Exam 3: Digital Gaming and the Media Playground

Which of the following is an example of a subscription payment game?

Myst is an example of a typically nonconfrontational ______ game.

Down from its 2010 peak of 12 million subscribers to 5.5 million in 2016, what is the most popular MMORPG?

What is a dynamic ad? How is it used in gaming?

In 1975, Atari began successfully marketing a home version of Pong through an exclusive deal with ______.

Game developer King specializes in casual games such as ______.

Digital games evolved from their simplest forms in the arcade into which of the following formats?

In 2015, about how many people played fantasy sports in the United States and Canada?

One way of charting the evolution of consoles is to track the number of bits (binary digits) that they can process at one time: the higher the bit rating, the more detailed and sophisticated the graphics.

The term ______ describes how interactive game experiences are being embedded to bring competition and rewards to everyday activities.

The first home television game was called Pong.

Briefly describe the process of digital game development.

In virtual gaming communities, clueless beginners are called ______.

By the late nineteenth century, the availability of leisure time sparked the creation of mechanical games like pinball.

Temporary gaming teams usually assembled by match-making programs integrated into the game are called ______.

Childsplay.com is perhaps the best-known of the independent community-building sites.

Maze games like Pac-Man fit into the ______ genre.

The most inexperienced game players join organized groups called guilds or clans.

Forty-three percent of U.S. gamers play games on smartphones.

Many of the most popular early first-person shooter games like Doom and Quake were developed for ______.