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Gameoverse
Gameoverse is a 2D animated action-adventure web series by Ross O'Donovan and Glitch Productions, a reboot of a 2009 series, with its pilot premiering on YouTube in May 2026.
Gamepad
A gamepad is a game controller held with both hands, combining a D-pad, buttons, analog thumbsticks, and triggers, with haptic actuators for vibration feedback; many add rear paddles.
Gameplay
Gameplay is the activity and experience of playing a game, arising from how a game's rules interact with the player's goal pursuit, skill, and strategies.
GamePro
GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine, monthly from May 1989 and online from 1996, owned by IDG. It closed print and U.S. web editions on December 5, 2011 after ad revenue fell; the German print edition ended with the 01/2024 issue.
Gamer
Gamer: a person who identifies with playing video games as an identity, not merely a pastime. Distinguished from casual players by self-identification, play frequency, spending, and community membership; heavily gender-skewed.
Gamer (2009 film)
Gamer is a 2009 American cyberpunk action thriller written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, starring Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Logan Lerman, and Amber Valletta.
Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything
Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything is a Disney XD live-action sitcom (2015–2017) created by Devin Bunje and Nick Stanton, starring Cameron Boyce as pro gamer Conor; 37 episodes over two seasons before cancellation.
Gamera (ガメラ)
Gamera (ガメラ) is Daiei Film's giant fire-breathing turtle kaiju, debuting in Daikaiju Gamera (1965) directed by Noriaki Yuasa. Eight Showa films, the acclaimed Heisei trilogy (1995–1999), Gamera the Brave (2006), and the 2023 Netflix anime GAMERA -Rebirth- follow; rights now rest with KADOKAWA.
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (ガメラ2 レギオン襲来)
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (ガメラ2 レギオン襲来, Advent of Legion) is a 1996 Heisei Gamera kaiju film by Shusuke Kaneko, released 13 July 1996, 100 min, in which Gamera fights the silicon-based space collective Legion after a meteor strike on Hokkaido; it was the first film to win the Nihon SF Taishō Award.
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (ガメラ3 邪神覚醒)
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (ガメラ3 邪神覚醒, Gamera 3: Jashin kakusei) is a 1999 Japanese kaiju film, the final Heisei Gamera trilogy entry, directed by Shusuke Kaneko, about a girl raising the monster Iris to destroy Gamera.
Gamera Rebirth
GAMERA -Rebirth- (ガメラ リバース) is a 2023 six-episode Netflix 3DCG anime by ENGI, directed by Hiroyuki Seshita, the first animated Gamera work, set in 1989 Tokyo with Gamera fighting five classic kaiju.
Gamera vs. Gyaos (大怪獣空中戦 ガメラ対ギャオス)
Gamera vs. Gyaos (大怪獣空中戦 ガメラ対ギャオス) is Daiei's third Gamera kaiju film, released March 15, 1967, directed by Noriaki Yuasa. It debuts the ultrasonic-blade monster Gyaos and establishes Gamera's child-protector image.
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦)
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦) is a 1995 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko, rebooting Daiei's Gamera against Gyaos and starting the Heisei trilogy.
Gamergate (harassment campaign)
Gamergate (#GamerGate), harassment campaign begun August 2014 after Eron Gjoni's "Zoe Post" about ex-girlfriend Zoe Quinn; targeted women in gaming, including Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu, with death threats and doxxing.
Gamers! (ゲーマーズ！)
Gamers! is Sekina Aoi and Saba’s Japanese romantic-comedy light novel series about students, games, and tangled relationships, adapted into manga and a 2017 PINE JAM anime.
Games as a service
Games as a service (GaaS), also called the live-service model, is a video game business model earning continuing revenue through subscriptions, microtransactions, and downloadable content.
Games Done Quick
Games Done Quick (GDQ), founded by Mike Uyama in 2010, is a semi-annual charity speedrunning marathon series: AGDQ each January for the Prevent Cancer Foundation and SGDQ each summer for Doctors Without Borders, raising over $62 million total.
Games Hall
Games Hall: name shared by a casino in Khanaqin District, Iraq, a Babil café, a Samawah gym, UAE electronic-game arcades, and British community sports halls.
Games of Love and Chance
Games of Love and Chance (L'Esquive) is Abdellatif Kechiche's 2003 French comedy-drama about banlieue teenagers rehearsing Marivaux; it won four Césars in 2005, including Best Film and Best Director.
Games People Play (book)
Games People Play (1964, Grove Press) by psychiatrist Eric Berne introduced transactional analysis and its catalog of covert social "games" to a mass audience, selling over 5 million copies and coining terms like Parent, Adult, and Child.
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group PLC, British maker of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 fantasy miniatures; founded 1975, Nottingham-based, vertically integrated, LSE-listed, 560+ stores, £617.5m revenue 2024/25.
Gamescom
Gamescom: world's largest video game trade fair and public festival, held every August at Koelnmesse, Cologne since 2009 as successor to Leipzig's Games Convention; organized by Koelnmesse and game association; 373,000-record 2019 attendance, Opening Night Live, global editions.
Gamesmanship
Gamesmanship: use of dubious but legal tactics and psychological ploys to win in sport, coined by Stephen Potter in 1947; distinct from sportsmanship and cheating, also applied in law.
GameSpot
GameSpot is a long-running video game news, review, and video site on a 10-point review scale. Formerly CNET/CBS-owned, sold to Red Ventures in 2020, then Fandom (TPG-backed) in 2022; known for the 2007 Jeff Gerstmann Kane & Lynch firing.
GameSpy
GameSpy: San Francisco online gaming company founded 1997; GameSpy3D and Arcade server browsers plus multiplayer SDKs powering Battlefield, Halo, and others; acquired by IGN in 2004, technology sold to Glu Mobile 2012, services shut down mid-2014.
GameStop
GameStop (GME): American video game and collectibles retailer founded as Babbage's in Dallas, 1983; largest US game retailer, center of the January 2021 meme-stock short squeeze, now shrinking stores while holding $5.35 billion in cash and Bitcoin.
GameStop short squeeze
The GameStop short squeeze, or GME short squeeze, was a January 2021 episode in which retail investors drove GameStop shares to $483, causing heavy short-seller losses.
Gamete
A gamete, also called a gametic cell or sex cell, is a reproductive cell such as an egg or sperm that carries half the usual genetic material.
Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer
Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) is an assisted reproductive technique, developed in the mid-1980s by Asch and colleagues, that places eggs and sperm into patent fallopian tubes for in vivo fertilization; now rarely performed, superseded by IVF.
Gameto, Inc.
Gameto, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Dina Radenkovic and Martin Varsavsky, known for Fertilo, a stem-cell therapy that matures eggs outside the body to reduce hormone injections in IVF.