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Game Science (游戏科学)
Game Science (游戏科学, 深圳市游科互动科技有限公司), Chinese studio founded June 2014 by ex-Tencent 斗战神 developers Feng Ji and Yang Qi; developer of Black Myth: Wukong (UE5, 2024), the record-selling Chinese buy-to-play game, with Hero and Tencent investment.
Game semantics
Game semantics is a style of denotational semantics interpreting types as games and programs as strategies, arising in the early 1990s from the full abstraction problem for PCF.
Game server
Game server: a program or machine hosting a multiplayer game session, holding the authoritative game state. Includes dedicated headless servers, listen servers, P2P comparison, cloud hosting (Amazon GameLift), replication, and latency compensation.
Game Shakers
Game Shakers is a Nickelodeon live-action sitcom (2015–2019) created by Dan Schneider, his tenth Nick series, about Brooklyn seventh-graders Babe and Kenzie whose app Sky Whale makes them millionaires with rapper Double G as partner; 61 episodes, TV-G, IMDb 4.8/10.
Game show
Game show: a broadcast format in which contestants play rule-bound games of knowledge, skill, or luck for prizes. Also called quiz shows. Began with 1923 radio's Brooklyn Eagle Quiz; over 1,000 formats; shaped by the 1950s quiz show scandals and the global format trade.
Game Show Network
Game Show Network (GSN) is an American cable network launched December 1, 1994, dedicated to game shows; rebranded GSN in 2004, reverted in 2018, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Game testing
Game testing (video game QA) evaluates games for bugs, localization, compliance, compatibility, accessibility, and balance; it relies mainly on manual playtesting, with automation research growing and QA labor unionizing.
Game theory
Game theory is the mathematical study of strategic interaction, a family of models founded on von Neumann's 1928 minimax theorem and Nash's 1950 equilibrium, now central to economics.
Game theory in business
Game theory in business applies formal models of strategic interaction, including Nash equilibrium, auctions, and bargaining, to decisions such as pricing, bidding, capacity investment, and negotiation.
Game Time (Future and Tyla song)
Game Time is a 29 May 2026 single by Future and Tyla from the Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Album, released via SALXCO UAM and Def Jam. Produced by Cirkut, it is the first hip-hop track on a World Cup soundtrack and debuted at number 4 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100.
Game to lose
Game to Lose, or Nine Card Don, is a three-player card game from the West Midlands of England, played as the reverse of Chase the Nine.
Game Workers Unite
Game Workers Unite (GWU) is a decentralized international grassroots network of video game workers founded in 2018 after an IGDA GDC roundtable confrontation, promoting unionization through Discord-based chapters, zines, and direct action; successor bodies include IWGB Game Workers and United Videogame Workers-CWA.
Game.com
Game.com, also known as Tiger game.com, is a handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics in 1997 to compete with Nintendo's Game Boy; it was the first touchscreen console.
Game+
Game+ is a Canadian English-language specialty TV channel, formerly FNTSY Sports Network, owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment, focused on fantasy sports, esports, poker, and action sports; distinct from Rogers' GamePlus NHL streaming feature.
Gamebook
Gamebook: a printed branching-path story in numbered, non-sequential sections where the reader chooses what happens next, also called choose-your-own-adventure books. Two strands exist: pure branching novels (Choose Your Own Adventure) and dice-and-stats adventure gamebooks (Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf).
Gameboy (song)
Gameboy (song): title shared by KATSEYE's 2025 dance pop single from BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (produced by KillaGraham, US Spotify peak #121) and Rosé's 2024 rosie album track, plus minor same-titled releases.
Gameboys
Gameboys: first Philippine BL (boys love) web series, 2020, by The IdeaFirst Company, about gamers Cairo (Elijah Canlas) and Gavreel (Kokoy de Santos) finding romance over video calls during COVID lockdown, shot remotely on iPhones and later picked up by Netflix.
Gamebryo
Gamebryo (NetImmerse until 2003) is a licensed 3D game engine from NDL, later Emergent Game Technologies, used in Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Civilization IV; acquired by Gamebase in 2010.
GameChange Solar
GameChange Solar is an American manufacturer of solar trackers and fixed-tilt racking systems, founded in 2012 and ranked second in global tracker shipments in 2025.
GameCube (ニンテンドーゲームキューブ)
GameCube (ニンテンドーゲームキューブ) is Nintendo's 2001 sixth-generation home console with IBM Gekko CPU, ATI Flipper GPU, and 1.5 GB miniDVD discs; it sold 21.74 million units, behind PS2 (160M+) and Xbox (24M).
GameCube controller
GameCube controller: Nintendo's 2001 gamepad for the GameCube, with asymmetric face buttons, C Stick, and analog L/R triggers with digital clicks; used via adapters on Wii U, Switch, and Switch 2, and standard in competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee.
GameDementia trial
GameDementia (NCT06631742) is a pilot randomized controlled trial by Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences testing 12 weeks of Dividat Senso dance exergaming versus usual care in 48 long-term care residents with major neurocognitive disorders, measuring SPPB, activity, and sleep.
Gameel Al-Batouti (جميل البطوطي)
Gameel Al-Batouti (جميل البطوطي), Egyptian relief first officer of EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off Nantucket in 1999 killing 217; NTSB blamed his control inputs, Egypt blamed mechanical failure.
Gamelan
Gamelan, the traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra of tuned metallophones, gongs, and gong-chimes, with Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese traditions; UNESCO-inscribed 2021; known for cyclic time and kotekan interlocking.
Gamelan instrument making
Gamelan instrument making is the Indonesian craft, centered in Java and Bali, of forging and tuning bronze gongs and metallophones; each ensemble is tuned to itself and often named.
Gameloft
Gameloft: French video game developer and publisher founded in 2000, known for the Asphalt, Dungeon Hunter, Modern Combat, and Disney Magic Kingdoms franchises; wholly owned by Vivendi since its 2016 acquisition for €621 million, now shifting from mobile toward PC and consoles.
GameMaker
GameMaker is a cross-platform 2D game development engine created in 1999 by Marc Overmars and developed by YoYo Games; it powers games like Undertale and Hotline Miami.
Gamemaster
Gamemaster (GM), or Dungeon Master in D&D: the tabletop RPG participant who prepares the world, narrates outcomes, runs non-player characters, and adjudicates rules. Descends from wargame referees; term predates D&D's 1974 trademarked "Dungeon Master".
GameNGen
GameNGen is a diffusion model by Google Research that simulates the 1993 shooter DOOM in real time, generating each frame from past frames and player actions.
Gameover ZeuS
Gameover ZeuS, also known as GOZeus or P2P ZeuS, was a peer-to-peer botnet that stole online banking credentials, infecting up to 1 million computers from 2011 to 2014.