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2012 In Video Gaming
Numerous video games were released in 2012. Many awards went to games such as '' Madden NFL 13'', '' NBA 2K13'', ''WWE '13'', '' Borderlands 2'', '' Far Cry 3'', '' Journey'', ''Mass Effect 3'', ''Dishonored'', '' The Walking Dead'', and '' XCOM: Enemy Unknown''. The year began with the worldwide release of Sony's handheld game console, the PlayStation Vita, originally launched in Japan in December 2011. The end of the year marked the worldwide release of Nintendo's home game console, the Wii U. Critically acclaimed titles Major awards Review Scores of 90+ Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. Highest-grossing games The following were 2012's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms). Events Notable deaths * Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th Annual D
16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. It is the fourth power of two. In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound similar. Mathematics 16 is the ninth composite number, and a square number: 42 = 4 × 4 (the first non-unitary fourth-power prime of the form ''p''4). It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . Sixteen is the only integer that equals ''m''''n'' and ''n''''m'', for some unequal integers ''m'' and ''n'' (m=4, n=2, or vice versa). It has this property because 2^=2\times 2. It is also equal to 32 (see tetration). The aliquot sum of 16 is 15, within an aliquot sequence of four composite members (16, 15, 9, 4, 3, 1, 0) that belong to the prime 3-aliquot tree. *Sixteen is the largest known integer , for which 2^n+1 is prime. *It is the first Erdős–Woods number. *There are 16 partially ordered sets with four unlabeled elements. 16 is the only numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sticker Star
is a 2012 role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. Following ''Super Paper Mario'' (2007), it is the fourth installment in the ''Paper Mario'' series and part of the larger Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise; it is the first game in the series released on a Handheld game console, handheld console. In the game, the protagonist Mario and a new ally named Kersti travel across the Mushroom Kingdom to retrieve the six Royal Stickers scattered by Bowser. The game was released in November 2012 in North America and December 2012 overseas. Unlike the previous ''Paper Mario'' games, ''Sticker Star'' uses a distinct papercraft visual style, which is heavily incorporated into its game mechanics, gameplay mechanics. ''Sticker Star'' introduces stickers, which are littered throughout the game world and serve as single-use item (gaming), items or power-ups, aiding the player in Role-playing battle systems, turn-based battles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
