Sentences with phrase «as a launch game»

Fans have been patiently waiting for Rayman Legends for the Wii U since it was announced as a launch game since June of 2012, and for many it was going to be one of the highlights of the Wii U's launch due to the critical success of Rayman Origins.

Take a dungeon explorer franchise with an incredibly generic title and bring it to a new handheld console as a launch game.

Starting with «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» as a launch game, moving to «Mario Kart 8 Deluxe» and «Splatoon 2,» then finishing up 2017 with «Super Mario Odyssey,» it's easy to see why Nintendo's Switch sold so well: Some of this year's best games were exclusive to the Switch.

Hell even Forza5 as a launch game is impressive.

Also, it mentions that Europe will be seeing it in Q1 next year with Mario Kart, Zelda OoT, and Professor Layton as launch games.

If you didn't know Bruce Lee would be playable in EA Sports UFC, you'll know as soon as you launch the game because the publisher really wants you to invest in even more fighters.

Where the 3DS succeeds, however, is on the handheld Virtual Console you are given the option to play the game at its original, crisp resolution if you hold the Start button as you launch the game.

After the break, we dig into the rumor that Super Smash Bros. is coming to the NX as a launch game, discussing new content, modes, and more that could come to the title.

The game will be released in Japan on March 3, 2017 as a launch game for the Nintendo Switch.

Had the Playstation 3 version of Lost Planet been released as a launch game of the console, it would probably have gotten less critisism.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, and assuming they're destined for critical acclaim, having completely new and exclusive games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Snipperclips, Arms and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 available as part of your launch year holiday lineup could prove a much bigger deal than anyone's yet realized.

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.

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.

The app, which launched in October, offers videos from Comedy Central and Vice, among others, as well as basketball and football games.

The third quarter included the impact of FarmVille: Tropics Escape, as well as the long - delayed mobile racing game CSR 2, which launched at the end of the second quarter.

Buyers favour physical shops for red - hot items such as video games; those asking for the newly launched Assassin's Creed III at the Futureshop.ca store wanted to take it home right there, says spokesman Elliott Chun.

The phenomenal numbers put Super Mario Odyssey on the path to becoming the best selling game for the Switch, Nintendo's latest gaming console; fans are buying it even faster than they bought The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a launch title that was heralded as one of the best games in the Zelda franchise's history.

Sony announced the launch date during the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, where it showcased a slew of new VR video games, including ones for the Star Wars and Batman franchises.

Eager Japanese rushed to their phones on Friday to start hunting as Pokemon GO, the hit Nintendo - backed smartphone game, finally launched in Japan, home of the colorful cartoon characters.

Nintendo's new console may be fast, and it may be decently priced at just $ 300, and it may have a new, massive, excellent Zelda game as a launch title, but it has some tremendous limitations.

Legendary among gamers for its high - performance hardware, such as laptops, headphones, consoles, and other connected devices, San Francisco's Razer launched a $ 30 million fund, in 2016, to invest in the IoT.

That said, Nintendo's outright stating what we'll learn at the event: «The presentation will include the launch date and pricing for Nintendo Switch, as well as a look at the lineup of games currently in development,» a Nintendo press release about the event states.

Microsoft's recently launched Kinect motion video - game system, for example, can also be used to conduct video chats, and it follows users as they move around a room.

«We are sincerely grateful that gamers across the globe have continued to choose PS4 as the best place to play since launch two years ago,» said Andrew House, president and global CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. «Thanks to the support of our partners, PS4 continues to be the premier platform for game and interactive entertainment innovation.»

The Rochester, N.Y. company, best known for its line of head - mounted video eyewear favored by soldiers and gamers (as well as a 2009 cameo on The Oprah Winfrey Show), launched its own smart glasses at the end of 2013.

Since launching in March 2017, the Nintendo Switch has taken the mantle as the must - have console for playing the best games.

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

Wolfenstein — often credited as the game that launched the genre — looks positively rudimentary now, since it limited players to grid - like levels that had only one plane of action.

While it's currently not known when a Super Mario mobile game will launch, mobile is largely viewed as the next frontier for the company.

In the mobile gaming space, which the Japanese company entered as late as 2015 with a partnership with DeNA, Nintendo found success in 2016, first with the successful launch of the Niantic - developed Pokemon Go mobile game.

It will certainly give the company's console a lift, but as the initial launch showed, a great game isn't enough to get gamers to forgive the price premium.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line has launched a cruise line that features Voom satellite Internet service — it is billed as being so fast that passengers can play online games while at sea in a dedicated Xbox video game lounge.

But Nintendo thought differently and in 1983 launched the Famicom, or Family Computer, as a home game console in Japan.

DeNA and Nintendo will also create a membership service to access the new games that could launch as soon as this fall.

Aside from some of the usual sorts of issues we see with any online game at launch, would you say things are playing out more or less as expected?

The first three games that will arrive on Game Pass at the same time as their global launch dates are «Sea of Thieves,» «Crackdown 3,» and «State of Decay 2» — all Xbox One exclusive games, published by Microsoft.

The book that arguably helped launched the open - book management movement, The Great Game teaches owners and employees alike to think of the numbers behind their business as a gGame teaches owners and employees alike to think of the numbers behind their business as a gamegame.

Rumors pointed to it as a potential launch game for Nintendo's new game console, the Switch, which arrives on March 3.

Things got to an iffy start right from the get - go, given the lack of clarity from developer Niantic as to when the game would actually launch across various regions.

Hoosier Lottery officials hope that Monopoly Millionaires» Club will catch up as more prizes are awarded, raising awareness of the game, and once a television show featuring the Friday night drawings launches in February, Arango said.

In fact, gamers have already seen it: Nintendo has been adding new items and mechanics — such as checkpoints — ever since the game first launched.

PwC has launched an internal social network to interact with travelers, which has been a game changer in answering questions as issues occur and getting candid feedback about the travel program.

In 1999, the NHLPA launched the Goals & Dreams fund as a way for the players to give something back to the game they love.

One title, upcoming VR puzzle game SuperHyperCube will no longer launch on the Rift this fall as a result of the Daily Beast's report, developer Kokoromi said this afternoon.

Startup Incubation (also known as Startup accelerators) hold significant importance in a country like India where entrepreneurs by the score are launching new setups and changing the game of business by minutes.

But now, as a result of an exclusive partnership between Alibaba and the game's developer, Hit - Point, a Chinese - language and localized version of Travel Frog will launch in China.

Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR)(OTC: NTDOY) may have hit the jackpot with its» Super Mario Run,» as it launched its first full - blown mobile game Thursday.

Two market moving initiatives were announced this week, one potential game of the year has been released with another on the way Friday and, lest we forget, the Nintendo Switch just happens to be launching as well.

To showcase once again how Heineken ® is pairing their decades of passion for soccer with the momentum the beautiful game has seen in the U.S., Heineken ® has launched the «Soccer is Here» campaign, which debuts a hat trick of renowned players as spokespeople, including International Spanish star and New York City Football Club (NYCFC) captain, David Villa, U.S. Women's National team captain and summer games hero, Carli Lloyd and American soccer legend Landon Donovan.

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