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The PlayStation 3 ( abbreviated as PS3 ) is a home video game console developed by Sony ___MASK4___ Entertainment . It is the successor to ___MASK1___ , 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 . 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 , ___MASK63___ , 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 expansion pack , expansion set , supplement , or simply expansion is an addition to an existing role - playing game , tabletop game or video game . These add - ons usually add new game areas , weapons , objects , characters and / or an extended storyline to complete an already released game . While board game expansions are typically designed by the original creator , video game developers sometimes contract out development of the expansion pack to a third - party company , ( see "" for " Diablo "), it may choose to develop the expansion itself or it may do both ( Ensemble Studios developed the real - time strategy game Age of Empires III and the first expansion called itself , but contracted Big Huge Games for the second expansion pack , the Asian Dynasties ). Board games and tabletop RPGs may have been marketing expansions since the 1970s , and video games have been releasing expansion packs since the 1980s , early examples being the " Dragon Slayer " games "" and " Sorcerian ". Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror literature , film , television , and video games ( as a narrative ) which relies on the character ' s fears and / or psychological instability to frighten readers , viewers or players . On a few occasions , Psychological horror overlaps with the psychological thriller subgenre , making whatever story of the genre more unpleasant as well as terrifyingly suspenseful . 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 ___MASK25___ 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 . 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 ___MASK25___ and released as part of the F . E . A . R . Files package on November 6 , 2007 . This expansion owes its name to the game ' s ultimate goal for the player , to reach the extraction point and leave the city where the adventure takes place . Extraction Point adds new weapons , enemies , and single - player levels , but no new multiplayer content . Additional improvements were also made to the enemy ___MASK63___ . The sequel to F . E . A . R . , F . E . A . R . 2 : Project Origin , ignores the events of both expansion packs . 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 ___MASK4___ 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 . The ___MASK25___ 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 ___MASK25___ competed with Sony ' s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . The ___MASK25___ 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 ). 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 ___MASK41___ , 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 . An operating system ( OS ) is system software that manages ___MASK4___ hardware and software resources and provides common services for ___MASK4___ programs . All ___MASK4___ programs , excluding firmware , require an operating system to function . In , Falcom released " Sorcerian Forever " for Microsoft Windows - based PCs . In , Falcom released " Sorcerian Original ", a remake of Sorcerian for Microsoft Windows - based PCs . In addition , console versions of Sorcerian with somewhat differing content from their PC counterparts were developed : A version for the Mega Drive was developed by Sega , a version for the PC Engine CD was developed by Victor Musical Industries , and a version for the ___MASK69___ was developed by Victor Interactive Software . ___MASK68___ is a game engine which was initially developed by Monolith Productions in collaboration with Microsoft . Monolith later formed a separate company , ___MASK68___ Inc ., to deal with further advancements of the engine technology and currently , after a change of its corporate identity , ___MASK68___ Inc . is known as Touchdown Entertainment . 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 . Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows ___MASK4___ 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 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 ___MASK4___ 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 . 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 ___MASK68___ , 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 . 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 ___MASK90___ by a clean room implementation of its BIOS . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a screen , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques ; by means of CGI and ___MASK4___ animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects .