UrbanIdea 2025 Year in Review

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2.5d graphics

2d graphics

360 no-scope

3d graphics

4k resolution

8k resolution

A

Aac (advanced audio coding)

Abandonware

Achievement hunter

Achievement

Acoustic echo cancellation (aec)

Acoustic suspension

Action game

Action point (ap)

Action role-playing game (arpg)

Actions per minute (apm)

Active noise canceling (anc)

Active noise control

Active speakers

Adaptive ai

Adaptive music

Adc (analog-to-digital converter)

Address bar

Advance and secure (aas)

Advanced linux sound architecture (alsa)

Adventure game

Aiming down sights (ads)

Alac (apple lossless audio codec)

Alpha release

Alternating (ac) current

Always-on drm

Ambient noise

Analog stick

Animation priority

Ap (app processor)

Application server

Arc (audio return channel)

Area of effect (aoe)

Arena shooter

Artificial intelligence (ai)

Asmr (autonomous sensory meridian response)

Assault mode

Asset flipping

Asymmetric gameplay

Asynchronous gameplay

Attenuation

Attract mode

Audio device

Audio frequency

Audio policy

Audio processor

Audio source (audiosource)

Audio utility library (audio_utils)

Audio/video bridging (avb)

Audioeffect, audioeffect

Audioflinger

Audiorecord

Audioresampler

Auditory perception

Augmented reality (ar)

Auto battler

Autoresponder

C

Campaign mode

Capacitance

Capacitive reactance

Capture the flag (ctf)

Career mode

Cartridge tilting

Casual gaming

Cec (consumer electronics control)

Center speaker

Certificate

Challenge mode

Character class

Character creator

Character select screen

Charge shot

Cheese (or cheesing)

Circle strafing

Clicker game

Clock/clocked

Closed beta

Closed headphones

Cloud computing

Cloud gaming

Cloud waste

Co-opetition

Coaxial driver

Collectible

Collision detection

Comb filter

Combo breaker

Command & conquer clone

Command grab

Competitive gaming

Completionist

Cone speaker

Console generation

Console wars

Control scheme

Copy protection

Cover system

Critical frequency

Critical hit

Cross-browser

Cross-platform play

Crossover frequency

Crossover network (filter)

Crowd control (cc)

Current (i)

Cyberbullying

Cybersquatter

D

D’appolito design

Dac (digital-to-analog converter)

Daily quests

Damage over time (dot)

Damage per second (dps)

Damage sponge

Damping factor

Damping material

Db spl (decibel sound pressure level)

Decibel (db)

Defense buff

Del.icio.us

Denial of service

Diaphragm material

Differential-mode

Difficulty level

Diffraction

Digital footprint

Digital rights management (drm)

Digital signal processor (dsp)

Din connector

Direct current (dc)

Direct digital marketing

Direct emitter

Direct sound

Distortion factor

Dlc (downloadable content)

Dolby atmos

Dolby digital (plus)

Dolby pro logic

Dolby surround

Dolby truehd

Dolby vision

Domain name

Domain suffix

Dome tweeter

Down-firing subwoofer

Dpu technik

Drag-and-drop

Draw distance

Drive-by download

Dsd (direct stream digital)

Dynamic difficulty adjustment (dda)

Dynamic range

Dynamic website

J

K

Kill steal (ks)

King of the hill (koth)

Kite/kiting

Ko (knockout)

M

Mail server

Manual save

Map control

Massively multiplayer online (mmo)

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (mmorpg)

Matchmaking

Maximum power rating

Media queries

Mediaplayer

Mediaserver

Meta search engine

Metroidvania

Microblogging

Microtransaction

Midi (musical instrument digital interface)

Midrange (mids)

Mobile high-definition link (mhl)

Mode select

Mofset (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors)

Mono (monophonic)

Monster closet

Monster hunter clone

Monster party

Monster tamer

Monster trainer

Mouse acceleration

Mouse sensitivity

Movement speed

Moving coil

Moving magnet

Mp (magic points)

Multi-room audio (multiroom systems)

Multichannel

Multiplayer online game

Multiplayer-only game

Multiplayer

Music cassette

Mvp (most valuable player)

Mythic raid

P

P2p (peer-to-peer)

P2w (pay-to-win)

Pacifist run

Parked domain

Passive crossover

Passive noise canceling

Passive radiator

Passive skill

Passive speaker

Pathfinding

Pcm (pulse-code modulation)

Personal url

Phase coherence

Phase distortion

Phone connector

Phono connector

Phono pre-amp

Physics engine

Pick-up group (pug)

Pk (player killing)

Platform exclusive

Playable character (pc)

Player versus environment (pve)

Player versus player (pvp)

Pmpo (peak music power)

Pog (play of the game)

Point-and-click

Point-source

Polygon count

Ported enclosure (ported box)

Power amplifier

Power creep

Power leveling

Practice mode

Pre-amplifier

Procedural generation

Progression

Proxy server

Pulse code modulation (pcm)

Pulse-density modulation (pdm)

Pulse-width modulation (pwm)

Push terminals

Puzzle game

Q

Qte (quick time event)

Quest chain

Quest giver

Quest marker

S

Sample rate (frame rate)

Sample rate converter

Sampling rate

Satellite speaker

Save scumming

Sealed enclosure

Search engine

Season pass

Secret level

Sensitivity

Server browser

Shot caller

Signal generator

Signal-to-noise (s/n)

Silent disco

Silent mode

Single reflex bandpass enclosure (4th order bandpass)

Single-player

Social engineering

Social media

Social networking

Sonification

Sound emission

Sound filter

Sound pressure level (spl)

Sound stage

Source device

Spawn camping

Spdif (sony/philips digital interface format)

Splash damage

Split screen

Stagefright

Standing wave

Starter pack

Static website

Status effect

Stereo (stereophonic)

Stereo widening

Stream type

Streaming audio

Surround (suspension)

Surround sound

Survival game

Sweaty lobby

V

Vertical sync (v-sync)

Vr (virtual reality)

X

Xp (experience points)

Y

Z

Zone control