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Canard PC
''Canard PC'' is an independent magazine founded in France in 2003 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly. The title ''Canard PC'' is a paronym, derived from ''Canard WC'', which is the French name for Toilet Duck. ''Canard PC''s independence from the game companies is recognized in the French video gaming circles. Canard PC has a sister magazine, ''Canard PC Hardware''. Independent studies have shown that ''Canard PC'' reviews many games not mentioned by other magazines or websites specialized in video games, and has a strong variation in its review scores. ''Canard PC'' Managing editor, Ivan Gaudé, recognized in a video games critics panel on a French network that they did not like scoring very much, but they felt they had to put them for their reviews because gamers wanted them. History In July 2003, some editors left the publishing staff of the French gaming monthly ''Joystick'' after its acquisition by Future Publishing Future plc is an international multimedia co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PC Game
A personal computer game, also known as a PC game or computer game, is a type of video game played on a personal computer (PC) rather than a video game console or arcade machine. Its defining characteristics include: more diverse and user-determined gaming hardware and software; and generally greater capacity in input, processing, video and audio output. The uncoordinated nature of the PC game market, and now its lack of physical media, make precisely assessing its size difficult. In 2018, the global PC games market was valued at about $27.7 billion. Home computer games became popular following the video game crash of 1983, leading to the era of the "bedroom coder". In the 1990s, PC games lost mass-market traction to console games, before enjoying a resurgence in the mid-2000s through digital distribution on services such as Steam and GOG.com. Newzoo reports that the ''PC gaming sector'' is the third-largest category (and estimated in decline) across all platforms , with the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paronym
Paronyms are words that are pronounced or written in a similar way but which have different lexical meanings. Paronyms contrast with homonyms, which are words with different meaning having the same pronunciation or spelling. Examples of English paronyms include: * '' alternately'' and '' alternatively'' * ''collision'' and ''collusion'' * ''conjuncture'' and ''conjecture'' * ''eclipse'' and ''ellipse'' * ''excise'' and ''exercise'' * ''prolepsis'' and ''proslepsis'' * ''continuous'' and ''contiguous'' * '' affect'' and ''effect'' * '' upmost'' and ''utmost'' * ''deprecate'' and ''depreciate'' The term ''paronym'' can also refer to words that are derived from the same root, i.e. cognate words. See also * -onym * Heteronym (linguistics) * Paronymic attraction * Word ladder Word ladder (also known as Doublets, word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, laddergrams, or word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
