Killer Application

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Killer Application

An informal term for a computer program so much better than its competitors that it drives them all out of business.

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Using Killer Game Networking DNA technology, the card also classifies network traffic and separates game data for priority treatment, while reducing freezing, stuttering and other symptoms of lag.

New Gaming Combo card from Bigfoot and TUL

Andrew Davison's Killer Game Programming In Java (0596007302, $44.95) is another reference no game programmer should be without: there's been a traditional lack of support for Java high-end graphics and documentation, which Killer Game Programming In Java deftly remedies.

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The killer game in the second set was the ninth, Henman changing the pattern by breaking to love and again then holding with the minimum of fuss to book his place in the last 16.

Tennis: Henman ousts Kiefer in gruelling workout

THE search for the next killer game show continues.

Diverting entertainment

"Combine this with the 27 characters to choose from in multi-player games (includes enemy characters) and you have a killer game with custom characters for everyone's taste."

SEGASOFT NETWORKS LAUNCHES CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PC CD-ROM

Alarmed by the recent reports of two persons allegedly committing suicide in northern West Bengal, the India government has issued an advisory against the online killer game Momo challenge.

Alert: Government issues advisory against online game

Nicholl "It's a tough game, it's a brilliant game, but we have to make sure it's not a killer game."

Heading balls has left me brain-damaged... ex-villa star nicholl admits he can't remember where he lives

Will we be able to spot whether there's a killer game? Something like Halo, Gears, Resistance or the Game Featuring Kratos That Must Not Be Named - the kind of game that, no matter how much we grumble about always needing to be online, or how we just want a games console, not an all-in-one entertainment system, will just look so cool that we hand over our hard-earned dirhams?

EEE, by gum!

That will be the killer game and one we really need to win to progress in the campaign.