* Munchkin Cthulhu, the seventh standalone version, released in March 2007, lampoons Lovecraft's Mythos and the horror gaming that surrounds it, summoning classic monsters from outside reality.

In military usage in Spanish and German, a casino or kasino is an officers ' mess ; curiously, in Italian-the source-language of the word-a " casino " is either a brothel, a mess, or a noisy environment, while a gaming house is called a " casinò ".

It is developed by Nexon Corporation with oversight from license-holder Valve Corporation, and is an attempt to increase market share of Valve's games in the Asian gaming market.

In many gaming contexts, especially tabletop RPGs, the count and number of sides of dice to be rolled at any given time is reduced to a common set of notations ; typically these involve the letter " d " for dice.

A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.

It is widely recognized for having popularized the first-person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications via packaged files in a data archive known as " WADs ".

Also, the word gaming is frequently used to describe activities that do not involve wagering, especially online.

There is generally legislation requiring that the odds in gaming devices are statistically random, to prevent manufacturers from making some high-payoff results impossible.

Each gaming system has its own name for the role of the gamemaster, such as " judge ", " narrator ", " referee ", " director ", or " storyteller ", and these terms not only describe the role of the gamemaster in general but also help define how the game is intended to be run.

With the increased costs of good kits moving upward and entertainment competition for youth moving more towards computers and video gaming in the home, the average age of the avid hobbyist is now much older than ever before — with adults making up the vast majority of enthusiasts.

In realtime computer graphics, especially gaming, anti-aliasing is used to remove jaggies created by the edges of polygons and other lines entirely.

" SingOn " is a new type of streaming service that embodies the latest trends of online karaoke, combining gaming features, social media integration and a large catalogue of high-quality songs under the same service.

The term leet is also used as an adjective to describe formidable prowess or accomplishment, especially in the fields of online gaming and in its original usage, computer hacking.

It is now also used to mock newbies, or newcomers, on web sites, or in gaming communities.

This style of game was also historically referred to within the MUD genre as " adventure games ", but video gaming as a whole has developed a meaning of " adventure game " that is greatly at odds with this usage.

Hayes believes that this legal uncertainty is a suboptimal solution and that, though limited and " idiosyncratic ", the Microsoft and Blizzard licenses move towards an ideal video gaming industry standard for handling derivative works.

Nintendo is the world's largest gaming company by revenue.

Although many Native American tribes have casinos, the impact of Native American gaming is widely debated.

The Chinese word pái ( 牌 ) is used to describe both paper cards and gaming tiles.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

With a play by mail game, the players can play whenever they choose, since responses need not be immediate ; this is sometimes referred to as turn-based gaming and is common among browser-based games.

This type of game is typically played at gaming conventions, or in standalone games that do not form part of a campaign.

Another innovative feature was the ability to link 2 MultiSystems together to allow for head-to-head two player gaming.

Genocide ideas were influential in the evolution of player versus player online gaming.

All gaming machines in Victoria have an information screen accessible to the user by pressing the ' i key ' button, showing the game rules, paytable, return to player percentage, and the top and bottom five combinations, with the odds shown.

They were created by Weis and Hickman, then fleshed out as player characters in gaming sessions of Dungeons & Dragons at Hickman's apartment.

One player at this initial gaming session was game designer Terry Phillips, who was playing as Raistlin.

In video gaming, camping is a tactic where a player will obtain a static strategic position of advantage, often providing a clear field of view over a choke point or position of tactical interest whilst retaining cover for the camper.

* Instruction manual ( gaming ), a booklet that instructs the player on how to play the game

In the gaming culture, Fallout: New Vegas features a downloadable content titled " Honest Hearts " where the player travels to a place known as " Zion ".

** in online games, a player who stays in one area of the game world, see camping ( video gaming ).

), pronounced " one up ", is a term in console video gaming that commonly refers to an item that gives the player an extra life, to complete the game.

* Item ( gaming ), the objects in a video game collected by the player character to increase the score or progress through the story

They argue that EA's decisions to hire fake protesters and market games solely on shock value, while neglecting to defend the Medal of Honor on a 1st Amendment basis for letting the player play as the Taliban, have been hurtful to the gaming industry.

Tiger also produces the long lasting I-Dog Interactive Music Companion, the ZoomBox-a portable 3-in-1 home entertainment projector that will play DVDs, CDs and connects to most gaming systems, the VideoNow personal video player, the VCamNow digital camcorder, and the ChatNow line of kid-oriented two-way radios.

At the time of this inception, the primary authoring and media player for the Macintosh-based CD-ROM games was produced by Macromedia Director, and Bandai wanted to deliver this gaming experience to the Asia market, primarily Japan.

It has been a long standing tradition in the gaming industry to add large or progressive jackpots to games that offer weaker returns to the player.

More precisely, playability methods evaluate games to improve design, whereas player experience methods evaluate players to improve gaming.

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

" The document stated that the " aim of the story " involves " a series of betrayals and sudden reversals, to the point where the player is unable to tell fact from fiction " ( departing from the " very clear and understandable story " of its predecessor ), that " every character lies to ( betrays ) someone once ," blurring the line between " what is real, and what is fantasy ," and " ironies aimed at the digital society and gaming culture.

When DisneyQuest was first opened it had a lower admission fee but each attraction and game required a player to swipe a card to pay " credits " for it, and the card could be " recharged " by putting it and some money into a recharging station, similar to Dave & Buster's gaming restaurants.

For example, this could be either a player-character behaving inappropriately within the social-cultural environment depicted by the virtual or gaming environment or the player ceasing to play ( momentarily or entirely ) leaving the character suspended and / or lifeless.

ScrewAttack listed the moment where it's revealed that the player character is Darth Revan as the tenth " OMGWTF " in video gaming.

Unlike previous consoles, the PlayStation 2 could play DVDs, creating additional value for consumers interested in purchasing both a DVD player and gaming console.

Legend of the Five Rings has broken new ground in player interaction in hobby gaming with the Race for the Throne.