third person

en-noun

third person (countable and uncountable, plural third persons)

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(video games) A form of video game in which the graphical view depicts the player character, rather than the view through the character's eyes.


theme

-iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

Theme

computing: collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc.

(film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.


PSP

en-noun

PSP (countable and uncountable, plural PSPs)

PlayStation Portable
w:PlayStation Portable

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation Portable.


trainer

→ Cebuano: trainor
→ English: trainor

I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.

2000, Phil, “I need trainer for version 1.10.021”, in alt.games.rctycoon (Usenet):

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

(video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.


enemy

From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English feend (“enemy”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning.

let the perfect be the enemy of the good

non-player character
non-player character

(video games) A non-player character that tries to harm the player.


tech

en-verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

techs (present singular third-person)
teching (participle present)
teched (participle past)
teched (past)

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

(video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.


health

en-noun

health (usually uncountable, plural healths)

Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole + -th, hale + -th, or heal + -th. More at heal. Doublet of wholth.

The enemies on this level have a lot of health.

Lose a little health and there's a few seconds in which you'll be able to win it back by ragging on an enemy.

2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer:

(video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.

кръв

(video games) amount of damage an in-game object can withstand


gameplay

gameplay (usually uncountable, plural gameplays)

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The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a video game or a board game.


computer game

An electronic game, especially a game played using a general-purpose computer (as opposed to a game console).


infinite

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and Latin infīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -itus. Doublet of infinito. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.

[…] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]

2007, Adam Deats, Joe Epstein, Virtua Fighter 5, page 14:

(video games) A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.


game console

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drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

piisk

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

piisk

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) item dropped by a defeated enemy

langemine

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level

(online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.


role-playing video game

en-noun

role-playing video game (plural role-playing video games)

(video games) A genre of video game that uses gameplay elements found in a paper-and-pencil role-playing game, such as character classes and leveling up.


gamer

→ Bulgarian: геймър (gejmǎr)

→ Danish: gamer

→ Dutch: gamer

→ French: gamer

→ Georgian: გეიმერი (geimeri)

→ German: Gamer

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: قيمر (gēmar), گيمر (gēmar)

→ Japanese: ゲーマー (gēmā)

→ Korean: 게이머 (geimeo)

→ Macedonian: ге́јмер (géjmer)

→ Persian: گیمر (geymer)

→ Portuguese: gamer, guêimer

→ Russian: ге́ймер (géjmer)

→ Spanish: gamer

→ Swedish: gamer

→ Ukrainian: ге́ймер (héjmer), ґе́ймер (géjmer)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *gamaną
Proto-West Germanic *gaman
Old English gamen
Middle English game
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -er
Middle English gamer
English gamer
From Middle English gamer, attested since before 1450 as a common noun and possibly since 1248 in the name of one Johannes le Gamer. Equivalent to game (noun) + -er (occupational suffix).

etymon

That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […]

2019, The Scottish Parliament, Motion S5M-15504 https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5M-15504&ResultsPerPage=10

A person who plays any kind of game.
A person whose hobby is video games.


stage

→ Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

cog

How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?

(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.


hat

Sranan Tongo: ati

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

cog

The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:


frag

I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!

Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got so many frags.

2004 August 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #111: other days”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Homestar Runner (Matthew Chapman):

(video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.


frag

en-verb

frag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)

frags (present singular third-person)
fragging (participle present)
fragged (participle past)
fragged (past)

I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.

(transitive, military and video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.

I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.

1996, Martin Cox, “Stupid frags ...”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet):

tappaa

to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game


cab

(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.


bonus

en-noun

bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or (nonstandard) boni)

bonuses (plural)
bonusses (plural)
boni (nonstandard plural)

→ Danish: bonus

→ French: bonus

→ German: Bonus

→ Portuguese: bónus, bônus (Brazil)

→ Japanese: ボーナス (bōnasu)

→ Turkish: bonus

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.

Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25

(video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.


gib

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.


gib

en-verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

gibs (present singular third-person)
gibbing (participle present)
gibbed (participle past)
gibbed (past)

(transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.


kit

en-noun

kit (countable and uncountable, plural kits)

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.
The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.

der

(video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.


spawn

en-verb

spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)

spawns (present singular third-person)
spawning (participle present)
spawned (participle past)
spawned (past)

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).

der

We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.

(ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

生成

to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time


spawn

en-noun

spawn (countable and uncountable, plural spawn or spawns)

From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).

потомък

any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring


delete

en-verb

delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)

deletes (present singular third-person)
deleting (participle present)
deleted (participle past)
deleted (past)

→ Portuguese: deletar, delete

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. Computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.

Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.

2020 November 20, “Enhance Arena positioning”, in Blizzard Forums (US):

(online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.


cap

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

caps (present singular third-person)
capping (participle present)
capped (participle past)
capped (past)

Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done

2007 November 20, Greg Haupt, “LvUrFR3NZ”, in Halo 3 Original Soundtrack, performed by Princeton, Sumthing Else Music Works:

(transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.


wave

From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“wave, flood, sea”), German Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Germanic), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “a wave”). See also waw.

cog

As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.

2011, Raffaele Cecco, Supercharged JavaScript Graphics: With HTML5 Canvas and jQuery:

(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.


badge

→ Japanese: バッジ (bajji)

→ Korean: 배지 (baeji)

From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”).

cog

When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.

(Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.


SOB

en-noun

SOB (countable and uncountable, plural SOBs)

(speedrunning) Initialism of sum of best.


clan

→ Catalan: clan

→ Danish: klan

→ Dutch: clan

→ French: clan
→ Turkish: klan

→ Galician: clan

→ German: Clan

→ Italian: clan

→ Norwegian Bokmål: klan

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: klan

→ Polish: klan

→ Russian: клан (klan)

→ Portuguese: clan, clã

→ Spanish: clan

→ Swedish: klan

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.

отог

group of relatives with some degree of political organization

(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.


GBA

(video games) Initialism of Game Boy Advance.


tycoon

Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon; cf. Street Fighter and later fighter (“game with a focus on physical combat”)).

Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.

Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind:

Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades.

2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, →ISBN, page 172:

In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks.

2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 65:

In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn! The main tips are to keep the tycoon simple and stick with a theme.

2019, Roblox Guide to Success and Dominating the World of Roblox, Ro Books, →ISBN, page 13:

These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing. Updating these experiences can be a more difficult task, depending on how your tycoon is structured.

2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217:

“What should we play? Adopt Me, a tycoon, SCP, an obby?”

2022, Jessica Stone, Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:

The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons.

2022, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World!, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 153:

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games) A subgame within the massively multiplayer online game Roblox, involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand.


lapis

Lapis, opal, &c. are poliſh'd on a wooden wheel. To faſhion and Engrave vaſes of agate, cryſtal, lapis, or the like, they make uſe of a kind of lathe like that us'd by pewterers, excepting that as the pewterers lathe holds the veſſels, which are to be wrought with proper tools; that of the Engraver generally holds the tools which are turn'd by a wheel, and the veſſels held to them to be cut and engraven either in relievo or otherwiſe; [...]

1735, [John Barrow], “ENGRAVING”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:

French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.

1923 (reprinted 1993), Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923 (Franklin Simon & Co, New York), item number 53

That lapis lazuli in particular among the precious and semi-precious stones known from Mesopotamia was accorded considerable value in antiquity may be inferred from the archaeological record through association with high-status locii and goods. [...] deities receive votive gifts and booty of lapis, consisting of items of personal adornment and cult objects, while their temples are described as decorated with lapis or shining like lapis. [...] For example, the contents of the graves in the Royal Cemetery of Ur: [...] various objects employing inlay that include lapis among the insets, [...] Mari sent an emissary to acquire lapis from Lars.

2010, Irene Winter, editor, On Art in the Ancient Near East: From the Third Millennium B.C.E., page 291:

The buddha lands described in the Lotus share certain generic features: the ground is made of lapis or crystal; they are perfectly level, without mountains or valleys; they are free from all manner of filth, including the stench of latrines [...] The ground was made of lapis lazuli, [...]

2011, Daniel Boscaljon, Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative, page 99:


mobile game

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(video games) An electronic game played using a cellular phone.


joystick

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

unk

unclear

If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.


sweaty

en-adj

sweaty (comparative sweatier, superlative sweatiest)

sweatier (comparative)
sweatiest (superlative)

From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

Watch out for that sweaty team.

The YouTuber delved deeper into his goals, claiming: "I want to do sweaty, try hard FPS gaming from the toilet."

2022 August 3, Terry Oh, “YouTuber turns toilet into gaming PC for when duty calls”, in Dexerto:

(video games, slang) Extremely (and possibly inappropriately) obsessed with winning.

I stick to casual because ranked lobbies are way too sweaty.

The mode caters to competitive players by offering increased health and larger lobby sizes. However, some players argue the game mode is extremely "sweaty."

(video games, slang) Attracting many extremely competitive players.


technical

en-noun

technical (countable and uncountable, plural technicals)

From Late Latin technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”).

(video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.


cheat

→ Dutch: cheat

→ French: cheat

→ German: Cheat

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex + cadere (“fall”).

I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32:

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.


camp

en-verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

camps (present singular third-person)
camping (participle present)
camped (participle past)
camped (past)

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.
The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

inh

Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

(intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.

דָּגַר

to stay in an advantageous location in a video game

The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.

Go and camp the flag for the win.

(transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.

(transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp.


camper

first-person shooting
first-person shooter

(video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.

kämppäri

video games: person who stays in one spot


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.

When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]

Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though.

1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) in Crash (issue 2, pages 73-74)

The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.

1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) in Crash (issue 18, page 104)

(dated, video games) A stage or location in a video game.


mat

I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.

Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.

2019 October 24, Christopher Groux, “'Fortnite' Weapon Upgrade Guide - Upgrade Bench Locations & More”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-30:

While there are game modes where you can build without any requirements, you'll need to harvest materials to build in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials.

[2020 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-05-21:

Fortnite added a new trap with the Armored Wall reinforcement for mats and one viral TikTok showed just how deadly the new item can be in a close fight.

2021 September 25, Alan Bernal, “Viral Fortnite TikTok trick shows how to use Armored Walls for easy kills”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

The looper goes on laying more than a thousand mats in thirty seconds. He finally reaches his opponent, who is easily brought down with a shell of a shotgun and a burst of an SMG. Upon eliminating the opponent, he is ecstatic in celebration.

2022 July 16, Sarthak Chauhan, “Fortnite YouTuber using 1000 mats in less than 30 seconds shows exactly what not to do”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

(video games, slang, chiefly Fortnite, in the plural) Clipping of material.


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down.

2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints:

(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.


ninja

Enter the Ninja
Eric Van Lustbader
Hokusai Manga
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ninja

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

I had TOTK running on my pc 2 weeks before it released on the switch and I'm still here. They can send the ninjas, I'm waiting.

Nintendo ninjas were inside the discord, watching. Now all the Yuzu devs have turned over all electronic devices, websites, logs...

2024 March 5, @HikikomoriMedia, Twitter:

(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

(video games, fandom slang, in the plural) A notional draconian arm of a corporation (originally Nintendo), tasked with dealing with individuals that infringe on its rights or do not comply with its regulations.


ninja

en-verb

ninja (third-person singular simple present ninjas, present participle ninjaing, simple past and past participle ninjaed or ninja'd)

ninjas (present singular third-person)
ninjaing (participle present)
ninjaed (participle past)
ninjaed (past)
ninja'd (participle past)
ninja'd (past)

That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!

(online gaming slang) To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.


kite

kite (third-person singular simple present kites, present participle kiting, simple past and past participle kited)

kites (present singular third-person)
kiting (participle present)
kited (participle past)
kited (past)

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

извисявам

to cause (something) to move upwards rapidly

To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.

If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.

2001, Juanita Jones, Everquest Player’s Guide: Prima’s Official Strategy Guide, Roseville, Calif.: Prima Games, →ISBN, page 70:

The wind kited us toward shore.

It was mere happenstance that the Weston meteor kited across the sky on December 14, 1807, the same day President [Thomas] Jefferson's Non-Importation Act, which restricted trade with Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, went into effect.

2010, Cathryn J. Prince, “The Misquote Heard Round the World”, in A Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 130:

In the distance creatures on leathery wings kited across the sky, lofted by thermal winds.

2019, Amy J. Murphy, chapter 13, in Pat Dobie, editor, Allies and Enemies: Legacy (Allies and Enemies; book 4), [s.l.]: Amy J. Murphy:

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).


simulation

en-noun

simulation (countable and uncountable, plural simulations)

→ Japanese: シミュレーション (shimyurēshon)

First attested in 1340 as Middle English symulacioun, from Middle French simulation, from Old French simulation/simulacion, from Latin simulātiōnem, from simulō (“imitate”).
Morphologically simulate + -ion.

Some kids in the classroom will be playing simulations after school.

(video games) A video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.


RP

RP (countable and uncountable, plural RPs)

(video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.


loot

→ Portuguese: loot

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

poen

slang: money, especially illicitly acquired

Loot, plunder, pillage.

He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.

1839, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, page 104:

Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.

1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9, volume II, page 340:

The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.

1862, Walter F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, volume II, page 505:

India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22

The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.

Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.


loot

en-verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

loots (present singular third-person)
looting (participle present)
looted (participle past)
looted (past)

⇒ Portuguese: lootear

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder

1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66:

The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.

On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.

1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483:

We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.

(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.


hacker

From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

hacker

one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems

ха́кер

one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

hakkuri

something that hacks; device or tool for hacking

PUBG Mobile has seen more than its fair share of hackers, with Tencent banning millions of players every week for cheating.

2021 June 27, Wasif Ahmed, “Tencent Banned over 3.8 Million Hackers in PUBG Mobile Last Week”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-06-03:

Cheaters continue to plague Fortnite, as Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins and Jack 'CouRage' Dunlop have run into a hacker using fly-mode and aimbot, completely destroying and leaving both popular streamers speechless.

2022 January 11, Samed Kadirogullari, “Fortnite’s Flying Hackers Leave Ninja & CouRage Speechless”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-01-11:

The server is certainly not for everyone. Gamers need to be prepared to deal with many hackers, trolls, and griefers. However, those looking for a unique Minecraft experience might just find it on 2b2t.

2022 March 9, Edward Hays, “10 best Minecraft servers to play in 2022”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

While a patch was rolled out that's given Diamond, Master, and Predator competitors protection against DDoSing, players still want Respawn to do more about the abundance of hackers.

2023 January 30, Alex Garton, “Apex Legends Dev Confirms Even More Anti-cheat Improvements Coming in Season 16”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.

(by extension, video games, slang) Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.

hakkeri

someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game


perk

(video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.


guardian

→ Japanese: ガーディアン (gādian)

/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.

1993, Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold, Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2:

'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'

(video games) A major or final enemy; boss.


level

en-noun

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

→ German: Level

→ Irish: leibhéal

desctree

→ Japanese: レベル (reberu)
→ Korean: 레벨 (rebel)

→ Welsh: lefel

From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau.
The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.

It took me weeks to get to level seven. Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.

(video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.

My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.

(roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.

級

gaming: numeric value for something or someone's experience and power


level

en-verb

level (third-person singular simple present levels, present participle (US) leveling or levelling, simple past and past participle (US) leveled or levelled)

levels (present singular third-person)
leveling (US participle present)
levelling (participle present)
leveled (US participle past)
leveled (US past)
levelled (participle past)
levelled (past)

I levelled after defeating the dragon.

(roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.


lag

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

lags (present singular third-person)
lagging (participle present)
lagged (participle past)
lagged (past)

→ Swedish: lagga

My phone is starting to lag.

(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.


melee

melee (third-person singular simple present melees, present participle meleeing, simple past and past participle meleed)

melees (present singular third-person)
meleeing (participle present)
meleed (participle past)
meleed (past)

Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.

(video games, slang) To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.


conquest

en-noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

From Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste (French conquête).

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

lipunvaltaus

competitive mode in first-person shooter games


team

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

cog

(video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.


hub

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.

In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.

2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:

(video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.


scrim

As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.

2016, Blog of Legends, "The Gap hasn’t closed: Comparing the LCS and LCK at Worlds"

(online gaming) A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.


scrim

en-verb

scrim (third-person singular simple present scrims, present participle scrimming, simple past and past participle scrimmed)

scrims (present singular third-person)
scrimming (participle present)
scrimmed (participle past)
scrimmed (past)

Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.

2016, The Inquirer, The EE Blog: EternalEnvy Accuses Former Team, Team Secret, of Delayed Payments and Monetary Indiscretion:

(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.


pew

(video games, childish) Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun, particularly a blaster in science fiction.


mod

en-noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.

2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Random House, →ISBN:

(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

Mod

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.

(video games) To install or create a mod.


fatality

[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.


crater

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

craters (present singular third-person)
cratering (participle present)
cratered (participle past)
cratered (past)

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).


gimp

Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.

(video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.


gimp

en-verb

gimp (third-person singular simple present gimps, present participle gimping, simple past and past participle gimped)

gimps (present singular third-person)
gimping (participle present)
gimped (participle past)
gimped (past)

(transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


pug

(online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”)


molly

Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.

2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-08-11:

(video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.


gap

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

gaps (present singular third-person)
gapping (participle present)
gapped (participle past)
gapped (past)

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game

2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments

2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"

2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.

2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing

2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping

2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

(transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.


grief

en-verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

griefs (present singular third-person)
griefing (participle present)
griefed (participle past)
griefed (past)

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

der

While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:

(online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.

inh

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:

(gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.

玩家

video games: gamer, gamester — see also gamer, gamester


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

der

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

(video games) A similar device used as a game controller.


slime

en-noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

→ French: slime

→ Japanese: スライム (suraimu)

→ Korean: 슬라임 (seullaim)

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

der

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


assrun

en-verb

assrun (third-person singular simple present assruns, present participle assrunning, simple past assran, past participle assrun)

assruns (present singular third-person)
assrunning (participle present)
assran (past)
assrun (participle past)

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From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s.

One of your players assran me at every opportunity.

You were assrunning for the whole game.

(US, video games, slang) To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind.


beastmaster

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(video games) A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.

role-playing video game
role-playing video game

(video games) A role-playing video game character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.


stack

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From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), which per Kroonen (arguing for the controversial Kluge's law) is from *stogʰ-nós, cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος (stokhos), but unclear whether he derives *stogʰ-nós from a Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Per Pokorny et al., from PIE *(s)teg- (“stake, pole, rod, stick, beam”) and cognate with Latin tignum ("tree trunk, beam, log"), but not cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος.
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

der

I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.


telegraph

André François Miot de Mélito
Claude Chappe
telegraph
telegraph (disambiguation)

Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).

af

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.


stacked

en-adj

stacked (comparative more stacked, superlative most stacked)

more stacked (comparative)
most stacked (superlative)

The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.

2021 July 23, Eve Peyser, “U.S. Men's Basketball Had a Rocky Tokyo Olympics Start. I'm Still Excited.”, in New York Magazine:

(sports, video games, of a team) Having many skilled players.

(title)

2022 January 2, Carvs, “I Killed a Stacked Player Using 117 Ravagers...”, in YouTube:

(video games) Having a large advantage as a result of accumulating many items and upgrades.


SF

(video games) Initialism of Street Fighter.


paddle

en-noun

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


MUD

multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon#English

(video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.

Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.

Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).


summon

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).

Conjuration magic in Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to summon a variety of helpful creatures […] These summons can assist players in combat and exploration, providing strategic advantages with their unique abilities.

2023 October 30, Nyah Payne, “Baldur's Gate 3: Best Summons, Ranked”, in Gamerant:

(video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.


simmer

(informal, video games) Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.


tipster

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Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.

Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.

1994, “Amiga Power”, in magazine, number 42:

Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).

1995, Stephen Smith, “Zub - Hidden Game?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(video games, informal) One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.


ez

LOL too ez. ur so bad

Just use a courier to send your phone/laptop back every once a week it's that ez ¶ /s

2023 February 1, @Dooter18769429, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

this game is too ez

2023 November 13, @6klvs, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

(text messaging, especially video games) Abbreviation of easy.


deathmatch

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

The player continued to describe their own experience with deathmatch, explaining sometimes it takes several minutes for the deathmatch to load — meaning by the time they spawn, the game is almost over.

2023 August 5, Shay Robson, “Valorant players plead with Riot for overdue Deathmatch rework”, in Dexerto:

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.


deathmatch

en-verb

deathmatch (third-person singular simple present deathmatches, present participle deathmatching, simple past and past participle deathmatched)

deathmatches (present singular third-person)
deathmatching (participle present)
deathmatched (participle past)
deathmatched (past)

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!

(video games, transitive) To compete against in a deathmatch.

(video games, intransitive) To take part in deathmatch gaming.


mon

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.

1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136:

(historical) The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.


mon

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

Ee I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee.

1974, “A Mon Like Thee”, in Best o't' Bunch, performed by The Oldham Tinkers:

I am a Black Country mon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.

2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole:

(slang) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica, and Lancashire, Shropshire and the Black Country in England.


mon

Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.

Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...

2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.

2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.

2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.

Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...

2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned^([sic]) of it :-)

2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):

At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.

2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.


item

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".

(by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.

寶物

video games: object that can be picked up for later use


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil), poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

(slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.


stun

en-verb

stun (third-person singular simple present stuns, present participle stunning, simple past and past participle stunned)

stuns (present singular third-person)
stunning (participle present)
stunned (participle past)
stunned (past)

From Middle English stunien, stonien, stounien, from Old English stunian (“to crash, make a loud sound, resound, roar, strike with a loud sound, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn, from Proto-Germanic *stunōną, *stunjaną (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tona-, *(s)tena- (“to thunder, roar, groan”) (compare thunder). Cognate with Middle Low German stonen (“to groan”), Middle High German stunen, stunden (“to drive, push, knock, strike”), Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”). Related also to Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”). See also Occitan estonar, Old French estoner, English astonish.

cog

The monsters stun when you jump on them.

(intransitive, video games) To enter a stunned state.


selfish

en-adj

selfish (comparative more selfish or (proscribed) selfisher, superlative most selfish or (proscribed) selfishest)

more selfish (comparative)
selfisher (comparative proscribed)
most selfish (superlative)
selfishest (proscribed superlative)

From self + -ish. Compare Danish selvisk (“selfish”), Swedish självisk (“selfish”).

With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.

(video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.


continue

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.

2008, Jeannie Novak, Luis Levy, Play the Game: The Parent's Guide to Video Games, →ISBN, page 48:

Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.

2012, James A. Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, →ISBN, page 128:

(video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

(video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(video games) A shoulder button on a gamepad.


guild

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.

(video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.


chunk

chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)

chunks (present singular third-person)
chunking (participle present)
chunked (participle past)
chunked (past)

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).

He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.

(transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.


LP

en-noun

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.


portable

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[ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]

Borrowed from Middle French portable, or from Latin portabilis.

siirrettävä rakennus

temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school

(video games) A hand-held video gaming device.


idle

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).


athletic

en-adj

athletic (comparative more athletic, superlative most athletic)

more athletic (comparative)
most athletic (superlative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.
Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō)
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētikós)bor.
Latin āthlēticuslbor.
French athlétiquebor.
English athletic
From French athlétique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete.

der

Are you a member of the American Athletic Association?

(not comparable) Having to do with athletes.

An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks.

2018, Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, Milwaukie: Dark Horse, →OCLC, page 65:

Mario levels are usually indicated to belong to one of five types (overworld, underground, athletic, castle, underwater)². The type determines the aesthetic style of the level, but also affects the challenges that are posed. For example, athletic levels usually contain platforms that are spaced far apart, as well as moving platforms. They thus require precise and timed jumps to traverse.

2019, S. M. Lucas, V. Volz, “Tile pattern KL-divergence for analysing and evolving game levels”, in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, page 171:

(video games) Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.


athletic

A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.


UE

(video games) Initialism of Unreal Engine.


teabag

en-verb

teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

teabags (present singular third-person)
teabagging (participle present)
teabagged (participle past)
teabagged (past)

The good news is, you don't have to play 10,000 matches to learn to hold your own against those obnoxious, teabagging 9-year-olds anymore!

(video games) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead.


casual

/ˈkɛʒ(ʉː)əl/

From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin cāsuālis (“happening by chance”), from Latin cāsus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”) (whence English cadence).

der

The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it.

(video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.


FPS

first-person shooter
first-person shooter#English

(video games) Initialism of first-person shooter.


vault

en-verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

vaults (present singular third-person)
vaulting (participle present)
vaulted (participle past)
vaulted (past)

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). Doublet of volute.

In future updates, most likely in season six, more items will get vaulted.

2018 August 31, Steven Asarch, “'Fortnite' Developer Update 5.40: Storm Destruction, Revolver in Vault”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-03:

While vaulting some old content may turn off a few players, Bungie seems intent on bringing as many players under its tent as possible first.

2020 June 9, Gene Park, “Bungie is finally coming through with its old promise of a 10-year ’Destiny’ plan”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-09:

Blizzard will vault the gorgeous Hanamura and other Assault maps from Overwatch's competitive mode when 'Overwatch 2' arrives.

2021 February 19, Kris Holt, “Overwatch 2 Will Ditch The Widely Disliked Assault/2CP Maps”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:

While some mistakes have resulted in Riot pulling Agents in the past, those changes were always temporary. If Riot is set on having only seven maps in the "Valorant," that likely means Split isn't coming back and more maps will get vaulted in the future.

2022 June 17, James Carr, “The Real Reason Valorant Is Dropping Its Oldest Map”, in SVG.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:

(video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.


proxy

(Make sure you don't move!! Might trigger a proxy..!)

2001, "TripleRaid", Perfect Dark: Glitch FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198275/7974

the only means the Protectors have of delaying is by laying mines and Sentry Guns, and the Runners can only use the Magnums to blow up Proxies and Sentries.

2001, "CyricZ", Perfect Dark: FAQ/Walkthrough http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198275/8052

Usually, the only reason I play in Yoshi's Island is to have fun with the clouds - put proxies on them, taunt from them, whatever.

2002, "yc", Super Smash Bros.: Kirby http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198854/9449

You can also walk with your gun out, as this will limit your speed, allowing you do evade the proxies.

2006, "eatyourmumshead", Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Online Mode FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924556/43994

(video games slang) Short for proximity mine.


Back-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category.
The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.

100% ― 100% of the game must be completed

any% ― any percentage completion is permitted

low% ― the lowest possible completion is required

(speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.

P% ― requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify

Gears% ― gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)

(speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.


backport

backport (third-person singular simple present backports, present participle backporting, simple past and past participle backported)

backports (present singular third-person)
backporting (participle present)
backported (participle past)
backported (past)

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(also video games) To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.


genocide

en-noun

genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)

Armenian genocide
Terminology of the Armenian genocide
The Holocaust
genocide

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus) + -cide (“killing, killer”). Doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.

der

I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.

2000, Kimmo Kasila, “Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help!”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

(video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.


intrinsic

From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).

You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.

(video games) An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.


AFK

I'm gonna go AFK in a few mins

(military, video games, Internet slang) Initialism of away from keyboard (that is, away from one's computer; idle)


console

Borrowed from French console (“bracket”, noun), from consoler (“to console, to comfort”, verb).
Sense of “bracket” either due to a bracket alleviating the load, or due to brackets being decorated with the Christian figure of a consolateur (“consoler”), itself perhaps a pun on the first sense (alleviating load).
Originally used for the bracket itself, then for wall-mounted tables (mounted with a bracket), then for free-standing tables placed against a wall. Use for control system dates at least to 1880s for an “organ console”; use for electrical or electronic control systems dates at least to 1930s in radio, television, and system control, particularly as “mixer console” or “control console”, attached to an equipment rack. This was popularized in computers by mainframes such as the IBM 704 (1954) in terms such as “operator’s console” or “console typewriter”, and then generalized to any attached equipment, particularly for user interaction. The automotive sense harks back to earlier use as “support”.

An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.

(video games) A consumer device dedicated to playing video games, with the ability to change games.

конзола

video games: device dedicated to playing video games


Easter egg

/ˈiː.stəɹ ˌɛɡ/

Adventure (1980 video game)#Easter_egg
Easter egg

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei).
So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.)
The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.

gloss

"Easter egg"; > modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Osterei</i>

an Easter egg that displays the names of the application's development team

Once found, the Easter egg will often enable the player to traverse through the game much more rapidly the second time around.

2011, Myint Swe Khine, Learning to Play: Exploring the Future of Education with Video Games, page 59:

(computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.

ou de pasqua

an undocumented function hidden in a program


HOT

en-noun

HOT (countable and uncountable, plural HOTs)

(video games) Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes


toon

Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

(informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.


sweeper

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

(video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.


skip

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.


blink

en-verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

(science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.


blink

en-noun

blink (countable and uncountable, plural blinks)

(video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances


one up

If you hit that block, you can get a one up.

(video games) Alternative spelling of 1-up (“extra life”)


mob

You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.

2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.


cripple

en-verb

cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)

cripples (present singular third-person)
crippling (participle present)
crippled (participle past)
crippled (past)

From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

der

(slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.


gank

en-verb

gank (third-person singular simple present ganks, present participle ganking, simple past and past participle ganked)

ganks (present singular third-person)
ganking (participle present)
ganked (participle past)
ganked (past)

Our group totally ganked this guy.

(transitive, Internet, online gaming, slang) To kill much weaker players in an online video game in such a way that they cannot defend themselves.


roleplaying game

en-noun

roleplaying game (plural roleplaying games)

joc de rol

type of game in which the players assume the role of a character

massively multiplayer online role-playing game

(video games) A type of computer game where the player takes the role of a character or party, normally lacking tests of physical skill and including more story-telling and narrative aspects than traditional action games.


bg

(online gaming slang) Initialism of bad game.


collision

collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)

From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collīsiō, from Latin collīdere, past participle collīsus (“to dash together”); see collide. cf. allision.

collision detection
collision detection#English

(computing, chiefly video games) Clipping of collision detection; tangibility.


whiff

en-verb

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

whiffs (present singular third-person)
whiffing (participle present)
whiffed (participle past)
whiffed (past)

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).

inh

(video games) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.


free-for-all

/ˈfɹiːfəɹɔːl/

/ˈfɹiːfɚɔːl/

(video games) Deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others.


dashboard

/ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

/ˈdæʃˌboəɹd/

/ˈdæʃˌbɔːɹd/

From dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.

compound

Log in to the dashboard to change your account settings.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, video games) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard.

paneelbord

panel under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft


jumper

This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.

2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 161:

(video games) A platform game based around jumping.


RTA

en-noun

RTA (countable and uncountable, plural RTAs)

real-time attack
real-time attack#English

(video games, speedrunning) Initialism of real-time attack.


unlock

From Middle English unloken, unlouken, onlouken, from Old English onlūcan (“to unlock”), equivalent to un- + lock. Cognate with Dutch ontluiken (“to unlock”).

The other unlocks, like a grenade launcher or a sniper's steady ability, didn't fit into my playstyle.

2012 October 11, Craig Pearson, “Hands On: Medal Of Honour Warfighter”, in Rock Paper Shotgun:

(video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement.


HP

HP (countable and uncountable, plural HPs or HP)

Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.

If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.

1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

(video games, mostly role-playing games) Hit points; health points.


underworld

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In the underworld theme, low notes create a darker feeling that matches the cave setting. This song also creates a sense of continuity across early Mario games, since it's a remix of SMB1's original underworld theme.

2016, Alyse Knorr, Super Mario Bros. 3: Boss Fight Books #13:

(video games) The portion of a game that is set below ground.


controller

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). By surface analysis, control + -er.

I'm collecting player's names for a school project. You know, players just like you! That's right, you--the one holding the controller. Would you register your name, please?

(video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.

controller

video games: hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games


cc

en-verb

cc (third-person singular simple present cc's, present participle cc'ing, simple past and past participle cc'ed or cc'd or cc:d)

cc's (present singular third-person)
cc'ing (participle present)
cc'ed (participle past)
cc'ed (past)
cc'd (participle past)
cc'd (past)
cc:d (participle past)
cc:d (past)

Just cc him, bro.

(video games, transitive) Initialism of crowd control.


shimmy

shimmy (third-person singular simple present shimmies, present participle shimmying, simple past and past participle shimmied)

shimmies (present singular third-person)
shimmying (participle present)
shimmied (participle past)
shimmied (past)

A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).

Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.

2009, Allison Schubert, Lunabean.com's Videogame Guides of 2008: Adventure 3-Pack:

Climb on top of the room and drop down to shimmy along its back ledge.

1999, Prima Development, The Big PlayStation Book:

(intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.


frame rate

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The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per second (often abbreviated "fps") or, equivalently, hertz (Hz).

幀率

measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce frames


legendary

From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.


rolling

(video games, NES Tetris) A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.


MMORPG

massively multiplayer online role-playing game#English

(online gaming) Initialism of massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

MMORPG

abbreviation of video game type — see also massively multiplayer online role-playing game


stats

Those items he bought really boosted his stats.

(roleplaying games, video games slang) Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output)


EA

(video games) Initialism of Electronic Arts.


meta

en-noun

meta (countable and uncountable, plural metas)

Clipping of metagame. Folk etymology also suggests an initialism of most efficient tactic available.

I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.


meta

en-adj

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

more meta (comparative)
most meta (superlative)

I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.

(video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.


Doom

Origin […] have used the canvas of a Doom-like first-person 3-D engine to paint a master work of their own in this comic-book action game.

1996 May 1, Jeffrey Adam Young, “CyberMage: Darklight Awakening Review”, in GameSpot:

(video games) A popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the progenitor of the genre.


Peach

* As an English surname, from French péché (“sin”). Compare Peachey, Petch.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Pietsch.

(video games) The princess in the Mario franchise.


Pong

A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich!

2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows game programming gurus, page 10:

If the US invades Iraq, we'll see action all right, much more than we witnessed with the primitive Pong-ish effects delivered during Gulf War 1.0,

2003 March 1, “Gulf War 2.0: The Son Strikes Back”, in Toronto Star:

The paddle controllers are necessary for playing Pong-style contests, and since two paddles share one controller input you can easily play doubles Pong with an extra set of paddles.

2006, Chris Kohler, Retro gaming hacks, page 10:

(video games) An early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.


Genesis

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “creation, beginning, origin”).

der

(Canada, US, video games) A video game console, the Sega Genesis.


COD

"Let's go over to my house and play some CoD," he said.


TC

This is the best Total Conversion we have seen of any game. Given that it is a TC of Gorefest, the reigning blockbuster, this means that Skullpulper is now the best 3D game in the world. Period.

1999 August, Marc Laidlaw, “Total Conversion”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, page 85:

It may have started its existence as a TC, but the final product is as inspired and as polished as anything you could hope for.

2000 November, “Gunman Chronicles”, in PC Zone, page 80:

One of the more interesting is Speed Island - a TC that turns Vice City into a stunt island.

2004 October, “Community Chest: Grand Theft Auto”, in PC Zone, page 114:

total conversion
total conversion#English

(video games) Initialism of total conversion.


gg

/d͡ʒiːd͡ʒiː/

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good game.

Nature's Prophet going to get the last hit in as well. It's the entire team down for EHOME. This is GG.

2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), spoken by Announcer:

(online gaming slang, by extension) loss, defeat, game over


PK

en-noun

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

(video games, roleplaying games) Initialism of player kill(er/ing).