Sentences with phrase «as video games in»

While boardgames have seen a 100 % increase in pledges during 2016, collecting six times as much as video games in the same year, video games have struggled to obtain large - scale funding on the platform, as a recent analysis shows (see Kickstarter in 2017 — In depth look at the Games category).

Having said that, as long as we define what we do as video games in this business, then the experience needs to be very unique [to that medium].

Rebooted as a video game in 2013, it was only going to be a matter of time before Hollywood had another crack at turning Tomb Raider into a viable movie franchise.

Though it seems weird for a Mario game to be so meta as to present itself as a video game in its own story, it does seem a bit less inappropriate due to the outright insane idea behind the game itself.

Not exact matches

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

As a teenager, Olajide «KSI» Olatunji played EA Sports» line of FIFA video games for hours on end in his parents» home.

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.

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.

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.

In the future, cognitive video games will be like «Neuro Cross Fit Training» as Gazzaley calls it.

The awards are meant to honour the best in video game design, as done by Canadians.

This latest trailer comes just a couple weeks after the 10th anniversary of GTA: III, thought by many to be a watershed moment where video games began to be seen as a serious form of adult entertainment that could also rake in millions of dollars.

Cloud gaming: Services such as Onlive, which stream video games over an Internet connection in much the same way that Netflix does with movies, are already here, but they probably won't be fully viable until the majority of homes have ultra-fast connections.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Amazon is buying video game streaming platform Twitch Interactive for $ 970 million in cash as it seeks to expand its presence in gaming.

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.

Paying homage to the comics Other than cashing in on video games — the LEGO Batman games are leading Activision Blizzard's (Nasdaq: ATVI) The Amazing Spider - Man on the charts as of this writing — it isn't yet clear how Warner will make good on this freedom.

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 most of the traditional media stocks were absolutely obliterated in the market recently, Jim Cramer remains a fan of the nontraditional media plays, such as video gameAs most of the traditional media stocks were absolutely obliterated in the market recently, Jim Cramer remains a fan of the nontraditional media plays, such as video gameas video games.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Boutique fitness studios are growing fast, popping up in cities around the country, taking over small spaces that once housed businesses such as beauty salons or video game shops.

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 firsIn 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 firsin 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.

As was obvious in my Gears of War post last week, I've been doing a lot of soul searching about video games lately.

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.

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.

John Roa recalls the lessons he learned as founder of a video game company back in 2002.

In 1981, after five years as a Wendy's manager, Tom Pogemiller opened the first of his four Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre restaurants, a franchise operation founded in 1978 by video - game wizard Nolan BushnelIn 1981, after five years as a Wendy's manager, Tom Pogemiller opened the first of his four Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre restaurants, a franchise operation founded in 1978 by video - game wizard Nolan Bushnelin 1978 by video - game wizard Nolan Bushnell.

Video games ironically emerged in the 1960s as a consumer - friendly demonstration of what computers could do, with consoles in the 1970s finally packing processing power into a couldn't - be-simpler device.

In fact, bad actors like rules; as in a video game: the more clearly they're delineated, the easier they are to beaIn fact, bad actors like rules; as in a video game: the more clearly they're delineated, the easier they are to beain a video game: the more clearly they're delineated, the easier they are to beat.

The group that oversees video - game ratings in North America just announced a huge change that impacts all games, and the future of the industry as a whole.