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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. Always-on DRM - Wikipedia

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    Popular video games such as Diablo III, Super Mario Run, and Starcraft 2 employ always-on DRM by requiring players to connect to the internet to play, even in single-player mode. Reviews of Diablo III criticized its use of always-on DRM. [1] [2] As with Diablo III, SimCity (2013) experienced bugs at its launch due to always-on DRM. [3]

  4. PlayStation 5 - Wikipedia

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    The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.It was announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, was launched on November 12, 2020, in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea, and was released worldwide a week later.

  5. nProtect GameGuard - Wikipedia

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    Since GameGuard monitors any changes in the computer's memory, it will cause performance issues when the protected game loads multiple or large resources all at once. [ 7 ] Additionally, some versions of GameGuard had an unpatched privilege escalation bug, allowing any program to issue commands as if they were running under an Administrator ...

  6. List of commercial video games with available source code

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    Live, free to play public servers and public development groups have since come into existence. The source code is centrally maintained by the open-source project SWG Source and is available on GitHub. Striker '96: 1996 2022 PlayStation Sports: Rage Software: Source code found on a Dreamcast development kit. [232] Super 3D Noah's Ark: 1994 2018 ...

  7. Glitch - Wikipedia

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    A glitch, which is slight and often temporary, differs from a more serious bug which is a genuine functionality-breaking problem. Alex Pieschel, writing for Arcade Review , said: " 'bug' is often cast as the weightier and more blameworthy pejorative, while 'glitch' suggests something more mysterious and unknowable inflicted by surprise inputs ...

  8. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    The service is the largest digital distribution platform for PC games, with an estimated 75% of the market share in 2013 according to IHS Screen Digest. [2] By 2017, game purchases through Steam totaled about US$ 4.3 billion, or at least 18% of global PC game sales according to Steam Spy . [ 3 ]

  9. Glitch (Minnesota company) - Wikipedia

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    GLITCH published HyperDot in partnership with developer, Tribe Games, in January 2020. The game implemented a wide variety of accessible features. [ 14 ] The game supports many different types of controller inputs beyond standard console or PC inputs, from eye-tracking to touch controls to the Xbox Adaptive Controller , and is designed to ...