The gaming world over the past half a decade or so has really exploded with online games taking over such a large part of people’s times. With gaming competitions having cash prizes of millions of dollars and there being talks of Sky and mainstream TV channels beginning to stream the finals of some eSports events, there’s definitely interest in the area. However, with gaming, there comes quite a few new wording terms that you’re going to have to get used to. We’ve decided to pick 10 of the most used and popular terms that gamers casually use when communicating.
A Patch most commonly refers to when developers release a small update to a game that fixes some problems that fans have reported upon. In recent years, patches have been a way for more Indie developers and smaller developer groups to release quite large updates including new content to their games.
