The original "Thief: The Dark Project" was released in 1998 and pioneered the stealth game genre.
The collectible card game genre has been popular online since the early days of Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering.
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Few games challenge our gamer presumptions about violence and complicity and fewer still challenge the archetypes that rule the video game genre.
Created in 1999, Neopets was the progenitor of what would later become an extremely popular game genre: the multi-player browser-based pet simulation game.
In the video game industry, endless sequels for a popular franchise are standard procedure, but the music game genre has just seemed to dry up in recent years.
Interactive Entertainment (part of Time Warner, CNN's parent company) is showing its commitment to the popular free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game genre with its second licensed game in as many years.
War of the Fallen places a layer of polish and panache on a now saturated mobile game genre, as free-to-play card battlers in a variety of styles are released on a daily basis.
Watson does just fine on the game show genre but what about the real world?
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But in many ways, the game is second-to-bat in the toy-game hybrid genre.
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The New link lists the most recent games available in Game World while the Genre option gives access to game titles in the following categories: action, adventure, arcade, puzzle, RPG, shooter, simulation, sports, and strategy.
In the end, Relic has produced not only a very solid real time strategy game but brought the genre into space successfully.
Today, Skylanders got some company in the game-meets-toy genre in the form of Disney Infinity.
Of course, such a genre-bending game would be hard to pull off.
More to come later as I play the game further (as well as in my upcoming series on the MOBA genre) but for now this free iOS game is well worth the download.
In gaming circles, this type of title is known as an "art game, " a loosely defined genre.
Quick Hit NFL differs from a Madden-type game in that it more closely resembles a traditional role-playing game typically found in the fantasy genre.
From a development perspective, how many titles do you plan on making there and will you focus on a particular genre or type of game?
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The viewing public has grown tired of procedurals and serials, but the reality genre, especially variety, game and docu-reality, is still wide open for exploitation.
So when I came over to Airtight Games, I pitched an idea for a game in that same kind of puzzle genre, and we went ahead and made it.
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As much fun as I have customizing my character with better and more interesting loot, I still find the game lacks what most games in this genre lack: a real focus on defense.
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The biggest problem for in-game ads presents itself in the form of genre.
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Role-playing-games, and particularly action-RPGs, are my genre of choice, but a game like Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, or Bioshock are loads of fun.
Clash of the Dragons and Legacy of Heroes feature similar game systems and focus on the fantasy and superhero genre spaces, respectively.
The stylized action game is actually hard to pin down to a single genre.
That, in and of itself, is what I think lifts this up as a game that expands upon the medium and not just the genre.
Why is it okay for a FPS game to release a separate title, while in another genre this would only qualify as DLC or expansion?
Here is a game that eschews much of what defines the modern shooter genre, that promises an infinite number of customization options, that gives players the capacity to create not just elaborately defined action heroes, but entire worlds and games using the same tools that the developers themselves use in their Unreal Engine 4 action title.
On April 17th, HBO will take a pricey plunge into the fantasy genre when it debuts its hotly-anticipated series Game Of Thrones.
The genre is technically known as a Tactical Role Playing Game, meaning that one of the primary game activities is to collect different types of soldiers (in our case, a crew of odd-ball talking animals and mythological creatures) and field them in tactical battles (ship raids and prison breaks).
The game itself is fun and refreshing, a wonderful spin on a genre dominated by violent titles like GTA IV, Sleeping Dogs, and Saints Row.
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