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  2. Video games and Linux - Wikipedia

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    The Mizutamari launcher exists to facilitate running Windows games through Wine, [361] which can still be used standalone. [362] A 2011 benchmark by Phoronix even found certain speed advantages over running games on Linux itself, comparing PC-BSD 8.2 to Ubuntu 11.04. [ 363 ]

  3. List of features removed in Windows 8 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 8.1 added a Registry setting to revert the changes, which is also available to Windows 8 users after installing a hotfix. [33] The sounds played upon login, logout and system shutdown and the sound events themselves were removed. The startup sound remains but is disabled by default. [34].NET Framework 3.5 is no longer installed. Windows ...

  4. Comparison of desktop application launchers - Wikipedia

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    An application launcher provides shortcuts to computer programs, and stores the shortcuts in one place so they are easier to find. In the comparison of desktop application launchers that follows, each section is devoted to a different desktop environment .

  5. Bethesda Softworks - Wikipedia

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    Fallout 76 and Fallout Shelter were exclusives to the launcher before eventually released on Steam. [65] In 2022, Bethesda shut down the launcher. The launcher was mostly met with negative reception. [66] [67] [68] PC Gamer said that "Bethesda's launcher seems to be designed more as a pretty interface to purchase Bethesda's games than a way of ...

  6. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the open sewers in the Middle Ages were largely responsible for The Black Death. Optical zoom The advent of digital cameras (and accompanying digital zoom) necessitated this retronym, describing the "analog" method of achieving close-up using a zoom lens. Opposite-sex marriage coined after the advent of same-sex marriage.

  7. Minecraft Earth - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft Earth was an augmented reality and geolocation-based sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird interactive and published by Xbox Game Studios. A spin-off of the video game Minecraft , it was first announced in May 2019, and was available on Android and iOS .

  8. End Poem - Wikipedia

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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: End Poem (full text) The end credits of the video game Minecraft include a written work by Julian Gough, conventionally called the End Poem, which is the only narrative text in the mostly unstructured sandbox game. Minecraft's creator Markus "Notch" Persson did not have an ending to the game up until a month before launch, and following ...

  9. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the video game industry ...

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    On 8 February 2021, Konami announced the 9th tournament would be cancelled. [58] On 22 March 2021, a day after the state of emergency was lifted, [59] the qualifier rounds were announced to end on 20 April. [60] 闘神祭2020 (Tōshinsai), a cross-arcade game tournament held in Japan that is co-organised by NTT-esports and Taito, was cancelled ...