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Playboy TV
Playboy TV, originally The Playboy Channel, is an American adult pay television channel launched in 1982 as Escapade/Playboy, later a PPV and subscription service, and since January 2025 operated under license by Byborg.
Playboy: The Mansion
Playboy: The Mansion is a 2005 lifestyle simulation game by Cyberlore Studios for PC, PS2, and Xbox, in which the player plays Hugh Hefner, builds the Playboy magazine, and hosts parties; GameSpot scored it 6.3 Fair.
Playdate (film)
Playdate (2025) is an American action comedy directed by Luke Greenfield, written by Neil Goldman, starring Kevin James and Alan Ritchson as stay-at-home dads pursued by mercenaries; released on Prime Video November 12, 2025, it was panned by critics but hit No. 1 on the streamer.
Playdead
Playdead is an independent game developer and publisher in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2006 by Arnt Jensen. Known for LIMBO (2010) and INSIDE (2016), a third Epic Games-funded game, and a 2025 lawsuit with co-founder Dino Patti.
Playdia (プレイディア)
Playdia (プレイディア) is Bandai's Japan-only children's CD-ROM console, launched September 23, 1994 at ¥24,800 with an infrared controller and anime-based interactive software; it sold poorly and was discontinued in 1996.
Player (band)
Player is a Los Angeles soft rock band formed in the mid-1970s by Peter Beckett, J.C. Crowley, Ronn Moss, and John Friesen, whose "Baby Come Back" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 1978.
Player (TV series)
Player (플레이어) is a 2018 OCN Korean crime action drama, 14 episodes, starring Song Seung-heon, Krystal, Lee Si-eon, and Tae Won-suk as a money-stealing crew, record OCN premiere 4.474%.
Player character
Player character: the figure a player controls in a video game, distinct from the AI-controlled nonplayer character; game studies distinguishes the customizable avatar from the narrative character, with identification and embodiment as the main player relationships studied.
Player efficiency rating
Player efficiency rating (PER), John Hollinger's per-minute, pace-adjusted NBA statistic, sums positive box-score events, subtracts negatives, and rescales league average to 15.00; published on Basketball-Reference since 1951-52.
Player of the match
Player of the match, in ice hockey also called player of the game, is an informal honor for the best performer in a game, typically one player overall.
Player of the Match awards (cricket)
Player of the Match awards (cricket), also Man of the Match: post-match individual honour chosen by adjudicators, in ODIs since inception and Tests since 1975; documented bias toward batters and winning teams.
Player piano
Player piano (pianola): pneumatic, roll-operated self-playing piano invented by Edwin Votey 1895, marketed by Aeolian as the Pianola from 1897; golden age 1900-1930; reproducing pianos (Welte, Ampico, Duo-Art) replay recorded pianists.
Player Piano (novel)
Player Piano (novel), also issued in paperback as Utopia 14, is Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 debut dystopian novel about engineer Paul Proteus rebelling against a machine-run America, drawn from his General Electric publicity work in Schenectady.
Player Project
The Player Project is an open-source robotics project begun in 1998 at the University of Southern California, providing the Player robot device server and the Stage and Gazebo simulators.
Player/Stage
Player/Stage is a free software robotics project combining Player, a network server giving robot controllers a uniform interface to sensors and actuators, with Stage, a 2D simulator of large robot populations.
Playero DJ
Playero DJ, known as DJ Playero, is a Puerto Rican DJ and producer born Pedro Torruellas in 1964 whose underground mixtapes incubated reggaeton and launched Daddy Yankee.
Players
Players (2022) is a Paramount+ mockumentary comedy series by Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault of American Vandal, following fictional League of Legends team Fugitive Gaming, whose veteran Creamcheese and 17-year-old rookie Organizm chase a first championship; 10 episodes, Metascore 80.
Players (2024 film)
Players (2024) is a Netflix romantic comedy directed by Trish Sie, written by Whit Anderson, starring Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., and Tom Ellis, released February 14, 2024; 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 52.
Players (प्लेयर्स) (2012 film)
Players (प्लेयर्स) is a 2012 Hindi-language heist action thriller directed by Abbas-Mustan, officially remade from The Italian Job and starring Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor.
Playfair cipher
The Playfair cipher, or Playfair square, is a manual letter-pair encryption scheme invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1854 and used by British forces in several wars.
Playful Kiss (장난스런 키스)
Playful Kiss (장난스런 키스, Mischievous Kiss) is a 2010 MBC Korean romantic-comedy drama adapted from Tada Kaoru's manga Itazura na Kiss, starring Kim Hyun-joong and Jung So-min, 16 episodes, with a popular YouTube special edition.
Playful Relationships
Playful Relationships (あそびのかんけい, Asobi no Kankei) is a Japanese board-game-café romantic comedy light novel by Sekina Aoi and Kurehito Misaki, Fantasia Bunko, from May 2025; Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2026 triple crown; Yen Press English edition.
PlayGiga
PlayGiga was a Madrid-based cloud gaming startup founded in 2013 by Juan Gili and César Valencia, acquired by Facebook in 2019 for a reported €70 million.
Playgirl
Playgirl, American magazine founded by Douglas Lambert in June 1973 as a feminist, women-oriented counterpart to Playboy, featuring male nudes, celebrity interviews, and feminist writing; peaked at 1.7 million monthly copies in 1974, closed in 2015, relaunched digitally in 2020.
Playground
Playground: outdoor play area for children 6 months to 12 years with swings, slides, and climbing equipment. Governed by CPSC and ASTM safety standards; nearly 200,000 US ER-treated injuries yearly; design trends favor inclusive, nature-based play.
Playground (novel)
Playground is Richard Powers's 2024 novel (Norton; 2024 Booker Prize longlist) about four lives converging on Makatea, French Polynesia, over a seasteading vote, ending in an AI-generated-story twist.
Playground (web series)
Playground is an Indian Hindi-language gaming reality web series that premiered on Amazon miniTV on 23 May 2022, in which teams of contestants compete in video games under mentors from India's YouTube and gaming creator community.
Playground (web series) season 4
Playground Season 4 (2024) is the fourth season of the Hindi gaming reality show Playground on Amazon MX Player: 45 episodes, mentors Elvish Yadav, Munawar Faruqui, Mythpat, Mortal and later Uorfi Javed, 16 contestants in teams, won by Gaurav 'BT Android' Singh.
Playground Games
Playground Games, founded 2010 in Leamington Spa, is a British Xbox first-party studio behind Forza Horizon (with Turn 10) and the delayed Fable reboot; acquired by Microsoft May 30, 2018, distinct from its ex-staff spin-offs Lighthouse and Maverick Games.
Playground v2.5
Playground v2.5 is a 3-billion-parameter open-weights text-to-image diffusion model released by Playground in February 2024, using the Stable Diffusion XL architecture trained from scratch for higher aesthetic quality.