Sentences with phrase «for smaller game companies»

For years, consoles had been «high walled gardens» for small games companies, with only a handful of lucky studios finding their way onto the green distribution pastures like Microsoft's XBLA, Nintendo's WiiWare and Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN).

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Icide's is one of several small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in the game, in which Twitter users are asked trivia questions about local companies for the chance to win prizes.

Gaia Essentials, her small boutique in Moss Beach, California, is one of several small businesses in the Bay Area that participated in a game in which Twitter users are asked trivia questions about local companies for the chance to win prizes.

Pokémon Go, a mobile game that has rocketed to the top of Apple (aapl) and Android app stores in record time, looks set to challenge young Internet companies that specialize in increasing foot traffic for small businesses and may end up playing a role in major brands» marketing, according to industry experts.

Microsoft, for one, opened a new studio last year that is devoted to creating Kinect games, while other, smaller game companies quickly moved to try and snap up employees laid off by Radical.

Microsoft's «10 Tips for Dealing With Game Cyberbullies and Griefers» states: «Although they are only a small percentage of the video - gaming community, griefers have some gaming companies concerned about losing subscribers.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

«This is a game changer because it levels the playing field for small companies by transforming a previously uninsurable threat into a manageable business risk,» John Amster, chief executive and co-founder of RPX, said in a press release.

We believe space and culture are game - changing ingredients for companies young and old, large and small.

For consumers, higher prices are fair game but smaller portions are not, says one food marketing researcher who is urging manufacturers to downsize smartly: «Some food companies act as if they are in the energy business, selling always larger volume...

Now for the really fun part, pick out a festive Halloween bucket or bowl to fill with nonfood treats like small toys, games, and novelties like the ones we got from Oriental Trading Company.

Now I'm working for a record label, a small arm of casual games in a media company along with Gaming Nexus, and anywhere else that sees fit to employ me.

Day or night, you can read, you barely have to charge it, it's small, current, and produced by a company who's been in the e-Reader game for years.

(Small role - playing game companies are often looking for cool licensing opportunities.)

For six years, small company stocks have dominated the performance game; that is, larger companies have been struggling throughout the 21st century to claim a place atop the leader board.

If you're a small company you can develop in Unreal or Unity, there are so many ways for people who want to start in the video game industry and it's so much easier than before.

These tokens are small, and look like the circuit chips used for pickups, except on each side is the logo of one of the companies that made the game.

I can't remember if it was Suda51 or Kamiya (might be both in actuality) but I looked into one in how much they actually contributed to their companies games and it was a lot smaller than what people give them credit for... And I bet Miyamoto is a similar case.

This is a small Autumn sale that the company is holding, with each game going on sale for 88 % off their regular pricing.

For your first job, I recommend starting at a small game company so you can wear a variety of hats and determine which area of the industry you are most interested in and best suited fFor your first job, I recommend starting at a small game company so you can wear a variety of hats and determine which area of the industry you are most interested in and best suited forfor.

Game design is a rough feat to pull off, especially for small company — I'll try and pull back on my effusive praise since they are now part of the SEGA family, but I will say they are wonderful people (and they have an absolutely killer office here in San Francisco, designed after the Nautilus and featuring a (full operational?)

So you translate «this started off as a small mobile game» into «Do your homework and you'll see this company has been making games exclusively for smartphones up until this point?»

Joining Valve is a big step for the small indie company, seeing as they have developed and published only one game, albeit with success.

The game is being produced by Alten8, a small, private British game company that is licensed to develop games for Nintendo U.K..

This doesn't mean that smaller games might not be able to implement this feature soon since it would result in good press for both companies as well as an incentive to purchase those titles.

NIS is quite a small company doing mediocre and niche games, do nt have money for such dialog to be dubbed and NEVER have a problem with japanese VA..

However, if Smart proves correct and this proves to result in an FTC case like The Doom that Came To Atlantic City, it could be a staggering cautionary tale — one that effectively cripples Kickstarter as an effective way for smaller companies to get their games off the ground.

Dark Day Interactive - is a small indie Development company, based in Australia and the United Kingdom, with past experience in the video game market, with the current release of Once Bitten, Twice Dead on PC, and iOS hits like Sky Island, the team has taken there past skills and knowledge from other projects and combined them into one tight company, answering to no major publishers, only making games they love, for the community and helped shape by the community.

So, if you want to be a working game composer, here are tips to increase your employability for these smaller, yet still very serious and well paying, game companies by getting started in sound design.

The company exited the traditional kids» licensed games business, and streamlined its product line, organization, and cost structure to support a smaller company positioned for sustained profitability.

In the studio's Q3 2015 report, Funcom said that it would be announcing the creation of three new titles — one «large» and two small — next year: «In line with the company's strategy, prototyping and concept development for new titles is underway, with the first new game to be announced during early 2016 and two additional games throughout later that year.»

The explosion of indie gaming in the past decade has not only allowed for smaller companies to enter the gaming market, it has allowed for people from various background and unique games to have a place.

Most game studios in Denmark are about our size or smaller, and if you work for a company like that, you better be able to do some actual work on the game — if you can code, model, animate, or at the very least draw, you're in a pretty good position.

But a bigger, more beautiful game with 3D graphics means a bigger budget, and for a small up - and - coming company this can be quite an obstacle.

Kotaku reported that Next Floor and Netmarble were ordered to pay small fines, but Nexon a much bigger one, amounting to $ 875,000, due to the company's handling of loot boxes in a special event for the game Sudden Attack.

Meanwhile, a quick tour of the E3 floor shows that all of the «real» companies are fighting for ever smaller slices of the space marine market, the racing game market, and the world war II shooter market.

Able to digitally distribute games to consumers before those same channels opened up through app stores and desktop computers, console platforms held the high ground for years, the huge corporations behind them setting the terms for smaller companies who wanted in.

For a small company like FWG, that meant that more money could be devoted to game development rather than rent, which is one of the strengths of this style of development.

These small games have become big business for Sony and Microsoft, with the latter company trying to catch up by announcing its Xbox One support of indie games at Gamescom.

Despite the large numbers of otome game releases every year, they sell relatively small numbers to a very specific audience, with drama CDs, anime adaptations, and merchandise making up a significant revenue source for their respective companies.

Those big budget games may be the bread and butter for these companies, handed to the lucky few who line up in groups large enough to get their share, but the smaller titles are without a doubt the paper plates handed out to everyone who shows up to the party.

When Nintendo decided to re-release the primary Super Mario back catalog for the Game Boy Advance, the company decided to include small amounts of new content.

Insomniac Games, named one of the top ten Best Small Companies to work for, three years in a row, with their massage therapy, lunchtime basketball games, weekly softball games, fully stocked kitchen and best of all, curvy walls.

Our previous game, Wizorb was a success for a new independent game company like us, but it was a relatively small production and even though the revenues earned from it are good enough to allow us to fund another small production, they would not suffice to fund a more ambitious project.

There will probably also be room for smaller retail publishers who bring independent games to different parts of the world (companies like GMX, Black Bean, Lighthouse, Meridian4, Deep Silver, et.c.).

I think it is difficult to be active in the consumer market for indie game makers, such as our small company.

The fact that it was developed by a small studio without a long history, published by a company not a lot of people know, and put it on a console that doesn't get much attention, you find a recipe for a game that is bound to go unnoticed.

The company has managed to build up a small library of great games for the Wii U, but needs to show that it can court third - party developers as well.

Starwhal is a game recently released for the Xbox One (already available for Steam, Wii U, and PlayStation 4) made by the company Breakfall who is responsible for a small handful of other indie titles you've most likely never heard of.

What do you think is the best option (s) for a small (currently one man) private inde game company