(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(2) Months later the company released its free-to-play smartphone version of much-loved strategy classic, Dungeon Keeper, but the game was full of aggressively pushed in-app purchases.
(3) First-hand thoughts When I included the new Dungeon Keeper in my best apps of January roundups for Android and for iOS , there were some cross comments, asking why The Guardian would promote this game at the expense of other, more deserving titles.
(4) These projects will see existing Merlin brands such as The Dungeons adapted for the local market, in partnership with China Media Capital (CMC), it added.
(5) There are quite a few good things about new Dungeon Keeper: its sense of humour has survived the remaking process, and it’s visually polished.
(6) In the dungeons of Gaddafi, Mubarak or Assad they were beaten and hung from the walls, and in some cases had their genitals cut with a scalpel.
(7) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
(8) Ideally, I'd like to work towards being on a yacht in the Caribbean with a dungeon in the hold.
(9) The key innovation is a new Villain role, which allows one player to take on the role of a Dungeon Master, arranging enemy traps and attacks.
(10) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
(11) The result is an evolution for the series that lets players escape the linear dungeon-to-dungeon progression of its predecessors.
(12) Fifa sponsors’ pretence to principles give Blatter platform to make a stand | Marina Hyde Read more “Like the dungeon in the Fifa HQ, Fifa has become a very secretive place.
(13) That’s the implication (and, in fact, the straight accusation) of many of the game’s critics: that EA has ruined Dungeon Keeper and, by extension, this awful free-to-play business model is ruining games and screwing gamers.
(14) What I encountered was part reliquary, part freak show – and an impressive work of experience design, as stage-managed as anything in the London Dungeon .
(15) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
(16) Merlin, which also owns Madame Tussauds and the London Dungeon, will spend £53m over three years on the Nagoya park, while local partner Kirkbi Invest will raise the rest.
(17) Negative reviews The original Dungeon Keeper was brilliant.
(18) Positive reviews suggest the balance is much better than for the ill-fated Dungeon Keeper , released earlier in the year.
(19) Reynolds did paint histories, such as his scene from Dante of Ugolino and his children being starved to death in a dungeon, but, more successfully, he painted portraits that aspire to the condition of history.
(20) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
Oubliette
Definition:
(n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(2) Our friends were in the Oubliette, with its dungeon hidden below.