PlayStation Now Has a Lexicon for Gaming Terms You May Not Understand

Is teabagging in there or is an Xbox exclusive?

Oh, so that’s what they meant by ADS in Fortnite. Knickers twisted for nothing.

I thought this meant PlayStation Now has a lexicon. Not PlayStation now has a lexicon lol

You know what, that's actually a good idea, even for veteran gamers like me, as the landscape is changing rapdily.
I'm sure some will cherrypick some definition, but it's a good initiative.

I've seen the word ganked recently in Yakuza Like A Dragon, didn't realise it actually meant anything apart from getting hit by a dustbin lorry which is what the word accompanies in the game lol

Weird list. It has terms like endgame, but missing more popular terms like post game and meta game.

Also for the terms it does have, it doesn't always have the most popular gaming definition. Like CPU will most often refer to a computer controlled character, not the part of the computer.

CRPG is just straight up wrong on this list. It means console role playing game, not classic role playing game.

A term they should have is just Boss. My non-gaming friends can't wrap their head around what a boss or a boss fight is in games.

@Angelus3K That's how I read it, but it didn't make much sense to do that now that Now has been retired.

I've heard ganking first in 2005 when WoW Classic launched. Stranglethorn introduced me to the term. Oh, the memories.

And for us oldies...ATD (at the doctors)
BTW (bring the wheelchair)
JSMA (just shat myself again)
HGBM (had a good bowel movement)
WTFMT (where the f**ks my teeth)

I must be getting old because I learned quite a bit. Although I haven’t played a multiplayer game in years.

Actually pretty well done

Never heard of CRPG - for me JRPG refers to classic RPG experiences (not necessarily Japanese).

@lolwhatno I thought ganking originated in MMO games. Like, you're just minding your own and then suddenly get jumped by another guild or in other words you get ganked.

CRPG actually stands for Computer Role Playing Game, not Classic Role Playing Game.

Also:

"Backwards compatibilty - The ability of a games console to run software created for prior consoles in the series. The PS5, for example, is backwards compatible with PS4 and is able to run the overwhelming majority of software created for that console."

The goalie saving the ball he just threw behind him is a nice touch.

Isn't "ganking" prison lingo, later adapted to gaming?

Looks like they got the one PlayStation employee who's not terribly out of touch to do this. Pretty neat and helpful.

Missing some stuff
GL good luck
HF have fun
G2g
Afk
Bio Biological Break (a toilet break)
Etc

Funny how I knew most of these, gotta give myself more credit for being an active gamer in communities enough to have heard all of these at least once.

The only one I'd never seen was "kiting" which I've done a lot in Dark Souls. Now I know the name, I always considered drawing enemies away from their starting locations was considered cheesing them. The more you know!

What's a Lexicon? 🤣🤔

I'm gonna aggro this ARPG and buff my combo and my DPS to get that endgame easter-egg with a finisher so I can git gud with haptic feedback and... no, I can't do this anymore

@Ridwaano
I would also add META to that list.

Funny enough I learned a lot of these from my days playing Vanilla WoW.

it's almost like PS management listens to Colin on Sacred Symbols because he mentioned how a lexicon of gaming terms would be a good idea (since there's so many nowadays and the list of terms only continues to grow).

• sidenote: it'd be super fun if any of the Push Square staff gets interviewed by Colin. since he cites your site as a resource every pod.

I thought “gank” means to steal something.

Ganking is hardly a new term… wtf.