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A video game, computer game, or simply game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset. Most modern video games are audiovisual, with audio complement delivered through speakers or headphones, and sometimes also with other types of sensory feedback (e.g., haptic technology that provides tactile sensations). Some video games also allow microphone and webcam inputs for in-game chatting and livestreaming.
Video games are typically categorized according to their hardware platform, which traditionally includes arcade video games, console games, and computer games (which includes LAN games, online games, and browser games). More recently, the video game industry has expanded onto mobile gaming through mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablet computers), virtual and augmented reality systems, and remote cloud gaming. Video games are also classified into a wide range of genres based on their style of gameplay and target audience. (Full article...)
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- ... that the 1992 video game Otogirisō reinvigorated interest in adventure games in Japan?
- ... that a reviewer thought that the video game Robbery Bob contained cringeworthy dialogue?
- ... that the first video game developed in independent Ukraine, Admiral Sea Battles, was released in 1996?
- ... that parents once mistook a student's doodle of the video game character Xiao for a Satanic hate symbol?
- ... that Toby Fox's video game Undertale was given to Pope Francis?
- ... that the urban legend Herobrine was ranked on a Guinness World Records poll of the best video game villains, despite never existing?
- ... that Elena from the video game series Street Fighter uses a capoeira fighting style, for which the development team used travel videos as reference material as they had no experience with the style?
- ... that the contrabass trombone has experienced a revival in film music and video game soundtracks?
- ... that players can print out their photographs taken in the video game New Pokémon Snap?
- ... that Rawson Stovall became the first nationally syndicated video game journalist in the United States when he was only eleven years old?
- ... that the death of a pregnant woman in a video game was written to be even darker on television?
- ... that the Roblox video game Grow a Garden once had more than 20 million simultaneous players?
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Recent video game-related events
- March 24, 2026 – 2022–2026 video game industry layoffs
- American video game company Epic Games announces that it will lay off more than 1,000 employees along with more than $500 million in savings from cuts to contracting and marketing amid a sharp decline in the number of people playing its flagship video game Fortnite. (Reuters)
- September 29, 2025 –
- American video game company Electronic Arts (EA) agrees to be acquired by a group of private investors, including Silver Lake, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Affinity Partners, in a deal valued at $55 billion. The transaction, which will take EA private, constitutes the largest leveraged buyout on record. (Bloomberg News)
- June 5, 2025 –
- Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions. (BBC News) (The Verge)
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