The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques,) are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports...
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Modern Games (foaled 17 April 2019) is a retired champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Ireland and trained in Great Britain, he was one of the best...
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1732, and these were translated from Latin to English in 1811. All modern tafl games are based on the 1811 translation, which had many errors. New rules...
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Tile-based game (redirect from Games/Tile based)
wide as they are thick, though games exist with square tiles, triangular tiles and even hexagonal tiles. Modern games may use unconventional non-tileable...
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to participate. The games were always held at Olympia rather than moving between different locations like the modern Olympic Games. Victors at the Olympics...
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Call of Duty (redirect from Call of Duty Modern Warfare)
Modern Warfare in 2019, Modern Warfare II in 2022, and Modern Warfare III in 2023. Infinity Ward has also developed two games outside of the Modern Warfare...
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games dates to the ancient human past. Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are...
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hosted the Games. Like the early games, the modern games had their challenges: for example, a decision on the sixth modern National Games in Ludhiana...
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chiefs. An example of a possible early games venue is at Fetteresso.[citation needed] The modern Highland games are largely a 19th-century development...
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1896 Summer Olympics (redirect from First modern Olympics)
Athens 1896 (Greek: Αθήνα 1896), were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC),...
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movement patterns, and in-game events dependent on the player's input. Modern games often implement existing techniques such as pathfinding and decision...
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Board game (redirect from Board games)
common game categories: Abstract strategy games – e.g. chess, checkers, Go, reversi, tafl games, or modern games such as Abalone, Dameo, Stratego, Hive,...
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Single-player video game (redirect from Single player video games)
modes. Most modern console games and arcade games are designed so that they can be played by a single player; although many of these games have modes that...
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Ball (section Modern ball games)
players for the ball. These games are known to us through the Romans, though the names are Greek. The various modern games played with a ball or balls...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a 2023 first-person shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It is the twentieth installment...
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evolving into a family of games that includes German Grosstarok and modern games such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen. In the late 18th century...
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on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via a relay system from Greece...
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cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated...
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Audio game (redirect from Audio Games)
games to explore the possibilities and limitations of this gaming form. Despite the increase in interest in audio games, however, many modern games still...
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Interactive fiction (redirect from Text adventure games)
quality and complexity of the games. Modern games go much further than the original "Adventure" style, improving upon Infocom games, which relied extensively...
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Dark fantasy (section Video games)
werewolves, vampires, zombies, homonculi, and human-monster hybrids. Modern games from Japanese game development and publishing company FromSoftware are...
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Saved game (redirect from Password (video games))
how to handle the case where the player received a "game over". More modern games with a heavier emphasis on storytelling are designed to allow the player...
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Retrogaming (redirect from Classic Games)
distinction between retro and modern is heavily debated, but it usually coincides with either the shift from 2D to 3D games (making the fourth the last...
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Modern Combat is a series of shooter video games developed and published by Gameloft mainly for Android and iOS. All installments in the series play similarly...
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"Patriot Games" is the twenty-second episode of the sixth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 142nd episode overall. It originally...
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Game balance (redirect from Nerf (computer games))
once for the entirety of a game, while in other games it can be changed freely at any point. Modern games, e.g. Horizon Zero Dawn, may also feature a difficulty...
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Score (game) (redirect from Score (video games))
replay value. In modern gaming, the presence of a score is not as ubiquitous as it was in the past. During the era of arcade games, when, because of...
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Atari VCS (2021 console) (section Games)
is intended to pay homage to the Atari 2600, the new Atari VCS plays modern games and streaming entertainment via a Linux-based operating system called...
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1896. It was the first Olympic Games held in the modern era. About 100,000 people attended for the opening of the games. The athletes came from 14 nations...
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Archery at the Summer Olympics (section Modern Games)
nations competed. 1972 marked the beginning of the modern archery competition at the Olympic Games. The events began to use standardized forms and many...
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