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Wars (series)
The ''Wars'' series, also known as and is a series of military-themed turn-based strategy video games, predominantly developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The series debuted in Japan in August of 1988 with the original ''Famicom Wars'', followed by sequels on the Super Famicom and Game Boy. These early installments were released in Japan, with ''Advance Wars'' (2001) being the first to reach the North American and European markets. ''Advance Wars'' was released in the United States on September 10, 2001, but put on hold in Japan and Europe due to the September 11 attacks. Although released in Europe in January 2002, neither Game Boy Advance game was released in Japan until the ''Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2'' compilation, which released for the Game Boy Advance on November 25, 2004. The success of ''Advance Wars'' in the West is frequently credited as a driving force for Nintendo bringing Intelligent Systems' franchise ''Fire Emblem'' outside of Japan, as both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelligent Systems
is a Japanese video game developer best known for developing games published by Nintendo with the ''Fire Emblem'', ''Paper Mario'', ''Wario_(series)#WarioWare_series, WarioWare'', and ''Wars (series), Wars'' video game series. The company was headquartered at the Nintendo Kyoto Research Center in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, and moved to a building near Nintendo's main headquarters in October 2013. They were responsible for the creation of various development hardware both first- and third-party developers used to make games for Nintendo systems, such as the IS Nitro Emulator, the development kit for the Nintendo DS. History Intelligent Systems started when programmer Toru Narihiro was hired by Nintendo to port Famicom Disk System software to the standard ROM-cartridge format that was being used outside Japan on the Nintendo Entertainment System, NES. Similarly to the origins of HAL Laboratory, the team became an auxiliary program unit for Nintendo that provided system tools and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Re-Boot Camp
In computing, rebooting is the process by which a running computer system is restarted, either intentionally or unintentionally. Reboots can be either a cold reboot (alternatively known as a hard reboot) in which the power to the system is physically turned off and back on again (causing an initial boot of the machine); or a warm reboot (or soft reboot) in which the system restarts while still powered up. The term restart (as a system command) is used to refer to a reboot when the operating system closes all programs and finalizes all pending input and output operations before initiating a soft reboot. Terminology Etymology Early electronic computers (like the IBM 1401) had no operating system and little internal memory. The input was often a stack of punch cards or via a switch register. On systems with cards, the computer was initiated by pressing a start button that performed a single command - "read a card". This first card then instructed the machine to read more card ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E3 2021
The Electronic Entertainment Experience 2021 (E3 2021) was the 26th and final E3, during which hardware manufacturers, software developers, and publishers from the video game industry presented new and upcoming products. The event, organized by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), ran as a virtual, online-only event with free access to all, from June 12–15, 2021. Virtual events included keynote sessions from major publishers broadcast from a live stage in Los Angeles, an awards show, and a preview night, as well as helping companies to hold online private meetings with media and businesses. Because of the online-only nature, the event had been rebranded for the year as the Electronic Entertainment Experience rather than the standard Electronic Entertainment Expo. Greg Miller (Internet celebrity), Greg Miller, Jacki Jing, and Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez served as hosts of the virtual events. E3 2021 followed the cancelled E3 2020 event due to the Impact of the COVID-19 pand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
