game created by Three Rings Design and now owned by Grey Havens.

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Spring Engine

The Spring Engine (also termed SpringRTS and formerly TA Spring) is a game engine for real-time strategy (RTS) video games.

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Star Control II

Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a 1992 video game, the sequel to Star Control.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

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Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force

Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision.

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Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by LucasArts.

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Steam (service)

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.

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Steel Storm

Steel Storm is an independent video game series developed by Kot-in-Action Creative Artel using the free software DarkPlaces engine that were released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.

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Stella (emulator)

Stella is an emulator of the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename.

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Stencyl

Stencyl is a video game development tool that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web. Video games and Linux and Stencyl are video game development software for Linux.

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StepMania

StepMania is a cross-platform rhythm video game and engine.

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Stratagus

Stratagus is a free and open-source cross-platform game engine used to build real-time strategy video games.

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Strategy video game

Strategy is a major video game genre that emphasizes thinking and planning over direct instant action in order to achieve victory.

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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Strife (1996 video game)

Strife (also known as Strife: Quest for the Sigil) is a first-person shooter role-playing video game developed by Rogue Entertainment.

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a shareware text and source code editor available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Submarine simulator

A submarine simulator is a video game in which the player commands a submarine.

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Summer Session

Summer Session is a dating simulation video game for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms.

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Super 3D Noah's Ark

Super 3D Noah's Ark is a non-violent Christian first-person shooter developed and published by Wisdom Tree for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1994 and MS-DOS in 1995.

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Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy is a 2010 platform game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes under the collective name of "Team Meat".

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SuperGamer

SuperGamer is a Linux distribution for the x86 platform originally based on the PCLinuxOS distribution, and is currently based on VectorLinux.

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Supergiant Games

Supergiant Games, LLC is an American independent video game developer and publisher based in San Francisco.

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SuperTux

SuperTux is a free and open-source 2D side scrolling platform video game inspired by Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. series.

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SuperTuxKart

SuperTuxKart (STK) is a free and open-source kart racing game, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.

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SVGALib

SVGAlib is an open-source low-level graphics library which ran on Linux and FreeBSD and allowed programs to change video mode and display full-screen graphics, without the use of a windowing system. Video games and Linux and SVGALib are video game development software for Linux.

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System Shock 2

System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game designed by Ken Levine and co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios.

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System software

System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software.

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Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling platform video game, released on February 21, 2012, as a launch title of the PlayStation Vita.

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Tank Force

is a 1991 multi-directional shooter arcade game developed and published in Japan by Namco.

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Tar (computing)

In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes.

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Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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TechRepublic

TechRepublic is an online trade publication and social community for IT professionals, providing advice on best practices and tools for the needs of IT decision-makers.

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Terminus (2000 video game)

Terminus is a space-flight role-playing action video game by Vicarious Visions.

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Tetris

Tetris (Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer.

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Text-based game

A text game or text-based game is an electronic game that uses a text-based user interface, that is, the user interface employs a set of encodable characters, such as ASCII, instead of bitmap or vector graphics.

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The Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free and open-source turn-based strategy video game with a high fantasy setting (similar to J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium), designed by Australian-American developer David White and first released in June 2003.

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The Binding of Isaac (video game)

The Binding of Isaac is a roguelike video game designed by independent developers Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl.

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The Dark Mod

The Dark Mod is a free and open-source software first-person stealth video game, inspired by the ''Thief'' series by Looking Glass Studios.

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a 2002 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (formerly known as Escapist Magazine) is an American video game website and online magazine.

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The Flower Shop

The Flower Shop is a visual novel series by Winter Wolves.

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The Labyrinth of Time

The Labyrinth of Time is a graphic adventure video game created by Terra Nova Development, a two-man team composed of Bradley W. Schenck and Michal Todorovic.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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The Settlers II

The Settlers II, originally released as The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici, is a 1996 city-building game with real-time strategy elements for MS-DOS, Mac OS, and Nintendo DS.

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The Sims (video game)

The Sims is a social simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts in 2000.

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The Stanley Parable

The Stanley Parable is a 2013 story-based video game designed and written by developers Davey Wreden and William Pugh.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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The Verve

The Verve were an English rock band formed in Wigan, Greater Manchester, in 1990 by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury.

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Wiedźmin 2: Zabójcy królów) is a 2011, action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red, based on The Witcher series of fantasy novels authored by Andrzej Sapkowski.

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Theocracy (video game)

Theocracy is a real-time strategy game for the PC developed by Philos Laboratories and published by Ubisoft in 2000.

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Theseus and the Minotaur

Theseus and the Minotaur is a type of logic maze designed by Robert Abbott.

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Thief (series)

Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief in a fantasy steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed.

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Thirty Flights of Loving

Thirty Flights of Loving is a first-person adventure video game developed by Brendon Chung under the name Blendo Games.

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Tibia (video game)

Tibia is a multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 1997, developed and published by CipSoft.

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Tic-tac-toe

Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner.

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Tile-based video game

A tile-based video game, or grid-based video game, is a type of video game where the playing area consists of small square (or, much less often, rectangular, parallelogram, or hexagonal) graphic images referred to as tiles laid out in a grid.

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Timothee Besset

Timothée Besset (also known as TTimo) is a French software programmer, best known for supporting Linux, as well as some Macintosh, ports of id Software's products.

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Tizen

Tizen is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics.

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To the Moon

To the Moon is a 2011 adventure game developed and published by Freebird Games.

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Tom's Hardware

Tom's Hardware is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.

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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.

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A tool-assisted speedrun or tool-assisted superplay (TAS) is generally defined as a speedrun or playthrough composed of precise inputs recorded with tools such as video game emulators.

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TORCS

TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) is an open-source 3D car racing simulator available on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS and Microsoft Windows.

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Torque (game engine)

Torque Game Engine, or TGE, is an open-source cross-platform 3D computer game engine, developed by GarageGames and actively maintained under the current versions Torque 3D as well as Torque 2D.

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Total Annihilation

Total Annihilation is a science fiction real-time strategy video game released in September 1997 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS by Cavedog Entertainment and distributed internationally by GT Interactive. Two expansion packs were released in 1998, The Core Contingency on April 29 and Battle Tactics on July 20, while a medieval-themed spin-off called Total Annihilation: Kingdoms was released on June 25, 1999.

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Transistor (video game)

Transistor is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games.

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Transport Tycoon

Transport Tycoon is a city-based pixel video game designed and programmed by Chris Sawyer, and published by MicroProse on 15 November 1994 for DOS.

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Tremulous

Tremulous is a free and open source asymmetric team-based first-person shooter with real-time strategy elements.

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Tribal Trouble

Tribal Trouble is a real-time strategy video game for PC.

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Tribes 2

Tribes 2 is a first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line in 2001 as a sequel to Starsiege: Tribes.

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Tribsoft

Tribsoft was a Canadian software company that specialized in porting computer games to the Linux platform.

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Trine (video game)

Trine is a puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Frozenbyte.

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Tron (video game)

Tron is a coin-operated arcade video game manufactured and distributed by Bally Midway in 1982.

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Tru64 UNIX

Tru64 UNIX is a discontinued 64-bit UNIX operating system for the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA), currently owned by Hewlett-Packard (HP).

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TrueOS

TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.

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Turbolinux

Turbolinux is a discontinued Japanese Linux distribution targeting Asian users.

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Tux (mascot)

Tux is a penguin character and the official brand character of the Linux kernel.

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Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free and open source raster graphics editor geared towards young children.

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Tux Racer

Tux Racer is a 2000 open-source winter sports racing video game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin.

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UAE (emulator)

UAE is a computer emulator which emulates the hardware of Commodore International's Amiga range of computers.

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Ubisoft Connect

Ubisoft Connect (formerly Ubisoft Game Launcher and later Uplay) is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications service developed by Massive Entertainment to provide an experience similar to the achievements/trophies offered by various other game companies.

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.

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Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Software Center, or simply Software Center, is a discontinued high-level graphical front end for the APT/dpkg package management system.

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UFO: Alien Invasion

UFO: Alien Invasion is a strategy video game in which the player fights aliens that are trying to take control of the Earth.

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Ultima Online

Ultima Online (UO) is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on September 24, 1997 by Origin Systems.

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UltraStar

UltraStar is a clone of SingStar, a music video game by Polish developer Patryk "Covus5" Cebula.

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Ultrix

Ultrix (officially all-caps ULTRIX) is the brand name of Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) discontinued native Unix operating systems for the PDP-11, VAX, MicroVAX and DECstations.

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Unigine

UNIGINE is a proprietary cross-platform game engine developed by UNIGINE Company used in simulators, virtual reality systems, serious games and visualization. Video games and Linux and Unigine are video game development software for Linux.

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UNIGINE Company

UNIGINE Company is a multinational software development company headquartered in Clemency, Luxembourg.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Unity (game engine)

Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X game engine.

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Unity (video game)

Unity was a video game being developed by Jeff Minter and Lionhead Studios for the GameCube.

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Unity Technologies

Unity Software Inc. (doing business as Unity Technologies) is an American video game software development company based in San Francisco.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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UNIX System Services

z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX, or informally USS) is a base element of z/OS.

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Unix-like

A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

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UnixWare

UnixWare is a Unix operating system.

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Unreal (1998 video game)

Unreal is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic MegaGames and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive for Microsoft Windows in May 1998.

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Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal.

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Unreal Engine 4

Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is the fourth version of Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games.

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Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2003 is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name.

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Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes.

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Uplink (video game)

Uplink (also known in North America as Uplink: Hacker Elite) is a simulation video game released in 2001 by the British company Introversion Software.

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Urban Terror

Urban Terror is a freeware multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by FrozenSand.

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Valgrind

Valgrind is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.

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Valve Corporation

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

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vanilla software

In computer science, vanilla describes software, hardware or algorithms that have not been customized or modified from their original form.

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Vega Strike

Vega Strike is a first-person space trading and combat simulator, developed for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X systems.

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Vendetta Online

Vendetta Online is a twitch-based, science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Guild Software for the operating systems Android, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, and Microsoft Windows.

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VentureBeat

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

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Vera Blanc

Vera Blanc is an Italian mystery visual novel video game series for the Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows platforms, with art in the comic style.

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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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VICE

The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is a free and cross platform emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video game clone

A video game clone is either a video game or a video game console very similar to, or heavily inspired by, a previous popular game or console.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.

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Video game console emulator

A video game console emulator is a type of emulator that allows a computing device to emulate a video game console's hardware and play its games on the emulating platform.

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Video game industry

The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization and consumer feedback of video games. Video games and Linux and video game industry are video gaming.

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Video game modding

Video game modding (short for "modification") is the process of alteration by players or fans of one or more aspects of a video game, such as how it looks or behaves, and is a sub-discipline of general modding.

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Video games and Linux

Linux-based operating systems can be used for playing video games. Video games and Linux and video games and Linux are video game development software for Linux, video game platforms and video gaming.

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Vim (text editor)

Vim ("Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It's written with a capital, since it's a name, again like Jim." vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program.

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Virtual machine

In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.

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Virtual world

A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.

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Visual novel

A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction.

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VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2.

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Vlambeer

Vlambeer is a Dutch independent video game developer based in Utrecht.

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VMac

vMac is a free and open-source Macintosh Plus emulator which is able to run versions of System 1.1 to 7.5.5.

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VVVVVV

VVVVVV is a 2010 puzzle-platform game created by Terry Cavanagh.

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Walnut Creek CDROM

Walnut Creek CDROM Inc. was an early provider of freeware, shareware, and free software on CD-ROMs.

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Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is a fantasy real-time strategy computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows in 1995 and Mac OS in 1996 by Blizzard's parent, Davidson & Associates.

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Warsow (video game)

Warsow, also stylized as War§ow, is an open source first-person shooter video game.

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Warzone 2100

Warzone 2100 is an open-source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive.

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Widelands

Widelands is a free and open-source, slow-paced real-time strategy video game under the GNU General Public License.

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Wii

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

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Windowing system

In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens.

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Wine (software)

Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.

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Wintermute Engine

Wintermute Engine (WME) is a set of software tools and a runtime interpreter (game engine) primarily designed for creating and running graphical adventure games.

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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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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.

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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free and open-source multiplayer first-person shooter video game within the Wolfenstein series.

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Wolfire Games

Wolfire Games is an American independent video game development company founded by David Rosen.

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WordPerfect

WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.

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World of Goo

World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle video game developed and published by independent game developer 2D Boy.

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World of Padman

World of Padman (WoP) is an open-source first-person shooter video game by German developer Padworld Entertainment available in both English and German.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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WorldForge

The WorldForge project is producing an open source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

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wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications.

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Wyvern (video game)

Wyvern is a 2-dimensional Graphical MUD/MMORPG game which was released for public play on February 4, 2001 by creator Steve Yegge through his company Cabochon Inc.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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X-COM: UFO Defense

UFO: Enemy Unknown (original European title), also known as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America, is a 1994 science fiction strategy video game developed by Mythos Games and MicroProse.

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X.Org Server

X.Org Server is the free and open-source implementation of the X Window System (X11) display server stewarded by the X.Org Foundation.

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X2: The Threat

X2: The Threat is a space simulation video game developed by Egosoft for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It is part of the ''X'' series.

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X3: Reunion

X3: Reunion is a single-player space trading and combat video game developed by Egosoft and published by Deep Silver.

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XBill

XBill is an arcade style game for the X Window System.

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Xbox Linux

Xbox Linux was a project that ported the Linux operating system to the Xbox video game console.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a 2012 turn-based tactics video game that was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.

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Xconq

Xconq is an open-source computer strategy game.

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Xenix

Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late 1970s.

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Xinerama

Xinerama is an extension to the X Window System that enables X applications and window managers to use two or more physical displays as one large virtual display.

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Xlib

Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language.

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Xonotic

Xonotic is a free and open-source first-person shooter video game.

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XPilot

XPilot is a multiplayer video game.

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Xv6

xv6 is a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix in ANSI C for multiprocessor x86 and RISC-V systems.

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Yacht Club Games

Yacht Club Games, LLC is an American independent video game development studio and publisher founded in 2011 by former WayForward Technologies director Sean Velasco.

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Yahoo! Voices

Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content (AC), was a division of Yahoo! that focused on online publishing.

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Yahtzee Croshaw

Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983) is a British journalist, video game critic, author, humourist, video game developer, and audiobook narrator.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Z (video game)

Z is a 1996 real-time strategy computer game by The Bitmap Brothers.

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Z-machine

The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games.

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Z/OS

z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM z/Architecture mainframes, introduced by IBM in October 2000.

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ZDNET

ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.

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ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Zlib License

The zlib license is a permissive free software license which defines the terms under which the zlib software library can be distributed.

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Zombie Massacre (video game)

Zombie Massacre (working title of Gloom 3: The Director's Cut) is a 1998 video game for the Amiga computer.

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ZSNES

ZSNES is a free software Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator written mostly in x86 assembly with official ports for Linux, DOS, Windows, and unofficial ports for Xbox and macOS.

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ZZT

ZZT is a 1991 action-adventure puzzle video game and game creation system developed and published by Potomac Computer Systems for MS-DOS.

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.NET Framework

The.NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.

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0 A.D. (video game)

0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy video game under development by Wildfire Games.

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16-bit computing

16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors.

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17-Bit

17-Bit is an independent video game developer.

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32-bit computing

In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units.

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64-bit computing

In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide.

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See also

Video game development software for Linux

• Allegro (software library)
• Audiokinetic Wwise
• C4 Engine
• ClanLib
• CodeXL
• Construct (game engine)
• FMOD
• GDevelop
• GNU Debugger
• Game Editor
• General Graphics Interface
• Godot (game engine)
• LÖVE (game framework)
• LLDB (debugger)
• LWJGL
• Leadwerks
• LibGDX
• Mugen (game engine)
• PhysX
• Platinum Arts Sandbox
• Pygame
• Raylib
• Ren'Py
• SVGALib
• Simple DirectMedia Layer
• Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
• Stencyl
• Unigine
• VOGL
• Video games and Linux
• VkTrace

Video game platforms

• Arcade video game
• Cloud gaming
• Console game
• Exertris
• Game client
• Game server
• Handheld TV game
• Home computers
• Mac gaming
• Mobile game
• Netcode
• PC game
• Personal computers
• Plug It in & Play TV Games
• Rainberry, Inc.
• Video game consoles
• Video games and Linux

Video gaming

• Advergaming
• Buff Technologies
• Cloud gaming
• Heroic Games Launcher
• History of video games
• Interactive fiction
• Neurogaming
• Online console gaming
• Outline of video games
• Playbour
• Race and video games
• Rainway
• Religion and video games
• Video game culture
• Video game development
• Video game emulation
• Video game franchises
• Video game genres
• Video game hardware
• Video game industry
• Video game music
• Video game studies
• Video game terminology
• Video games and Linux
• Video games in Latin America
• Violence and video games
• YoWorld

References

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

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