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A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display on a device. However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large computers to small handheld devices. Specialized video games such as arcade games, while previously common, have gradually declined in use.
The input device used to manipulate video games is called a game controller, and varies across platforms. For example, a dedicated console controller might consist of only a button and a joystick. Another may feature a dozen buttons and one or more joysticks. Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button. Many modern computer games allow, or even require, the player to use a keyboard and mouse simultaneously.
Video games typically also use other ways of providing interaction and information to the player. Audio is almost universal, using sound reproduction devices, such as speakers and headphones. But other feedback may come via haptic peripherals, such as vibration force feedback.
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The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: [wiː]) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. The console was previously known by its code name of Revolution and is the direct successor to the Nintendo GameCube. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3, but it competes with both as part of the seventh generation of gaming systems.
A distinguishing feature of the console is its wireless controller, the Wii Remote, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and can detect motion and rotation in three dimensions. Another is WiiConnect24, which enables it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode.
Nintendo first mentioned the console at the 2004 E3 press conference and later unveiled the system at the 2005 E3. Satoru Iwata revealed a prototype of the controller at the September 2005 Tokyo Game Show. In the 2006 E3, the console won the first of several awards. By December 8, 2006, it completed its launch in four key markets. (more...)
Current events
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is released world-wide.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is confirmed to be in pre-production. [1]
- Pokemon Black and White versions are announced, giving a start to the fifth generation of the internationally popular series, Pokémon. [2]
- John McAllister reportedly broke the high score record for Asteroids, originally set in 1982. [3][4]
- The Nintendo 3DS is announced, which is set to release before March 2011 in Japan. The new hand-held will use 3D technology without the need for glasses. [5]
- A rare, mint condition Atari 2600 game, The Music Machine, sells for US$5,250 on eBay. [6]
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sells 4.7 million units its first day in the United States and United Kingdom. [7]
- The Game Boy (pictured) is inducted into the United States' National Toy Hall of Fame. [8]
- Nintendo announces the fourth hardware revision of the Nintendo DS to be released in early 2010 called the Nintendo DSi XL in North America and Europe and Nintendo DSi LL in Japan. [9]
- Sony launch a redesigned version of the PlayStation 3 at the Gamescom trade fair in Germany. [10]
- Part of Electronic Arts' marketing campaign for Dante's Inferno is negatively received. [11][12]
This month in gaming history
- August 1976: Fairchild Semiconductor released the Fairchild Channel F, the first programmable ROM cartridge video game system.
- August 1989: Nintendo released the Game Boy handheld game console in North America.
- August 1995: Square USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Square Company, Ltd., was established in Los Angeles, California.
- 1986-08-06: Nintendo released Metroid for the Famicom Disk System.
- 2003-08-14: Microsoft announced ATI as the developer of the graphics processing unit for their new console, the Xbox 360.
- 1996-08-31: Sega released NiGHTS into Dreams... for the Sega Saturn.
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