PlayStation 3 - Games. The PlayStation 3 will be compatible "on the chip" with PlayStation 2 and PlayStation games, without emulation. It still isn't known how Sony has achieved this (although Sony had developed a single-chip PS2 CPU/GPU solution, used in newer revisions of the "slim" PS2). Compatibility with PS2 online games and games designed for the hard drive support hasn't been elaborated upon. In a recent interview Ken Kutaragi stated that backwards compatibility will be ...

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PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3 - History, PlayStation 3 - Cost and release date, PlayStation 3 - Manufacturing Costs, PlayStation 3 - Hardware specifications, PlayStation 3 - Central processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Graphics processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Memory, PlayStation 3 - Theoretical system bandwidth, PlayStation 3 - Overall floating-point capability, PlayStation 3 - Audio/video output, PlayStation 3 - Storage, PlayStation 3 - Physical dimensions, PlayStation 3 - Communications, PlayStation 3 - Controller, PlayStation 3 - Miscellaneous, PlayStation 3 - Games in development, PlayStation 3 - Software development kit, PlayStation 3 - GNU/Linux, PlayStation 3 - Online services, PlayStation 3 - Region Coding, PlayStation 3 - Backwards compatibility, PlayStation 3 - Games, PlayStation 3 - Peripherals, PlayStation 3 - Gallery, PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery, PlayStation 3 - Side Note

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The game falls into the subgenres of an advergame, serious game and militainment. America's Army has been developed since 2000 and still changes through add-ons and patches. The PC version can be found as a download on the Internet or at U.S. Army recruiting centers. The gameplay is similar to that of Counter-Strike, a Half-Life modification and the most widely played online first-person shooter at the time and for the past few years. Professor Michael Zyda, the director and founder of the MOVES Institute, acknowl ...

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America's Army, America's Army - Overview, America's Army - History, America's Army - Gameplay, America's Army - Controversy, America's Army - Cultural Impact, America's Army - Similar games, America's Army - Ideological counterparts, America's Army - Serious Games encouraging non-violent conflict solutions, America's Army - Literature

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The logo of the PlayStation 3 is in the same font as the logo of the Spider Man motion pictures. Spider-Man 2 scenes were used in the E3 2005 Sony Press Conference demonstrating the console's capabilities. It is rumored that Sony will use the Spider-Man franchise and the upcoming Spider-Man 3 to promote the PlayStation 3 in the United States and Europe in 2006/2007 ...

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PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3 - History, PlayStation 3 - Cost and release date, PlayStation 3 - Manufacturing Costs, PlayStation 3 - Hardware specifications, PlayStation 3 - Central processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Graphics processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Memory, PlayStation 3 - Theoretical system bandwidth, PlayStation 3 - Overall floating-point capability, PlayStation 3 - Audio/video output, PlayStation 3 - Storage, PlayStation 3 - Physical dimensions, PlayStation 3 - Communications, PlayStation 3 - Controller, PlayStation 3 - Miscellaneous, PlayStation 3 - Games in development, PlayStation 3 - Software development kit, PlayStation 3 - GNU/Linux, PlayStation 3 - Online services, PlayStation 3 - Region Coding, PlayStation 3 - Backwards compatibility, PlayStation 3 - Games, PlayStation 3 - Peripherals, PlayStation 3 - Gallery, PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery, PlayStation 3 - Side Note

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PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery. Killzone 3 Guerrilla/Sony (2006) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Konami (2007) Warhawk PS3 Incognito Entertainment/Sony (2006) Tekken 6 Namco (2006) Devil May Cry 4 Capcom (2006) I-8 Insomniac Games (2007) Fatal Inertia Koei (2006) Heavenly Sword SCEE (2006) MotorStorm SCEE (2007) Genji 2 Sony (2006) Vision Gran T ...

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PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3 - History, PlayStation 3 - Cost and release date, PlayStation 3 - Manufacturing Costs, PlayStation 3 - Hardware specifications, PlayStation 3 - Central processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Graphics processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Memory, PlayStation 3 - Theoretical system bandwidth, PlayStation 3 - Overall floating-point capability, PlayStation 3 - Audio/video output, PlayStation 3 - Storage, PlayStation 3 - Physical dimensions, PlayStation 3 - Communications, PlayStation 3 - Controller, PlayStation 3 - Miscellaneous, PlayStation 3 - Games in development, PlayStation 3 - Software development kit, PlayStation 3 - GNU/Linux, PlayStation 3 - Online services, PlayStation 3 - Region Coding, PlayStation 3 - Backwards compatibility, PlayStation 3 - Games, PlayStation 3 - Peripherals, PlayStation 3 - Gallery, PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery, PlayStation 3 - Side Note

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Actual cost and release date may be announced by Sony at the Game developers conference March 20-24. The system's retail price is not known.[3][4] Sony Computer Entertainment president and "father of the PlayStation" Ken Kutaragi points out "It'll be expensive" and "I'm aware that with all these technologies, the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted t ...

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PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3 - History, PlayStation 3 - Cost and release date, PlayStation 3 - Manufacturing Costs, PlayStation 3 - Hardware specifications, PlayStation 3 - Central processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Graphics processing unit, PlayStation 3 - Memory, PlayStation 3 - Theoretical system bandwidth, PlayStation 3 - Overall floating-point capability, PlayStation 3 - Audio/video output, PlayStation 3 - Storage, PlayStation 3 - Physical dimensions, PlayStation 3 - Communications, PlayStation 3 - Controller, PlayStation 3 - Miscellaneous, PlayStation 3 - Games in development, PlayStation 3 - Software development kit, PlayStation 3 - GNU/Linux, PlayStation 3 - Online services, PlayStation 3 - Region Coding, PlayStation 3 - Backwards compatibility, PlayStation 3 - Games, PlayStation 3 - Peripherals, PlayStation 3 - Gallery, PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery, PlayStation 3 - Side Note

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During the first half of 2003, however, an open source project called L2J had developed, and had started to fail after the leak of the official server software. As L2J made progress, more servers gradually accepted L2J, some also had to choose this if their servers ran on Linux. L2J is programmed in Java, which in simple terms, allows the applications to run on a variety of systems, even on your PDA. This does lead to some stability issues however, generally the L2J server cannot support more than a few hundred players, and can crash without ...

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Lineage II, Lineage II - Overview, Lineage II - Release history, Lineage II - Chronicles, Lineage II - Open Beta Test Prelude, Lineage II - Chronicle 1 : Harbingers of War, Lineage II - Chronicle 2 : Age of Splendor, Lineage II - Chronicle 3 : Rise of Darkness, Lineage II - Chronicle 4: Scions of Destiny, Lineage II - Private servers, Lineage II - External link

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First-person shooter - Selected list of FPS developers. This is a short list of developers of first-person shooters who have achieved both critical and popular success, selling many units, developing lucrative intellectual properties into series of titles and/or creating strong followings that transcend the core FPS gaming audience and touched the mainstream media: 3D Realms: 3D Realms is also notable as an old developer, having its beginnings in Apogee Software, a veteran of shareware PC gami ...

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First-person shooter, First-person shooter - Overview, First-person shooter - Sub-genres, First-person shooter - Game conventions, First-person shooter - Platforms and hardware development, First-person shooter - Online play and mods, First-person shooter - History, First-person shooter - Beginnings, First-person shooter - 1979-1990: Arcades and home computers, First-person shooter - 1991-1993: Defining the genre, First-person shooter - 1994-2000: After Doom, First-person shooter - The 2000s, First-person shooter - Controversy, First-person shooter - List of notable titles and development houses, First-person shooter - Selected list of FPS developers, First-person shooter - Selected important games in FPS development

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Some groups have blamed first-person shooters — the usual poster boy for video game violence — for certain spree killings. For example, there was much controversy in the United States that the Columbine High School massacre was a result of the attackers having played a great deal of the FPS Doom. In fact, one of the attackers created levels for Doom, the most popular being one called "UAC Labs", which can still be found on the Internet to this day as the Harris levels. Years later, there was much speculation in the UK media ...

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First-person shooter, First-person shooter - Overview, First-person shooter - Sub-genres, First-person shooter - Game conventions, First-person shooter - Platforms and hardware development, First-person shooter - Online play and mods, First-person shooter - History, First-person shooter - Beginnings, First-person shooter - 1979-1990: Arcades and home computers, First-person shooter - 1991-1993: Defining the genre, First-person shooter - 1994-2000: After Doom, First-person shooter - The 2000s, First-person shooter - Controversy, First-person shooter - List of notable titles and development houses, First-person shooter - Selected list of FPS developers, First-person shooter - Selected important games in FPS development

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The first-person shooter can be considered a sub-genre of shooter games, though almost all other two dimensional shooter games, especially shoot'em ups, are more concerned with the gameplay mechanic of dodging than of precise aiming. The term FPS has generally come to refer to games where the player has full control over a character and can interact directly with the environment. Many third-person shooters (where the player sees the game world from a viewpoint above and behind the main character) are commonly treated as first-p ...

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First-person shooter, First-person shooter - Overview, First-person shooter - Sub-genres, First-person shooter - Game conventions, First-person shooter - Platforms and hardware development, First-person shooter - Online play and mods, First-person shooter - History, First-person shooter - Beginnings, First-person shooter - 1979-1990: Arcades and home computers, First-person shooter - 1991-1993: Defining the genre, First-person shooter - 1994-2000: After Doom, First-person shooter - The 2000s, First-person shooter - Controversy, First-person shooter - List of notable titles and development houses, First-person shooter - Selected list of FPS developers, First-person shooter - Selected important games in FPS development

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Although the story of Deus Ex is based on real world themes and events, a few fictional elements of the game world have seemingly spilled over into reality since the game's release in 2000. During sections of the game where the New York skyline is visible in the background, the two towers of the World Trade Center are noticeably missing. Harvey Smith, one of the game's designers, explains that due to texture memory limitations, the portion of the skyline with the twin towers had to be left out, and the other half mirrored in pl ...

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Deus Ex, Deus Ex - Etymology, Deus Ex - Overview, Deus Ex - Dating, Deus Ex - Real world parallels, Deus Ex - Trivia, Deus Ex - Characters, Deus Ex - Theme music

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A chronoglogical listing attempting at listing the more "ground-breaking" or "influential" games from this genre, mainly the more popular or well known examples: Maze War (1973) Battlezone (1980) 3D Monster Maze (1981) — the first 3D game for a home computer, requiring the player to navigate a 3D maze in the first person avoiding a lurking dinosaur. Ultima Underworld (1992) — An “unsung hero” of the FPS genre, and perhaps the first game to belong to it properly. The ...

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First-person shooter, First-person shooter - Overview, First-person shooter - Sub-genres, First-person shooter - Game conventions, First-person shooter - Platforms and hardware development, First-person shooter - Online play and mods, First-person shooter - History, First-person shooter - Beginnings, First-person shooter - 1979-1990: Arcades and home computers, First-person shooter - 1991-1993: Defining the genre, First-person shooter - 1994-2000: After Doom, First-person shooter - The 2000s, First-person shooter - Controversy, First-person shooter - List of notable titles and development houses, First-person shooter - Selected list of FPS developers, First-person shooter - Selected important games in FPS development

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Some companies now specialize in developing software suites known as "middleware." Middleware developers attempt to "pre-invent the wheel" by developing robust software suites which include many elements a game developer may need to build a game. Most middleware programs provide facilities that ease development, such as graphics, sound, physics and AI functions. Gamebryo and RenderWare are two such widely used middleware programs. Some middleware only do one thing, such as render trees and plants, such as SpeedTree, but do it more ...

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Players create a character as their avatar in the game's medieval-style virtual world called Aden. They can choose from five typical fantasy races: Dark Elf, Dwarf, Elf, Human, or Orc. Players also choose from either fighter or mystic professions at the start, except for Dwarves which are only able to select the fighter profession. This choice acts as an archetype for later profession options. Players have a variety of things they can do for fun in the game. They play alone or as part of a group (known as "party") to fight monsters an ...

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Lineage II, Lineage II - Overview, Lineage II - Release history, Lineage II - Chronicles, Lineage II - Open Beta Test Prelude, Lineage II - Chronicle 1 : Harbingers of War, Lineage II - Chronicle 2 : Age of Splendor, Lineage II - Chronicle 3 : Rise of Darkness, Lineage II - Chronicle 4: Scions of Destiny, Lineage II - Private servers, Lineage II - External link

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Main article: First person shooter graphics engines A well-known subset of game engines are 3D first-person shooter (FPS) game engines. Groundbreaking development in terms of visual quality is done on FPS games on the human scale. Along with increasing realism of flight and driving simulators and real-time strategy (RTS) on larger-scale games, first-person shooters are at the forefront of ...

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Game engine, Game engine - Overview, Game engine - Middleware, Game engine - Hobbyists, Game engine - FPS game engines

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Game engine development is a popular project amongst computer science students, hobbyists, and game developers alike. It can require strong interdisciplinary understanding of geometry, color theory, and computing. Being largely visual, however, these developers consider it fun and rewarding. Crystal Space, for example, is a popular open source multiplatform game engine. A very popular and inexpensive game development environment was created beginning in 1999 by Mark Overmars. His Game Maker object oriented interpreter makes development of 2 dimensional games extremely easy. The system can support many game for ...

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Game engine, Game engine - Overview, Game engine - Middleware, Game engine - Hobbyists, Game engine - FPS game engines

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America's Army is a round- and team-based tactical shooter with a gameplay similar to Counter-Strike in which the player controls a soldier of the U.S. Army from the first person perspective instead of Counter-Terrorists or Terrorists. Before being allowed to play online a player must first go through four training maps and have his progress saved online in a player account. Accomplishing the other ten training levels enables the player to become CLS (combat life-saver, NOT a full-fledged medic), See also:

America's Army, America's Army - Overview, America's Army - History, America's Army - Gameplay, America's Army - Controversy, America's Army - Cultural Impact, America's Army - Similar games, America's Army - Ideological counterparts, America's Army - Serious Games encouraging non-violent conflict solutions, America's Army - Literature

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Apart from the common controversy that surrounds games rewarding the virtual killing of other human beings, America's Army caused additional debate and disagreement that made it become the subject of journalistic and academic research. America's Army is intended to give a positive impression of the U.S. Army. In the official Frequently Asked Questions page the developers, too, confirm that in a statement giving the reason why people outside the United States can play the game: "We want the wh ...

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America's Army, America's Army - Overview, America's Army - History, America's Army - Gameplay, America's Army - Controversy, America's Army - Cultural Impact, America's Army - Similar games, America's Army - Ideological counterparts, America's Army - Serious Games encouraging non-violent conflict solutions, America's Army - Literature

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Kuma\War is a free online war game that reconstructs real-war events from the news. Kuma\War is a first and third-person squad-based war game. It is the first PC tactical FPS that models missions on actual real-world events. Each month players get new single player and multiplayer games (missions), to reflect unfolding events around the world. A vast database of intelligence accompanies Kuma\War online games: satellite photos, political context, event details and the weaponry, tactics and forces involved. Players also receive exclusive video new ...

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List of free first-person shooters, List of free first-person shooters - America's Army: Special Forces 2.5, List of free first-person shooters - Axion Quake v1.1.0, List of free first-person shooters - CodeRED: Alien Arena, List of free first-person shooters - Control Monger, List of free first-person shooters - Cube, List of free first-person shooters - Death Illustrated, List of free first-person shooters - Digital Paintball 2.0, List of free first-person shooters - .kkrieger, List of free first-person shooters - Kuma\War, List of free first-person shooters - Nexuiz, List of free first-person shooters - Starsiege: Tribes, List of free first-person shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, List of free first-person shooters - Warsow, List of free first-person shooters - Wulfram 2

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.kkrieger created by the German demo group .theprodukkt (a former subdivision of farbrausch group) and won first place in the 96k game competition at Breakpoint in April 2004. The game remains a beta version as of 2005 and is buggy on some graphic card/driver combinations, but is playable. Because the game's content is procedurally generated, the entire game uses only 97,280 bytes of disk space. The trade-off is that high system requirements must be met for the game to run well, or at all. 'File Size: 96 KB' Get the game her ...

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List of free first-person shooters, List of free first-person shooters - America's Army: Special Forces 2.5, List of free first-person shooters - Axion Quake v1.1.0, List of free first-person shooters - CodeRED: Alien Arena, List of free first-person shooters - Control Monger, List of free first-person shooters - Cube, List of free first-person shooters - Death Illustrated, List of free first-person shooters - Digital Paintball 2.0, List of free first-person shooters - .kkrieger, List of free first-person shooters - Kuma\War, List of free first-person shooters - Nexuiz, List of free first-person shooters - Starsiege: Tribes, List of free first-person shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, List of free first-person shooters - Warsow, List of free first-person shooters - Wulfram 2

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Digital Paintball 2.0 is a fast-paced, team-based, first-person shooter with a variety of game modes and support for up to 4 teams. Modes include Standard CTF, Siege (Attack/Defend), KOTH (King of the Hill), Elimination, and DM (Free-for-all). It was once a Quake2 mod but is now completely standalone and completely free. 'File Size: 16 MB' Get the game here: Official Paintball 2 Website ...

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List of free first-person shooters, List of free first-person shooters - America's Army: Special Forces 2.5, List of free first-person shooters - Axion Quake v1.1.0, List of free first-person shooters - CodeRED: Alien Arena, List of free first-person shooters - Control Monger, List of free first-person shooters - Cube, List of free first-person shooters - Death Illustrated, List of free first-person shooters - Digital Paintball 2.0, List of free first-person shooters - .kkrieger, List of free first-person shooters - Kuma\War, List of free first-person shooters - Nexuiz, List of free first-person shooters - Starsiege: Tribes, List of free first-person shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, List of free first-person shooters - Warsow, List of free first-person shooters - Wulfram 2

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Death illustrated is a deathmatch oriented game in a comick book style it is based on the Cube engine 'File Size: 25.7 MB' Get the game here: Official Death Illustrated Website ...

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List of free first-person shooters, List of free first-person shooters - America's Army: Special Forces 2.5, List of free first-person shooters - Axion Quake v1.1.0, List of free first-person shooters - CodeRED: Alien Arena, List of free first-person shooters - Control Monger, List of free first-person shooters - Cube, List of free first-person shooters - Death Illustrated, List of free first-person shooters - Digital Paintball 2.0, List of free first-person shooters - .kkrieger, List of free first-person shooters - Kuma\War, List of free first-person shooters - Nexuiz, List of free first-person shooters - Starsiege: Tribes, List of free first-person shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, List of free first-person shooters - Warsow, List of free first-person shooters - Wulfram 2

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Nexuiz is a GNU GPLed FPSs game that focuses on quick, lethal battles with balanced weaponry. As of this release there are 9 weapons and 17 official maps, as well as 15 player models, with an average of 2 skins each. While Nexuiz is not intended to be an eye-candy game, it features many stunning effects such as Coronas, Bloom (reflected glow), Realtime World and Dynamic Lights (and shaders, with OpenGL 2.0), and blood (although this can be relatively easily disabled by turning off particles and decals). Nexuiz is an open source game based ...

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List of free first-person shooters, List of free first-person shooters - America's Army: Special Forces 2.5, List of free first-person shooters - Axion Quake v1.1.0, List of free first-person shooters - CodeRED: Alien Arena, List of free first-person shooters - Control Monger, List of free first-person shooters - Cube, List of free first-person shooters - Death Illustrated, List of free first-person shooters - Digital Paintball 2.0, List of free first-person shooters - .kkrieger, List of free first-person shooters - Kuma\War, List of free first-person shooters - Nexuiz, List of free first-person shooters - Starsiege: Tribes, List of free first-person shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory,