Complete Clue List
Across
2. 38D to a character in "Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail"
6. Left-most bit in a byte (abbr.)
10. In some parts of the world, term for video game ratings (pl.)
11. "Totally Accurate Battle Simulator" (abbr., sing.)
12. Computer's logical operation, exclusive or (abbr.)
13. Year (Lat.); think "p.a."
15. Video games ____ help improve cognitive functions
17. Low level weapons, possibly made of 20A
20. "____ Age Begins", prehistoric role-playing game
21. Russian ruler featuring in "____: The Burden of the Crown", real-time strategy game (pl.)
22. Regular Western US time zone (init.) important for online play
23. Statistical technique or exploding star seen in many video games?
25. Forerunner of smart phones (init.) and not as good for gameplay
26. Some libraries will ____ a console and video games
27. Wader in the "Threskiornithidae" family; not known for being angry
29. Video game characters Ada Wong and Chun Li are from this continent
30. Mournful music sometimes heard after dying in a video game
31. Mischievous creatures in "Little ____: A Dungeon Builder"
32. Slang for the drug grown in "Pot Farm" (2010)
33. Action game from Tandy (1983) about the chemical elements of the periodic table
34. Expression of surprise, possibly heard from British gamers
36. Groups of sailors, as might be found in "Age of Sail II" (2001)
37. Upward bend of planks at either end of a ship
39. Popular third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game
42. "Lost Soul ____": Action RPG inspired by "Final Fantasy XV"
44. Religious devotee, maybe found in "Prince of Persia" (1989)?
45. Shape sometimes found in circuits used in racing games (sing.)
47. Events in "Gran Turismo"
48. Video gamer's curse, particularly in online multiplayer events
50. "____ and the Ancient Mystery" (2019), 2D platformer with an eponymous fox
51. RTT: wargame genre focusing on logistics and production as much as combat (4-4, 7)
52. Currency and longing for Japanese gamers
53. Gamer's exclamation of triumph and surprise
Down
1. Tower defense game set in an apocalypse of undead corpses (6, 2, 7)
2. To stupefy, such as when a kill shot fails (Br. Eng.)
3. Together (arch.)
4. Exbibyte (abbr.): 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes. Enough storage for every game ever written?
5. "The Mummy" may have come from this place of pyramids in Egypt
6. Mr Rockatansky who was insane, according to the Australian game and movie franchise
7. "Mustela erminea", a short-tailed weasel rarely seen in video games
8. "Angry ____" 2009 video game that wants to destroy pigs
9. Situation where players rely on one another in a co-op game
13. In "Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile" (2000), is this snake a problem?
14. Computer's logical operation that changes the 6A
15. In the "President Elect" video game, you participate as a ____
16. In maze games, the player ____ through a virtual world
18. Destroy or obliterate, in a video game
19. US Govt. Dept. established by FDR in 1935 for disability and retirement benefits (init.)
23. South American mountain range, not part of "Mountain" (2014)
24. Helps commit a crime, as in "Grand Theft Auto"
26. Broken when 24D happens
28. "Flight ___" (abbr.) provides the experience of piloting aircraft without interference from 50D.
34. In "Sid Meier's Gettysburg!" (1997), the South (abbr.)
35. Clear a level of unwanted enemies, like many early video games
37. Urge to attack, a common theme in video games (or so it was written)
38. Shout of affirmation, sometimes heard among gamers
40. Keep score in a game
41. Fill with joy or pride: high scores will do this!
42. "If I were ____ ____ man", song from "Fiddler on the Roof" (1, 4)
43. Player controlled character in "Daze Before Christmas" (1994)
46. Hardware requirement for a video game (abbr.)
49. Form of rummy, found in online card games
50. US Govt. Dept. responsible for civil aviation safety (init.)