Hello, and again a new Nvidia Driver! Feel free to comment. New in Release 186.18 Numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation. Installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428. Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here. New in Release 185/186 [...]

First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre which centers the gameplay around gun- or projectile weapon-based combat through the first person perspective; i.e., the action is seen through the eyes of a protagonist, and thus the player. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other shooter games, which in turn fall under [...]

PunkBuster is a computer program published by Even Balance, Inc. Its purpose is to prevent cheating in online games by banning players. It has been deployed in several popular multiplayer online games, including the Battlefield series, America’s Army, Crysis, F.E.A.R., Medal of Honor series, Call of Duty series, Quake III Arena, Joint Operations, War Rock, [...]

A multiplayer video game is one which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time. Unlike most other games, computer and video games are often single-player activities that pit the player against preprogrammed challenges and/or AI-controlled opponents, which often lack the flexibility and ingenuity of regular human thinking. [...]

Death match (DM) Death match is an all out frag fest, there’s really nothing else to it. The game ends when the time limit or frag limit has been reached. Tactic factor = tbd Strategy factor = tbd Fun factor = tbd Skill factor = tbd Team death match (TDM) Team death match is the [...]

Cheating in online games are activities that modify the game experience to give one player an advantage over another player(s); depending on the game, different activities constitute cheating and it is often a matter of consensus opinion as to which particular activity or activities actually constitute cheating. Clive Thompson writes that “Johann Huizinga, one of [...]

Wargames are simulations of military battles, campaigns or entire wars. Players will have to consider situations that are analogous to the situations faced by leaders of historical battles. As such, war games are usually heavy on simulation elements, and while they are all “strategy games”, they can also be “strategic” or “tactical” in the military [...]

Real-time strategy (RTS) games are a genre of computer wargames which do not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II. In an RTS, as in other wargames, the participants position and maneuver units and structures under their control to secure areas of the map and/or destroy [...]

Real-time tactics (RTT) is a subgenre of tactical wargames played in real-time simulating the considerations and circumstances of operational warfare and military tactics. It is also sometimes considered a subgenre of real-time strategy and may in this context exist as an element of gameplay or as a basis for the whole game. It is differentiated [...]

Strategy video games are a genre of video game that emphasize skillful thinking and planning in order to achieve victory.They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Strategy games played on computers generally take one of four archetypal forms, depending on whether the game is turn-based or real-time and whether the game’s focus is upon [...]