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The history of games dates to the ancient human past. [3] Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome ...
Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher. Epic Games develops Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful video game engine" by Guinness World Records. [145]
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...
With sports games generating revenue (more than one billion dollars per year in the U.S. today) and professional gaming competitions, it's easy to forget the industry's humble roots. This video ...
Game studies, also known as ludology (from ludus, "game", and -logia, "study", "research") or gaming theory, is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them. It is a field of cultural studies that deals with all types of games throughout history.
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It seems there are more and more anime games on the shelves these days. With titles like Uniel and Guilty Gear Xrd building hype among the fighting-gamers, and the surge of JRPG's that are now ...
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