Sentences with phrase «[multiplayer gaming»

Still, over the years, Kinect's importance in Microsoft's broader gaming ambitions has declined, leading to the rather decision to kill it.

It would be a big move for Nintendo, which hasn't attempted to bring its major gaming properties like Mario to the big screen in nearly 25 years.

I have two separate mining setups: a dedicated mining rig in the basement of my house, and the gaming PC in my office.

Vancouver app maker Voleo, meanwhile, is refreshing the investing club concept for the digital age by borrowing elements from gaming and social media.

And when I wasn't gaming, my GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti just lay there, doing nothing, not making me money.

In the world of blockbuster console gaming, that was a difficult prospect.

It also includes features like a coffee maker and a PlayStation 4 gaming system.

Kinect was pitched in 2010 as the next revolution in gaming.

The dog days of Zynga may be over — which means there's ample room for new gaming start - ups to emerge.

This resulted in positive news stories in gaming media.

Mark Scheinberg is the son of Isai Scheinberg, the mind behind online gambling pioneer PokerStars, founded in 2001 when the Internet gaming industry was still nascent.

In 2012, venture capitalists poured $ 853 million into gaming companies.

And over all of this looms the continuing possibility that Apple will eventually unleash its gaming catalog on the living rooms of the world by opening its app store to its inexpensive Apple TV set - top box as well.

In other words, Tista Games wants to become the HBO of gaming.

Ubisoft, a mega-player in the industry, recently put out a third quarter earnings report, which pointed to growth opportunities in the $ 30 billion PC gaming market (according to the company), so it's a promising industry.

Although the console was essentially a sleeker version of the original NES gaming console, released in 1983, it was built to accommodate modern televisions and came bundled with 30 video games from the 1980s.

For game developers, Facebook and Zynga's breakup last week was much - welcomed news: Now that the two company's official relationship has been severed (and Zynga will be free to develop its own gaming platform on Zynga.com), the social network will also no longer play favorites — giving other independent game developers a fair shake at the exposure and growth the Facebook platform can offer.

The new section will include editorial content about the competitive gaming industry via articles and videos, as well as event calendars, team rosters and rankings, and game statistics — quite similar to traditional sports coverage.

From playing cards, to taxis to love hotels, it's been a long road to producing iconic gaming systems.

Malaysian gambling king Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay explained to Christine Tan in 2016 why he did not believe in luck when running his fast - growing gaming and leisure empire.

«It is a console with a complicated controller setup and that means game makers have to create titles to fit with that, which is a problem,» said Kenji Ono, an independent gaming journalist.

While Kinect was viewed by many in the «hardcore» segment of the gaming population as a gimmick, Microsoft trudged on and tried to improve the sensor in the Xbox One.

In 2006, as the American government started to crack down on online gaming, his competitors began to drop out.

Gaming companies, in particular, have discovered that they can use Kickstarter, in conjunction with their other social media tools, to generate sales of a game before they even develop it.

According to statistics from AppData.com, which tracks the gaming industry, Zynga currently enjoys some 300 million monthly active users on Facebook's platform.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Revlo's platform helps these gaming influencers retain and engage their fan bases by facilitating things like contests, giveaways and rewards.

PCGamer also previews new game titles before they launch and reports on technology news outside the realm of gaming.

Even without it, Nvidia's revenue from gaming rose 29 percent to $ 1.74 billion in the fourth quarter, accounting for more than half of its total revenue.

The company finally entered mobile gaming last year by bringing its Super Mario Bros franchise to Apple's iPhones, but it still sees console gaming as central to its business.

Nintendo will stop making its NES Classic Edition console, a retro gaming device introduced in November that reprised older games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.

It's a new era in gaming that delivers entirely new ways to play wherever and whenever people want.

A Facebook spokeperson told AllThingsD last week that speculation over a Facebook foray into gaming wasn't on the table, saying, «We're not in the business of building games and we have no plans to do so.»

Meanwhile, Nintendo's portable - gaming business continues a downward spiral as gamers increasingly turn to smartphones and tablets to play video games.

Compared to a gaming company such as Kixeye, Tista Games is fairly scrappy — but its appraoch to gaming is unique.

After more than a decade growing the company, the Scheinbergs cashed out three years ago, selling to Amaya Gaming for $ 4.9 billion.

Adblock Plus is pitching this as a great package for publishers that know a lot of their readers are likely to be using ad - blockers — gaming sites, tech sites, and so on.

This year, South By Southwest is embracing the gamer spirit with the SXSW Gaming Expo, a three - day affair taking place from March 8 through 10 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas, with more than 50 exhibitors.

«There was plenty of speculation Zynga was getting referrals within the Facebook community that other gaming companies weren't getting, which helped drive Web traffic to Zynga games.»

Overall gaming hardware sales dropped 6 % to $ 168 million from the same month a year ago, NPD estimates, owing to flagging sales in previous - generation devices including Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

On the flipside, Netflixing for days on end, hardcore gaming, staring at goats, or simply doing nothing at all could be preferred ways to pass the time.

But Nintendo's hybrid gaming system — it's part - handheld, part - home console, hence the name — has topped the charts in four of the last six months since its launch in March 2017, NPD Group says.

The technology company focuses on gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and auto.

Star Trek actor and gay rights advocate George Takei wrote on Facebook there could be a boycott of Indianapolis» annual gaming convention, GenCon, over the law.

The company eventually plans to allow crypto payments in its casual gaming, augmented reality, and virtual reality efforts, though it did not give a timeline for its integration there.

SXSW screwed up last October when it canceled two panels that revolved around Gamergate, an ongoing debate in the video game community about the way women are portrayed in the gaming culture.

But for Facebook to continue growth in its gaming revenue, it needs to branch out.

In October 2015, rumors surfaced that the company was in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a well - known organizer of video game tournaments, though Activision (atvi) ultimately acquired the company earlier this year for $ 46 million.

Analysts also say Nvidia's competitive advantage is only likely to increase when it moves its Volta chip architecture, launched last year and only currently present in data - center GPUs, into gaming chips later this year.

Historically, Activision has worked with Major League Gaming (MLG) and other event vendors with Call of Duty eSports, but the publisher is now running its eSports internally.