Sentences with phrase «as video and games»

In this activity students make decisions about how and where to access mobile entertainment such as video and games.

It's a great canvas for the eye candy - filled interface as well as videos and games.

Not exact matches

The tiny earpiece at the top of the phone that you use to listen to phone conversations on now doubles as a speaker when you play videos and games on your iPhone 7.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 JuAnd 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 Juand Vancouver native Don Mattrick — the most powerful man in video games — to take over as chief executive in July.

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

Neighbors described Tamerlan as friendly and outgoing and said he, too, often played video games.

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

Long seen as one of the last frontiers of consumer cloud services, companies have been attempting to go the way of Netflix and Spotify by bringing video games to the cloud.

Brllnt's video games and status as WeWork's go - to office resulted in a steady stream of visitors, and proved to be a very effective form of lead generation.

Politicians in various provinces, as well as the United Kingdom and several U.S. states, have questioned the wisdom of granting tax rebates to video game makers.

Because as marketing strategist and writer Barry Feldman says, «If you're not experimenting with video, you're simply sitting on the sidelines watching the big game unfold.»

Turtle Beach Corporation, the market leader in console video game headsets, has over the years developed audio technology that enables gamers to hear soft video game sounds such as footsteps around the corner and gun reloads off in the distance.

Through a series of YouTube videos, viewers will see players like Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter and Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Nugent - Hopkins use the credit card company's payment system as they go through a skills competition, which is a fun variation to the NHL All - Star Game's annual skills competition.

Kitchener, Ontario - based Vidyard gets points for making a video that carries off a hat trick: It's funny; it's creative, marrying old - school»80s workout gear with Rocky - style training; and — most important — it's useful as a tool for those looking to up their video marketing game.

As Nintendo is primarily known for its landmark video game franchises like Super Mario Bros., Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda, Iwata noted that the QOL products would boast a gamification aspect.

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

As the Boston Globe reports, the company Quick Hit is hoping its no - frills football video game can compete with the dazzling graphics and All - Star names featured in Electronic Arts's wildly successful Madden NFL video games.

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.»

But people in and around the video game industry tend to raise issues of economic scale as a deterrent to entry.

For the San Francisco company, these games are part of a major initiative to use the video streaming of live events, particularly sports, as a way to drive user growth and engagement, and, in this way, ad sales.

Funny videos and interactive games may be great marketing tools for Fortune 1000 companies with seven - figure advertising budgets, but how can SMB owners create the same kind of impact as Nike and Burger King?

More importantly, video games are the crux of the future economy, lying at the intersection of culture and technology as they do.

The question now is whether the largest video - game developers in Canada, such as Ubisoft, EA and Activision, are reacting quickly enough to this sea change in the industry.

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

• Intelligence operatives with NSA and GCHQ infiltrate online video games such as «World of Warcraft» in an effort to catch and stop terrorist plots.

With almost no money, Musk worked a bevy of jobs — as an intern in Microsoft's Canadian marketing department, an intern for the Bank of Nova Scotia, and as a programmer for a video - game developer called, presciently, Rocket Science.

As a 12 - year - old growing up in the South African city of Pretoria with divorced parents, Musk created a video game, Blaster, and sold it to a computer magazine for the ungodly sum of $ 500.

Certain subreddits began to adopt lighter, more modern, and mostly customizable designs — such as r / Overwatch, the video game subreddit with more than 1 million subscribers.

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

uSell, an online marketplace for used electronics, wanted to see whether it should expand into items such as used textbooks, clothing, and video games.

The 15 - inch machines will also suit video editors and Mac gamers, as they come with dedicated graphics cards.

The ban also means that, for the foreseeable future, travelers booked on more than 125 affected flights a day to the U.S. and U.K. will have to put devices such as tablets, e-readers, cameras, laptops, portable DVD players, and video games in checked baggage.

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.

The partnership includes developing a Lego video zone for children on the Tencent video platform, as well as developing and operating Lego branded licensed games, the toymaker said.

On Nov. 15 — the release date of its latest hit — Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot spoke to Canadian Business staff writer Jeff Beer about how the industry has changed in the past 25 years, where games and movies will meet and Canada's potential as a video - game powerhouse.

Video game maker Activision Blizzard announced on Monday plans buy «Candy Crush Saga» creator King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion, Reuters reported, as the heavyweight of console and PC gaming makes a major push into the faster - growing mobile market.

In the mid 1980s, as seemingly every kid in the West was mashing buttons on video - game classics like Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and Duck Hunt, the citizens of the Soviet Union were wondering which pair of shoes they might have to boil for their nutrients first.

When it's not being used for meetings, the room serves as a space for employees to screen movies, play video games, and snack from a popcorn machine.

Maybe some freelancers will get tossed a couple bucks for a story or two, but E3 and video games in general are a far cry from being taken as seriously as other areas of technology and entertainment.

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.

Her research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, video games, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies.

It's also been crowned as the most popular mobile video game in history by survey company SurveyMonkey and is estimated to have had 21 million daily active users at its peak in the United States.

Video games have come under close scrutiny in the last few years as critics have pushed back at the overwhelming skew towards young white men in game characters, themes, and ideals.

I was homeschooled, I went to college when I was 16, as a woman I'm really interested in the subjects I talk about, which are video games and things that aren't «traditionally» female.

Though the attackers framed their actions as a defense of journalistic objectivity, most observers found the real motive to be a backlash against cultural diversification and gender sensitivity in video games.