Back in my grade school days, I was referred to as a "human dictionary," due to my (at the time) vast knowledge of words. Now that I think about it, I've learned a lot of said words from games. You know, the games that teachers/parents are always bashing because you supposedly don't learn anything from them, and your time would be much better spent reading books. With that said, I've learned the following from games off the top of my head:

Starcraft
progeny
fervent
incontrovertible
albeit
despondent
latency
dormant

Exile 3: Ruined World (funny thing is, the first thing you see in the game's intro is "exile: verb - to banish or expel)
exile
repertoire
tarry
awkward
smite
dispel
dexterity
agile
ambidextrous
dumbfounded
oaf

Phantasy Star 4
magnanimous
distortion

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
malevolent

Diablo
dyslexia
atrophy

Warcraft 3
lethargic

Grandia 2
behest
nostalgic
lament

7th Legion
immolate
equilibrium

BOOSH! from Haze

I already know these words, but it's the certain one that makes them new to me.

"METAL GEAR" from MGS1 when Snake shows his amazing talent for stating the obvious.

kraut - when used as a racial insult from COD3 online play (which I still insist had the best online out of any of the CoDs)

Genophage - an artificially created genetic disease making it near impossible for a species to replicate (Firefox says it isen't a word though)

I learned english from games. I started playing Redalert and Heretic when I was about seven years old, before I started taking english classes. As I continued that habit up until now, most of my practice in English and my first encounter with it was through games. That's kind of cool, iron curtain and nuclear missile launched were two of the first phrases I learned.

I'm actually quite disturbed that you learnt words from games, were the schools that bad? o.0
Not sure how old you have to be to go to grade school(I'm from England)but I'm pretty sure you should have probably known those words already.

I learned the meaning of one word while playing a particular game.

OBJECTION!

THE MEDIA

Blasphemy
Outrage
Lawsuit
Rockstar
Murder Simulator
What your children may be playing
FOX News

And they say that Video Games are a waste of time! HAHA.

Final Fantasy 12: GOD DAMN EVERYTHING. Seriously, I have no idea how anyone younger than I am will ever play it if they don't have a ready and dog-eared dictionary sitting faithfully at their side at all times. I consider myself to have a fairly robust vocabulary, and that was the first place I encountered the word "pharos", which I now use all the time.

Video games are pretty much the foundation of my English. But that's only because it's my second language.

I find it hilarious and appropriate that you learned the word "atrophy" from Diablo, Duck

zirnitra:
kraut - when used as a racial insult from COD3 online play (which I still insist had the best online out of any of the CoDs)

Genophage - an artificially created genetic disease making it near impossible for a species to replicate (Firefox says it isen't a word though)

Kraut's an extremely old term for Germans, you'll find it in the oldest of war films, especially the British centric ones.

And, err, as far as I'm aware, Genophage was made up by Bioware. Writers make up words all the times, Phillip Pullman's "Northern Lights" being a good example.

Trauma Center: Second Opinion/New Blood

Hemorrhage
Arrhythmia
Aneurysm
The list can go on...
Basically anything you could also learn from watching episodes of House.

Mr Wednesday:
Phillip Pullman's "Northern Lights" being a good example.

Northern Lights as in the term for Aurora Borealis? Been around for a long time.

Then again, 'twas brillig and the slithey toves did gire and gimble in the wabe.

Constitution
Remnant
Dexterity
Maul

When I was in grade school, Pokemon actually taught me a basic understanding of the English language.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Mr Wednesday:
Phillip Pullman's "Northern Lights" being a good example.

Northern Lights as in the term for Aurora Borealis? Been around for a long time.

Then again, 'twas brillig and the slithey toves did gire and gimble in the wabe.

all mimsy were the borogroves, and the moamrathes outgrabe

my vocabulary was fairly rich to begin with, so i can't recall any new words i learned... other than various 1337 speak when i played CS for the first time.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Mr Wednesday:
Phillip Pullman's "Northern Lights" being a good example.

Northern Lights as in the term for Aurora Borealis? Been around for a long time.

The book not the term.

Perhaps I should have said "Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, but I'm lazy.

WlknCntrdiction:
I'm actually quite disturbed that you learnt words from games, were the schools that bad? o.0
Not sure how old you have to be to go to grade school(I'm from England)but I'm pretty sure you should have probably known those words already.

According to wikipedia a grade school is the same as an elementary school. That means it's a quite early age, and I don't see it as strange that Wlkn didn't know the words at such an age. It doesn't have to mean the schools were bad either, as long as you encounter the word first in a game, it doesn't matter if you learn it at school later. It was still the game that thought you the word.

Words/Terms I learned from gaming?
Frag
Gibs
and Teabag.

I have games to thank for my good English. My garrmar isnt that great but im from sweden and i could speak it fluidly from the age 12

Now that I think of it, the only word I remember learning from video games recently was "levity" from Twilight Princess.

Oblivion:
Cur

Who knew that meant dog?

Mr Wednesday:

zirnitra:
kraut - when used as a racial insult from COD3 online play (which I still insist had the best online out of any of the CoDs)

Genophage - an artificially created genetic disease making it near impossible for a species to replicate (Firefox says it isen't a word though)

Kraut's an extremely old term for Germans, you'll find it in the oldest of war films, especially the British centric ones.

And, err, as far as I'm aware, Genophage was made up by Bioware. Writers make up words all the times, Phillip Pullman's "Northern Lights" being a good example.

yeah I sort of figured out it wasn't real when I wikied it and it only linked to mass affect page when I first heard it (I'm a complete Wiki addicted I look up everything and anything I don't know about) although if mass effect's plot gains greater noteworthiness and something similar to that weapon is created or contrived the media will most likely christen it after it. which usually does happen to those things created in fiction. although I must say I hope they don't ever create a 'genophage' :)

WlknCntrdiction:
I'm actually quite disturbed that you learnt words from games, were the schools that bad? o.0
Not sure how old you have to be to go to grade school(I'm from England)but I'm pretty sure you should have probably known those words already.

You have to remember Wlkn, not everyone has a level 12 intellect like you and not everyone on this forum speaks English as a first language.

I've been reading above my grade level since primary school, so the only things I learned were tactics, weapon terms, equipment terms, and lots of acronyms from the MGS series, and many other tactical shooters.

That's true. Hell of a lot of weapon names. And in extension games have caused me to practice my english a lot (and french) when I visit gaming forums, something I'd never do if I didn't play. It also got me into developing games, and that has taught me even more, does that count?

Hahaha, "Twing-Twang", anyone?

I learned various different homophobic insults from playing online, amongst them "shitstabber," "buttwelder," and "cocksmoker."

When I first got called a "buttwelder," I was laughing so hard I had a difficult time believing it was intended as a serious insult. ^_^;

WlknCntrdiction:
I'm actually quite disturbed that you learnt words from games, were the schools that bad? o.0
Not sure how old you have to be to go to grade school(I'm from England)but I'm pretty sure you should have probably known those words already.

Well I played Exile 3 at a young age (around 8) so even basic words like awkward were new to me at the time, despite starting elementary school at 5 (Canada). Also, I don't think I've even heard the word incontrovertible being used outside of that one mission in Brood War. I'm not even too sure that I can blame it on my elementary school sucking, although that is most likely the case. I was considered a genius there as far as vocabulary went.

Rashjun:
Oblivion:
Cur

Who knew that meant dog?

Right here.

I myself learned that one from Soul Calibur.

I have learned so many new words playing Call of Duty 4 online, but I can't say them here without getting banned.

After playing COD4 on XBOX live for a few months now I can honestly say that my grasp of the English language is probably deteriorating.

Although I have learnt some great put downs.
"Your mum has a 12ft vagina!" Excellent work.

ultra_v_89:
Hahaha, "Twing-Twang", anyone?

ah dammit got beaten to it!!

vigilante
castrated
a lot of annoying leetspeak words and things like "kiting" whatever theyd be called (goddam WoW)
botanist
skirmish
hind (as in helicopter)
teamkill - cant believe it hasnt been said

yea no normal words since i have an allright grasp of ..English (im Scottish its hard to say that)

oh almost forgot "i did your mum" my personal response is oh so you know she looks like a troll then. wow you MUST be lonely (its actually true she does and she isnt me so insulting her does sweet feck all to me)

if it wasn't for pokemon version red on the gameboy i wouldn't know how to read at all. i just lacked the enthusiasm to learn at school but because of that games heavy text based element it forced me to recognise key words which later helped me string sentences together which then lead to me reading. therefore if it wasn't for computer games i wouldn't be able to read.