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  2. List of commercial failures in video games - Wikipedia

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    As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video game industry's software releases have been commercial disappointments.In the early 21st century, industry commentators made these general estimates: 10% of published games generated 90% of revenue; [1] that around 3% of PC games and 15% of console games have global sales of more than 100,000 units per year, with even this level ...

  3. Valve Anti-Cheat - Wikipedia

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    Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002.. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [1]

  4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Modern Warfare II is a continuation of the 2019 reboot entry, with the campaign taking place in late 2022.The game takes place in both real and fictional locations, such as the fictional Mexican city of Las Almas, Amsterdam, the Mexico–United States border, Gulf of Mexico, Chicago, Urzikstan, and the new United Republic of Adal (URA), the capital of which, Al Mazrah, serves as a major locale ...

  5. SteamOS - Wikipedia

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    The operating system is open source, allowing users to build on or adapt the source code, though the actual Steam client is closed. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] As SteamOS was intended for playing games without a mouse or keyboard, the first two versions did not have many built-in functions beyond web browsing and playing games.

  6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Wikipedia

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    Players engaging in a gunfight in a multiplayer match. A mini-map is visible in the top left, and match progress in the bottom left.. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a first person shooter, and its gameplay revolves around fast-paced gunfights against enemy combatants. [2]

  7. IW (game engine) - Wikipedia

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    The engine has been distinct from the id Tech 3 engine on which it is based since Call of Duty 2 in 2005. The engine's name was not publicized until IGN was told at the E3 2009 by the studio that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) would run on the "IW 4.0 engine". [5]

  8. No Russian - Wikipedia

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    "No Russian" is the fourth mission of the 2009 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and its 2020 remaster. In the mission, the player controls Army Ranger PFC Joseph Allen, who—whilst undercover for the CIA with the alias Alexei Borodin in an attempt to gain the trust of Russian terrorist Vladimir Makarov—participates in a mass shooting by Makarov's group at a Moscow airport.

  9. Failure of electronic components - Wikipedia

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    Microelectromechanical systems suffer from various types of failures: Stiction causing moving parts to stick; an external impulse sometimes restores functionality. Non-stick coatings, reduction of contact area, and increased awareness mitigate the problem in contemporary systems. [9] Particles migrating in the system and blocking their movements.