Sentences with phrase «social games on»

Thanks to World of Warcraft and social games on Facebook, gaming is becoming a bigger part of our culture than it has ever been.

There are truly games for everyone whether you prefer social games on PC, motion controller based party games or more traditional hardcore FPS games.

And considering how iMafia was one of the first popular social games on iOS, and that there's not a whole lot of mafia - style games on mobile now, there may just be potential for this to be a hit regardless of how the console game is received.

Social games on mobile apps might be more in line with your interests.

At EA, Schappert helped spearhead the effort to boost the company's digital business through games for mobile devices, as well as social games on Facebook.

This includes both mobile games and social games on their social media platforms like QQ, which has 805.5 million active users.

Dusing says «300 million people play social games on Facebook.»

«What you're seeing with all the social gamers on Facebook... they are actually already playing strategy games whether they know it or not.

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.

While Nintendo (ntdoy) is known for its mark on the video game industry, Miitomo served as social app, allowing users to communication and create Miis, which serve as Nintendo's avatars.

Twitter has also added to its slate of sports programming by announcing new deals on Monday that will allow the social network to broadcast MLB and NHL games as well.

The overwhelming majority of those smaller businesses — 84 % — are working on mobile games, nearly half on web games and almost a third on social - networking games.

Most Social based on Seevibes ratings for the week of Mar. 17 - 23 (Game of Thrones for the night of Mar. 31.)

Facebook and Major League Baseball have signed a deal in which 25 baseball games will only be broadcast in the U.S. on the social network.

However, teens who spent more time on the internet, playing computer games, on social media, texting, using video chat, or watching TV were less happy.

We had YYZ on the shirts for the Wednesday playoff game, and someone [on social media] said «What, we're really proud of Pearson now?»

The games are mostly on Wednesday afternoons but stand as another foray into live sports for the social media company.»

Commercials can be skipped over entirely or easily ignored while playing a video game or chatting with a friend on social media.

We imagine the fiercely vigilant gamer community will have plenty of fun at his expense on social media and everywhere else they virtually lurk.

After facing criticism on social media when it pre-released its Super Bowl ad last week, automotive brand Audi is being praised for the gender pay equality - themed TV spot it aired during the game.

They include the light from our screens interfering with our circadian rhythms, social media promoting «emotional or cognitive arousal» that keeps us up, or simply people putting off going to bed to play just one more round of that Facebook game or post another pic on Instagram.

Touching on local, state and federal laws, it takes the guessing game out of what is and is not legal on social media for employees of businesses.

Some viewers had reacted on social media ahead of the game by lashing out at the car company and criticizing it for allegedly not practicing what was being advocated in the ad.

In many ways mobile web games are the ultimate mobile engagement ad unit: they allow a brand to engage its target audience at scale through the preferred activity on mobile, and to do so in a cost effective manner in a way that fosters social and viral growth.

So in order to get your small business noticed, you have to up your content game and keep an eye on the trends in social media, the blogosphere, and on the feedback you get from your audience.

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Nintendo has been fighting to maintain profits amid competition from games and social media apps on smartphones and other mobile devices.

Those games will be available in China to stream for free on Tencent's variety of platforms, including Tencent Sports and the company's flagship social network WeChat, which touts roughly 960 monthly active users and accounts for almost 30 % of China's mobile apps usage.

For the time being, the Super Bowl retains a kind of magical hold on sports fans, who want to watch the game in a social setting with family and friends.

In the fall, Hardwick will follow Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central's acclaimed late - night lineup with @Midnight, a new game show fueled by social media and the website Funny or Die.

The social network says it will crack down on spammy pages that try to game engagement and shares.

Netflix's»80s - inflected teaser for Stranger Things season 2 in Sunday's Super Bowl captured the most social - media buzz out of the 65 brands that advertised on Fox during the game.

«We're not competing so much with Amazon and eBay as we are with whatever game or social media you play with on your phone,» Blachman says.

«There was a golden age of social gaming which was mainly on the Facebook platform where games were built on a social platform,» says David Marcus, Facebook's vice president of messaging products.

There's not a lot of social tools or games, which is good because you won't get lost in all the features as you may on other sites.

He says, «Playing online games is becoming more of a social activity,» adding that the gaming industry is worth over $ 100 billion worldwide, with PC games making up about $ 30 billion on their own.

The game draws on academic publications about «social and emotional learning skills,» an often ignored sector of education.

Twitter said on Wednesday it would carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue before its highly anticipated initial public offering.

Arcade games that were popular in the early»80s are reentering the social sphere thanks to savvy bar operators who know that a bit of Super Mario is better with mead on hand.

But the shortcomings of one game don't mean that augmented reality itself is a flop — if anything, Pokémon Go has whetted audience hunger for a more developed take on gaming that integrates real - world movement and social interaction.

The game, in which players climb the Los Angeles social ladder, is on track to earn $ 200 million dollars annually, according to analysts.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 1 - Facebook Inc is entering the dating game, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, planning a dating service to matchmake millions of people on the world's largest online social network and nudge them into spending more time there.

That people would not only play a game while driving, but openly acknowledge it on social media, shows how inadequate public awareness campaigns around the problem have been.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.

Five days after its release, the game now is on more Android phones than dating app Tinder, and its rate of daily active users was neck and neck with social network Twitter (twtr), according to analytics firm SimilarWeb.

The brand's fans and a handful of fashion bloggers, such as Marie Denee (aka The Curvy Fashionista), expressed their shock and displeasure on social media, prompting a team of former employers and new players to get back in the game.

Zynga games, like «FarmVille» and «Mafia Wars,» will still be available on Facebook's social network, but those games will no longer feature cross-promotions directing users to Zynga's standalone website.

Pincus helped create Zynga in 2007 and the company soon gained millions of monthly active users through popular social games played on mobile devices and networks such as Facebook (FB), including FarmVille and Zynga Poker.

Reporting from San Francisco — The 700 people lucky enough to work for online social - games maker Zynga Game Network Inc. feast on exotic gourmet grub prepared by professional chefs.

They'll have competition from a new Google - backed startup called Arcade, which is focusing on developing trivia and other social games.