Sentences with phrase «as a game in»

Indeed, in Colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts shuffleboard was described as a game in which «much precious time is spent unfruitfully.»

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The PC, where video games were originally born, has also seen a renaissance as a platform thanks to Steam, the online distribution system started in 2002 by Valve Corp., based in Kirkland, Wash..

«As important, Wembley Stadium would return to private ownership and The Football Association would be able to focus on its core mission of developing players with the best player developers and facilities anywhere in the game, thanks in part to the vast financial benefit that would result from the transaction,» Khan said in a statement on Fulham's website.

Depending on the state in which you reside, your individual retirement account may be fair game for plaintiffs, as well.

Equity is an increasingly popular workplace perk, as it arguably creates loyalty in employees by literally giving them skin in the game.

Choose a competitive, expansive industry and it will force you to step up your game just as starting your own company forces you to stay in the game.

For instance: In 2012, Razer showcased a hybrid tablet / laptop that could be used as a (massive) handheld game console — it was called Project Fiona.

The independent game developer, founded in 2007, is known for mega-popular hits such as Backyard Monsters, which has more than 20 million activations.

Crammed into a small, fourth - floor office in Toronto's trendy Queen Street West area, he and his team of seven — collectively known as Blot Interactive — are crunching to get their first video game done.

While the innovation was initially used for purposes such as injecting pain sufferers with powerful opioids, it became a true game changer once insulin came on the scene in 1921.

The start - up, which has raised about $ 8 million, was founded in May 2010 and originated as a social network for gamers.

«Baseball games are uniquely engaging community experiences, as the chatter and rituals in the stands are often as meaningful to fans as the action on the diamond,» Dan Reed, Facebook's head of global sports partnerships, said in a statement.

«We know many of our fans enjoy pizza while watching NFL games and we are thrilled to have Pizza Hut, an industry leader and one of America's favorite brands, as an official league sponsor,» NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.

The cartoonist said in a note that originally appeared with the cartoon that by using his children «as political props» in a video ad that ran during an episode of Saturday Night Live, the senator had made them «fair game» for editorial criticism.

In this book, Ramsey coaches readers through the basics of personal finance, from paying off debt to building an emergency fund, providing «the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits,» as Amazon describes it.

Football games are the most dependable ratings - grabbers in television, with viewership increasing as the audience gets smaller for traditional network fare.

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.

And in a true sign of the times, the company lured Microsoft's Xbox boss and Vancouver native Don Mattrick — the most powerful man in video games — to take over as chief executive in July.

The study's authors found that peckish participants in a card game known as the «Iowa Gambling Task» played more shrewdly and made better decisions than those who had eaten.

Nintendo, in particular, has been posting heavy losses — $ 366 million in 2012 — as quick, casual games on smartphones have displaced its Game Boy 3DS handheld.

The surreal sets in when droves of eager Canadians, young and old, start hopping onto the ice as well, joining together to play a good old hockey game as an anthemic song plays in the background.

According to Sam Cooper, senior director for Call of Duty in Activision's marketing department, in today's video game business, any successful «AAA» franchise is as focused on post-launch engagement with fans as with the actual launch of the game.

If you're in the market for a new game console — and you're not a crazy person like me who buys every game console, regardless of logic — you're looking for one to serve as many of your wants as possible.

Whether these companies eventually end up stumbling in the face of notoriously fickle gamer interests, as Zynga looks to be doing, is anyone's guess.

The publisher of popular video games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft — two games in which players mow

Instead, you need to do as Gary Vaynerchuk prescribes in his Investing in the Long Game vlog and build your fan base one block at a time.

According to a page on the Alien Universe official homepage, the Alexa - based game can be played both as a single - player adventure or with friends in multiplayer mode.

In addition to the release date, we also learned that stars such as Bryce Dallace Howard (from «Jurassic World»), Mackenzie Davis («Halt and Catch Fire»), Jerome Flynn («Game of Thrones»), and Michael Kelly («House of Cards») will be among the third season's cast.

EA's plans to sell in - game upgrades for real money, in randomized packages known in the industry as «loot boxes» or «loot crates,» produced a massive outcry last Fall, severely damaging the game's financial performance.

By merely including those items as rewards in game play, customers walked away saying «I didn't know they also made Sabra» and over 90 % of the people who engaged tweeted photos of themselves playing the game with the brand extension.

Nonetheless, the company will have to step up its game due to the impending introduction of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May — so its attempt to comply with that sweeping reform may end up also being dressed up as its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

But as the world's top athletes converge on this region for the winter games, Gangwon's Governor Moon - soon Choi says attitudes toward his region are changing, in part because of its physical transformation.

This game makes full use of everything the PlayStation VR has to offer: You have to duck and weave your head around errand buzzsaws, even as you wield one pistol in each hand to take down monsters.

Bring as many potential investors as possible into the game in order to build a controllable, high - value market.

Of course, beyond the major geographical changes as a result of the meteors, there's a new season of «Fortnite» — the most popular game in the world, by some measures — for millions of players to dig into.

It will continue for as many games as the Warriors have left in the playoffs.

To get ahead in the branding game, here are tips for helping you focus your business's efforts on these young and impressionable adults who are still willing to take accept you as one of their brands.

But according to the Tire's consumer surveys — 6,000 respondents canvassed each and every month — loyal customers want the chain to get in the digital game as soon as possible.

Takeaway: The person who makes the first offer gets to control the psychological range of the haggling, much as the person making the first move in chess gets to set the initial direction of the game.

New games featuring Yoshi and Kirby are in the works for 2018, and a new Pokémon game for the Switch — Nintendo goes so far as to call a «core» Pokémon game — is expected to hit store shelves some time after that.

We realized that the candidates who didn't grow up in the U.S. spent up to 20 minutes just to understand how to play the game, which introduced new challenges as they competed for positions against candidates who grew up playing the game.

As people worry about Dropbox and Box.com's future, companies large and small are getting into the pure storage game; a business backbone in the cloud

The deal — the largest of its kind in NHL history — also includes the NHL Centre Ice and NHL Game Centre Live properties, as well as rights to the All - Star Game and the NHL Draft.

That's why brands post their ads — as well as short teasers, extended versions, and trumped - up «censored» versions — well in advance of game day.

Lawmakers and activists saw an even bigger problem, comparing the purchasable loot boxes, in a game likely to have a large audience of minors, as akin to encouraging children to gamble.

It was a wildly popular sytem in its day, like the NES and SNES, and served as the launching pad for some iconic games, including Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and GoldenEye 007.

You can do that in the minors, but as you «grow up» in sports or in any other line of work, the mental game is every bit as important as the physical skills and talents.

Authorities in Belgium, for instance, have reportedly considered classifying video games with purchasable loot crates as forms of gambling.

Digital avatars have long been featured in video games as a way for users to create digital profiles of themselves.

In his 15th season, at 33 years old, James is still as dominant as ever, averaging 34 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists per game while leading the Cleveland Cavaliers.