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  2. List of best-selling video game franchises - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft is a sandbox and survival video game originally created by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson and developed by Mojang. Originally a computer indie game made using Java , it has since been ported to game consoles and mobile devices.

  3. Strafing (video games) - Wikipedia

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    Strafing in video games is a maneuver which involves moving a controlled character or entity sideways relative to the direction it is facing. This may be done for a variety of reasons, depending on the type of game; for example, in a first-person shooter, strafing would allow one to continue tracking and firing at an opponent while moving in another direction.

  4. Mojang Studios - Wikipedia

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    Markus Persson founded Mojang Studios in 2009.. Mojang Studios was founded by Markus Persson, a Swedish independent video game designer and programmer, in 2009. [3] [4] He had gained interest in video games at an early age, playing The Bard's Tale and several pirated games on his father's Commodore 128 home computer, and learned to programme at age eight with help from his sister.

  5. Hardware performance counter - Wikipedia

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    These "in-flight" instructions can retire at any time, depending on memory access, hits in cache, stalls in the pipeline and many other factors. This can cause performance counter events to be attributed to the wrong instructions, making precise performance analysis difficult or impossible. AMD introduced methods to mitigate some of these ...

  6. Minecraft (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft is a media franchise developed from and centered around the video game of the same name. Developed by Mojang Studios (formerly known as Mojang AB) and Xbox Game Studios , which are owned by Microsoft Corporation , the franchise consists of six video games, along with various books, merchandise, events, and an upcoming theatrical film.

  7. First-person shooter - Wikipedia

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    A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character. [1] This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category.

  8. List of video games derived from mods - Wikipedia

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    Klaus Veen's Treason is a free social deduction FPS game which is heavily derivative of Trouble in Terrorist Town & Murder which were popularized in Garry's Mod. However, Treason actually had humble beginnings as a map collection within the Counter-Strike: Condition Zero TTT mod before it became a standalone Source project.

  9. Source (game engine) - Wikipedia

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    It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life 2. Other notable third-party games using Source include Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Dear Esther, The Stanley Parable and Garry’s Mod. Valve released incremental updates to the engine during its lifetime.