What type of games are Blokus and Splendor?
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Blokus Blokus ( ) is an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, invented by Bernard Tavitian and first released in 2000 by Sekkoïa, a French company. It has won several awards, including the Mensa Select award and the 2004 Teacher's Choice Award. In 2009, the game was sold to Mattel.
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Splendor (board game) Splendor is a multiplayer board game designed by Marc André and first published in 2014 by Space Cowboys. Players are gem merchants of the Renaissance buying gem mines, transportation, and shops. The game was nominated for the 2014 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year).
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Blandia Blandia (ブランディア , Burandia ) is a 1992 one-on-one, weapon-based fighting arcade game developed and published by Allumer. It is the sequel to the 1986 arcade game, "Gladiator". Along with Strata's "Time Killers", "Blandia" is one of the earliest weapon-based fighting games modeled after its competitor Capcom's 1991 arcade hit "Street Fighter II", but later became overshadowed by the success of SNK's 1993 weapon-based fighting game, "Samurai Shodown".
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XIII Century (series) XIII Century is a series of real-time tactics computer video games developed by Unicorn Studio and released in 2007. The series consists of the titles "XIII Century: Death or Glory", its stand-alone expansion "XIII Century: Blood of Europe", and a "XIII Century: Gold" release, which combines the two titles. The games are similar in interface and game play to those of the Total War series but feature a more complex battle mechanism, in which results are calculated for each individual soldier in the units and the corps mechanics are more realistic. The units possess different grades of AI (called "Self Control"), which give them the capability to evaluate the situation: a low-Self Control unit demands more management by the player.
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Platypus (video game) Platypus is a horizontal scrolling shooter game created by Anthony Flack. The player flies an antiquated spacecraft (the last of the fictional F-27 Platypus fleet) and attempts to defend the peaceful country of Mungola from neighboring Colossatropolis, which has become so overcrowded that its inhabitants are taking over Mungola for space and resources. The game consists of four levels, with five areas per level and a strong boss enemy that must be defeated at the end of the fifth area. The player can collect power-ups that affect the type and firing rate of the ship's weapons, equip auxiliary cannons, or activate defensive shields.
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Invisible Wonder Games Invisible Wonder Games is an independent video game developer of casual games. Their titles include, Gemolition, a match three puzzle game, Battlefortress, a 3D space shooter, and Bongo Bunnies, a music hand eye coordination game for children and adults. They have published games on the Apple App Store and online flash portals such as Kongregate and Newgrounds.
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ELEX ELEX (Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial) is an upcoming science fantasy themed action role-playing video game developed by Piranha Bytes and published by THQ Nordic for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows. The publisher has described the game as "edgy, dark, uncompromising, and complex", and it was featured as a cover story in the German magazine "GameStar". The protagonist joins the war for a powerful resource, "ELEX", which gives people great magic-like powers, and is a factor in deciding whether emotion and humaneness or cold synthetic logic will rule the world of Magalan. The game world will be a mix of futuristic and medieval locations, in which the player can use guns, swords and magic against enemies. The game will also feature a jet pack which can be used for the exploration of the game's environment.
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The Horde (video game) The Horde is a hybrid action-strategy video game that was originally released on the 3DO platform, but was soon after ported to the Sega Saturn and MS-DOS. It was an unusual hybrid of action and strategy game for the time. It also featured full-motion video sequences featuring a number of actors including Kirk Cameron as Chauncey and Michael Gregory as Kronus Maelor. Video sequences were reduced to slideshows (with full sound) in some versions.
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Unlight Unlight (アンライト～Unlight～ ) is a free-to-play collectible card battle and role-playing browser game developed by the Japanese company Techway. With multiple language versions including Japanese, Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Korean, French, Thai, and English, the game boasts a playership of two million across all platforms (Facebook, Niconico, Naver, Yahoo! Mobage, Mixi, and Koei Tecmo's myGAMECITY). It is the top engrossing Facebook game in Asia. In 2014, the game won gold in the foreign browser game category for the 2014 Game Star award at the Taipei Game Show. Set in a "medieval gothic" world, the player assumes the role of an automaton given life by a "Saint of Flame" to recover the memories of warriors who have died in another world.
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Age of Wonders III Age of Wonders III is a 4X turn-based strategy video game developed and published by Dutch developer Triumph Studios. It is the fourth game in the "Age of Wonders" series, following "Age of Wonders", "" and "" released in 1999, 2002, and 2003 respectively. It was released on March 31, 2014 through digital distribution, as well as through retail in select territories for Microsoft Windows. A port to Linux and OS X was released on April 14, 2015.
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Glory of the Roman Empire Glory of the Roman Empire is a 2006 city-building game set during the age of the Roman Empire, developed by Haemimont Games. The game was released on 26 June 2006 in the United States. The game features a three-dimensional game engine and individual modeling of game character behaviors. The game was released in Spain and Italy in December 2006 by FX Interactive under the name "Imperium Civitas". The difference in naming is explained by the popularity of Haemimont's previous games, Imperium I, II and III, which sold more than 1 million copies in these countries.
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Enlight Software Enlight Software is a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment. The company was founded by Trevor Chan in 1993, and their first project was the economic strategy game "Capitalism", which was published by Interactive Magic in 1995. In 1997, they released "Capitalism Plus" (an updated version of "Capitalism") and the real-time strategy game "Seven Kingdoms". Later games include "Virtual U", "Capitalism II", "", "", "Restaurant Empire", "Zoo Empire", "Marine Park Empire" and "Restaurant Empire II".
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Pikmin (series) Pikmin (ピクミン , Pikumin ) is a series of puzzle strategy video games created by Shigeru Miyamoto and published by Nintendo. The games focus on directing a horde of plant-like creatures called Pikmin in order to collect items by destroying obstacles, avoiding hazards and/or fighting fauna that are hazardous to both the player and the Pikmin.
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BlazBlue BlazBlue (Japanese: ブレイブルー , Hepburn: BureiBurū ) is a fighting video game series developed and published in Japan by Arc System Works, and later localized in North America by Aksys Games and in Europe by Zen United. An anime adaptation aired in the fall of 2013. The "BlazBlue" series has sold 1.7 million games as of August 2012.
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Tales of Vesperia Tales of Vesperia (Japanese: テイルズ オブ ヴェスペリア , Hepburn: Teiruzu Obu Vesuperia ) is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Namco Tales Studio for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (PS3). The tenth mainline entry in the "Tales series", it was published in Japan and North America by Namco Bandai Games in 2008, and in European territories by Atari in 2009. An expanded port of the game for the PS3 was released in 2009 in Japan, but has not been released in Western territories. The gameplay is similar to previous "Tales" games, featuring a new version of the series' trademark action-based Linear Motion Battle System, while also introducing new elements such as online scoring boards.
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British Academy Games Award for Game Design The British Academy Video Games Award for Game Design is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given in honor of "the best game design that captivates and engages the player", including recognition of elements such as game mechanics, use of controls, level and world structure, and pacing. The award was first given at the 8th British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony, held in 2012, with the Valve Corporation title "Portal 2" winning the award.
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List of best-selling Game Boy Advance video games The best-selling video games of all-time on the Game Boy Advance (GBA) are "Pokémon Ruby" and "Sapphire". First released in Japan on November 21, 2002, the games went on to sell over 16 million units worldwide. "Pokémon FireRed" and "LeafGreen", enhanced remakes of the original "Pokémon Red", "Green" and "Blue" games, are the second best-selling titles on the platform with sales in excess of 12 million copies. "Pokémon Emerald", the enhanced version of "Ruby" and "Sapphire", is third with sales of more than 7 million units. The top five is rounded out by "" and "", each of which sold over 5.5 million units.
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Battle Carnival Battle Carnival — is a free-to-play MMOFPS game. It was developed and published by Zepetto in 2016. By the end of the same year the game was also published by GameNet and became available in Russia and CIS.
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Quest for the Rings Quest for the Rings is a boardgame/video game hybrid for the Videopac. It is the first game in the Odyssey² "Master Strategy Series", and it was considered particularly innovative at the time of its release.
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BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale, released in Japan as BlazBlue: Battle × Battle (ぶれいぶるー　-バトル×バトル- , BureiBurū: Batoru kurosu Batoru ) , is a 3D arena fighting video game developed by Arc System Works. It was published in Japan by Arc System Works on January 27, 2010 and for the Nintendo DSi/Nintendo DSi XL. The game was released in North America on August 2, 2010.
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Perpetuum Perpetuum is a video game by Avatar Creations Ltd. It is a player-driven persistent-world MMORPG set in a science fiction ground setting. Players pilot customisable robots on various islands connected by several teleports. These islands are either alpha ('safe' from attacks by players) or beta/gamma, meaning players can freely engage each other.
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PlatinumGames PlatinumGames Inc. (プラチナゲームズ株式会社 , Purachina Gēmuzu Kabushiki Gaisha ) is a Japanese video game development company. The company was founded in October 2007, as result of the merger between Seeds Inc. and Odd Inc. The following year, video game publisher Sega announced that it would be publishing four unique properties developed by the company, which included "MadWorld", "Infinite Space", "Bayonetta", and "Vanquish". Their partnership later extended to include "Anarchy Reigns". However, none of these were a commercial success, even though most of them received high critical praise.