Sentences with phrase «game other companies»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

But that comparison misses a fundamental piece of Nintendo's history: games made by companies other than Nintendo.

In the future, if a mobile or online game company wants to position itself as a way to boost memory of any other aspect of cognitive performance, it will likely need rigorous scientific validation to back it up — and quite possibly, approval from the FDA.

«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.»

The program also includes the ability for gamers to stream their gameplay in smooth 1080p with 60 fps, and Facebook is looking to add distribution of videos to other company properties, including Oculus and Instagram.

Banks and other big companies employ lots of smart people to figure out ways to game the system.

Publicity for the game, developed in the company's Montreal studio and six other worldwide outposts, has started rolling with the release of a new game trailer.

Microsoft, for one, opened a new studio last year that is devoted to creating Kinect games, while other, smaller game companies quickly moved to try and snap up employees laid off by Radical.

In its heyday, it was by far the most popular company on Facebook, but lost lustre in recent years as people moved on to other games and to mobile devices.

I read the funniest thing the other day courtesy of The Wall Street Journal: «Google Inc. is developing a video game console and wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.»

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

Although Facebook (fb) doesn't operate a web browser like other tech companies, many developers and companies have built video games for the social network that use Flash.

Some, of course, may be understated, others, like a video game your kids play, have to have certain stages attained before they can be accomplished, but the seeds for your company's goals all lie in the structure that you build long before the doors ever opened.

And yet, the clock is ticking for the most valuable company in the world, as the aggressive moves made by the other major players could squeeze Apple out before it even has a chance to get in the game.

In conjunction with a disappointing first quarter earnings report, the company announced that it will back out of in - house game development entirely, shuttering its Avalanche studio, and instead licensing its properties to other developers.

With that in mind, Cramer went over his game plan for the coming week, with earnings from Apple, BP and other top companies.

Meanwhile, when the company uses a robot to install windows, it still needs one worker on site to run it using what looks like a video game console and the other to help position the window by hand.

The Bird - Erving match - up is an exam ple of a new type of computer game being developed by Electronic Arts and other innovative game - and - educational - software companies.

And if that isn't enough, two companies are currently hard at work developing a 1,000 - seat facility in Oakland's Jack London Square for the sole purpose of watching other people play video games, aka eSports, a $ 463 million global business this year.

It was reported two weeks ago that Sony Pictures Entertainment will play ball with video game publisher / developer Ubisoft — appeasing what others have called unreasonable demands — in order to make a movie out of the company's massively successful, Montreal - developed franchise, Assassin's Creed.

Pokemon Go will offer retailers and other companies the option to sponsor locations, and advertisers would pay Niantic based on the number of visits they receive as a result of the game.

The private, Kirkland, Wash. - based company last week announced a new video game console, operating system and game controller that, other than a pure commercial play, could be interpreted as the PC - focused company's effort to arrest ongoing declines in PC gaming generally.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

At last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, I asked Dennis Durkin, chief operating and finance officer for Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, if the vertically integrated approach with the video game console could be applied to other parts of the company.

The direct listing didn't change the game in part because Spotify is a unique company whose attributes don't translate to many other firms approaching the public markets.

There are other game companies that have tried to mimic the movie, where the appeal is to relive the movie and immerse yourself in it.

Other big companies such as Microsoft, Activision Publishing, and Capcom have been investing in growing the console market with games such as Halo 5, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Street Fighter IV.

In a stroke of good timing, gaming company Zynga announced on Saturday that it is now testing out Bitcoin as a payment option for virtual - good purchases in its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and others.

That's up 8 % over last year, thanks in part to an expanded IEM Expo featuring 43 booths from gaming companies and other partners interested in the gamer audience.

When games such as Sword and Sworcery — or those from the other companies profiled in this series, such as Chat Fu, Guacamelee, Spellirium or Mark of the Ninja — are made here and kept here, the intellectual property behind them also remains.

And Emotiv has to do it while taming persistent hiccups in the system, herding video - game producers into tailoring games to the device, and trying to halt a skidding launch date before competitors — yes, there are other companies making mind - reading devices — pick off pieces of the market.

One of the company's investors, popular science writer Stephen Johnson, aimed to explain the difference between asking a question on Jelly versus other platforms, noting, «How much is the new Battlefield 4 game?»

The other issue with Gizmodo's article — with Microsoft's reversal, actually — is the lament about how the company has taken away the ability to share digitally downloaded games with family or friends.

Finally, the company might point out that their product isn't the only game in town, and that if they don't meet a repressive regime's web - filtering needs, then surely some other company will.

For some, the end game might even include being acquired by Comcast or Verizon or some other deep - pocketed tech company.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, HP Enterprise's Meg Whitman, Cisco's (CSCO) Chuck Robbins and other execs at these companies are betting that we're still very early in the cloud adoption game, and that there is thus time to catch up.

«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,» said Digital World Research's McNealy.

Some make it a game: At Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, the fried - chicken chain owned by AFC Enterprises Inc., the company pits franchisees against each other in a friendly competition for the fastest drive - thru times.

After all, Facebook has long since courted other game - making companies besides Zynga, including Wooga and King.com.

Since many of the original provisions between the companies have changed, and Zynga is being treated as any other game maker on the platform, it's possible the new provisions are just being spelled out explicitly in Zynga's 8 - K filing on Thursday.

Both Internet companies have been trying to reduce their inter-dependence, with Zynga starting up its own Zynga.com platform, and Facebook wooing other games developers.

We will still see Disney properties appear in video games, though: the company announced that it will continue to license out properties to other developers and publishers.

Nintendo, as a company, has feared piracy since the internet's advent, and that fear has continually led to odd solutions with regard to networking, file transfers, game ownership and other online situations.

Almost immediately, Zynga, the creator of social games like Farmville, as well as other companies with offices outside the special tax zone, tried to broaden the terms of the tax break so that it would include them.

«Organic» search optimization is a game only big companies like Amazon and black hats can win at, and paid search is too expensive and vulnerable to ad blockers, click fraud and other nonsense.

Still, Al - Naji sees Basis playing a winner - takes - all game, in what investor Deshpande and presumably the company's other backers see as a multi — billion opportunity.

Despite being known as the Capital of Mobile Games, Chengdu has fostered a range of excellent companies in different sectors, including mobile game developer, Long Mobile, photo service Camera360, streaming projector XGIMI, among others.

Could that be a zero - sum game for other stocks — and the companies attached to them?

But under US trade law and WTO rules, it's fair game for America (and other countries) to slap tariffs on underpriced imports from certain companies if they can prove it's harming local industries.