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The ___MASK73___ is a home video game console developed by Microsoft . As the successor to the original Xbox , it is the second console in the Xbox series . The ___MASK73___ competed with Sony ' s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . The ___MASK73___ was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12 , 2005 , with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ). F . E . A . R . First Encounter Assault Recon is a survival horror first - person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by Sierra Entertainment . It was released on October 17 , 2005 , for Microsoft Windows , and ported by Day 1 Studios to the ___MASK73___ and PlayStation 3 . Timegate Studios has released two expansion packs , " F . E . A . R . Extraction Point " in October 2006 , and " F . E . A . R . Perseus Mandate " in November 2007 . A direct sequel titled "", was released in February 2009 , and a second sequel , " F . 3 . A . R .", was released in June 2011 , though it was developed by Day 1 Studios ( now known as Wargaming Chicago - Baltimore ), not by Monolith Productions . The ___MASK83___ ( abbreviated as PS2 ) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment . It is the successor to the PlayStation , and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles . It was released on March 4 , 2000 in Japan , October 26 , 2000 in North America , November 24 , 2000 in Europe , and November 17 , 2000 in Australia . It competed with Sega ' s ___MASK30___ , Microsoft ' s Xbox , and Nintendo ' s GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles . F . E . A . R . 2 : Project Origin is a first - person shooter survival horror video game , developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros . for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 and ___MASK73___ . It is the sequel to F . E . A . R . and is the second game in the F . E . A . R . series . It was released on February 10 , 2009 and was made available on Steam two days later on February 12 , 2009 . An expansion , F . E . A . R . 2 : Reborn , was released on September 3 , 2009 . Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells ___MASK18___ software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or ___MASK18___ monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can produce two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . F . E . A . R . Extraction Point is an expansion pack for the psychological horror first - person shooter video game " F . E . A . R .", published by Sierra Entertainment and developed by TimeGate Studios ( rather than Monolith Productions , the developers of " F . E . A . R ."). It was released on October 24 , 2006 for Microsoft Windows and requires the full original game in order to be played . Also , a stand - alone single player demo has been previously released . The expansion was ported to the ___MASK73___ and released as part of the F . E . A . R . Files package on November 6 , 2007 . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists of several families of operating systems , each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows 10 Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile . Monolith Productions ( or simply Monolith ) is a Kirkland , Washington - based Video game developer founded in October 1994 by Brian Goble , Garrett Price , Paul Renault , Toby Gladwell , Brian Waite and Jace Hall . The Company is known for their games " Blood ", the " No One Lives Forever " series , " F . E . A . R " and more recently , "". Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine ___MASK15___ , which has been used for most of their games and premièred with "" in September 1998 ; they also used Brian Goble ' s Windows Animation Package 32 engine for their 2D games . Between 1997 and 1999 , Monolith also published games , some developed by the studio , some by third parties . Survival horror is a subgenre of video games inspired by horror fiction that focuses on survival of the character as the game tries to frighten players with either horror graphics or scary ambience . Although combat can be part of the gameplay , the player is made to feel less in control than in typical action games through limited ammunition , health , speed and ___MASK8___ , or through various obstructions of the player ' s interaction with the game mechanics . The player is also challenged to find items that unlock the path to new areas and solve puzzles to proceed in the game . Games make use of strong horror themes , like dark maze - like environments and unexpected attacks from enemies . The user interface ( UI ), in the industrial design field of human  ___MASK18___ interaction , is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur . The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine from the human end , whilst the machine simultaneously feeds back information that aids the operators ' decision - making process . Examples of this broad concept of user interfaces include the interactive aspects of ___MASK18___ operating systems , hand tools , heavy machinery operator controls , and process controls . The design considerations applicable when creating user interfaces are related to or involve such disciplines as ergonomics and psychology . The PlayStation 3 ( abbreviated as PS3 ) is a home video game console developed by Sony ___MASK18___ Entertainment . It is the successor to ___MASK83___ , and is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles . It competed with Microsoft ' s Xbox 360 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . It was first released on November 11 , 2006 , in Japan , November 17 , 2006 in North America , and March 27 , 2007 in Europe and Australia . The ___MASK12___ is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19 , 2006 . As a seventh - generation console , the ___MASK12___ competed with Microsoft ' s ___MASK73___ and Sony ' s PlayStation 3 . Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others . , the ___MASK12___ leads its generation over PlayStation 3 and ___MASK73___ in worldwide sales , with more than 101 million units sold ; in December 2009 , the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States . The original console in the series was the first video game console to ship 100 million units , 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch . Its successor , the ___MASK83___ , was released in 2000 . The ___MASK83___ is the best - selling home console to date , having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28 , 2012 . Sony ' s next console , the PlayStation 3 , was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013 . Sony ' s latest console , the PlayStation 4 , was released in 2013 , selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale , becoming the fastest selling console in history . ___MASK15___ is a game engine which was initially developed by Monolith Productions in collaboration with Microsoft . Monolith later formed a separate company , ___MASK15___ Inc ., to deal with further advancements of the engine technology and currently , after a change of its corporate identity , ___MASK15___ Inc . is known as Touchdown Entertainment . Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows ___MASK18___ operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000 , which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS - DOS , both of which were updated in subsequent versions . This includes all versions of Windows 95 and Windows 98 . Windows ME is sometimes included . A ___MASK18___ monitor or a ___MASK18___ display is an electronic visual display for computers . A monitor usually comprises the display device , circuitry , casing , and power supply . The display device in modern monitors is typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal display ( TFT - LCD ) or a flat panel LED display , while older monitors used a cathode ray tubes ( CRT ). It can be connected to the ___MASK18___ via VGA , DVI , HDMI , DisplayPort , Thunderbolt , LVDS ( Low - voltage differential signaling ) or other proprietary connectors and signals . IBM PC compatible computers are those similar to the original IBM PC , XT , and AT , able to run the same software and support the same expansion cards as those . Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones , or IBM clones . They duplicate almost exactly all the significant features of the PC architecture , facilitated by IBM ' s choice of commodity hardware components and various manufacturers ' ability to reverse engineer the BIOS firmware using a " clean room design " technique . Columbia Data Products built the first clone of the IBM ___MASK16___ by a clean room implementation of its BIOS . A game engine is a software framework designed for the creation and development of video games . Developers use them to create games for consoles , mobile devices and personal computers . The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes a rendering engine ( renderer ) for 2D or 3D graphics , a physics engine or collision detection ( and collision response ), sound , scripting , animation , ___MASK53___ , networking , streaming , memory management , threading , localization support , scene graph , and may include video support for cinematics . The process of game development is often economized , in large part , by reusing / adapting the same game engine to create different games , or to make it easier to " port " games to multiple platforms . An operating system ( OS ) is system software that manages ___MASK18___ hardware and software resources and provides common services for ___MASK18___ programs . All ___MASK18___ programs , excluding firmware , require an operating system to function .