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  3. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    From mobile and free-to-play games, gacha games had grown popular in Japan by the early 2010s, based on the capsule toy vending machine concept, with the earliest known system being in MapleStory. In-game, players would earn currency that they could use to earn a random draw from a set of items based on a preset rarities, often with the goal to ...

  4. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    The practice of creating a game using 'free' art and audio assets, either from an online marketplace or the default stock of assets included with many game engines. Asset-flips are often of very poor quality designed to catch onto a currently popular theme to turn a quick profit. It mimics the practice of flipping in real estate markets.

  5. List of Doom ports - Wikipedia

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    The present article is a list of known platforms to which Doom has been confirmed to be ported.. Doom is one of the most widely ported video games. [1] Since the original MS-DOS version, it has been released officially for a number of operating systems, video game consoles, handheld game consoles, and other devices.

  6. Video games and Linux - Wikipedia

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    Doom was one of the first major commercial games to be released for Linux.. The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when Dave D. Taylor ported the game Doom to Linux, as well as many other systems, during his spare time.

  7. Grinding (video games) - Wikipedia

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    For some games, grinding is an integral part of the gameplay and is required if the player wants to make significant progress. In some cases, progression may be entirely negated if the player does not grind enough, for example an area necessary for the story may be locked until a certain action is repeated a certain amount of time to prove the experience of the player.

  8. Video game culture - Wikipedia

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    Video game culture or gaming culture a worldwide subculture formed by video game enthusiasts. As video games have grown more sophisticated, accessible, and popular over time, they have significantly influenced popular culture, particularly among adolescents and young adults.

  9. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The new driver model facilitates the new Desktop Window Manager, which provides the tearing-free desktop and special effects that are the cornerstones of Windows Aero. Direct3D 10, developed in conjunction with major graphics card manufacturers, is a new architecture with more advanced shader support, and allows the graphics processing unit to ...