Sentences with phrase «from big franchises»

But what we have started to see more is big titles from big franchises having irrecovable issues during development and unflinchingly sticking to a release date depsite the product not being ready.

Microsoft took the stage at this year's E3 with a handful of new titles from their big franchises, a bunch of indie console - exclusives, a demonstration of their new Hololens technology and a few exciting surprises.

We moved away from the big franchises because we wanted to provide you with a friendlier car buying experience.

If you ever wanted to have the coolest music from the biggest franchises in the history of video games then you'll soon have that chance — EMI Classics, Video Games Live and IMG Artists will release an album celebrating some of the best known, most popular video game music of all time.

Expect a couple of smaller announcements for the console however, such as ports from biggest franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed.

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Nintendo corrected that with the Switch, giving gamers the one - two punch of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, entries from its two biggest franchises.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

The life - long leadership lessons Alfano learned at Starbucks are playing a big role in his goal to grow The Learning Experience's franchise footprint from 300 to 500 locations by 2020.

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

And when companies from retail giants to professional sports franchises talk about implementing big data solutions, the conversation often involves analyzing tweets and posts rather than true cutting - edge meta data analytics.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

So, if you've ever been curious about what it'd be like to run your own hotel or motel, check out the slideshow to see five big - name franchises from our Franchise 500 list, ranked from least expensive to most expensive.

J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.

But that won't happen, because Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Franchise have enough political clout to stop the loophole from being closed and stop the IRS from going after them.

Clothes Mentor was recently featured in an article from The News & Observer about lesser - known franchises that offer big opportunities...

The big concern is that Gilead's ailing hepatitis C franchise has yet to stabilize in the wake of newfound competition from AbbVie's (NYSE: ABBV) Mavyret.

As a franchise owner, you'll play host to celebrations big and small, from romantic anniversaries and joyful promotions to ordinary nights out that become extraordinary.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

MLB — Last night saw a big comeback from the Blue Jays in the longest game in their franchise history:

On the offensive side of the football, the biggest surprise came from the Houston Texans who managed to snag a potential franchise quarterback (Brock Osweiler) and running back (Lamar Miller).

Wayne Ellington had 20 points and Tristan Thompson 18 for Cleveland, which went from a stunning upset to blowing the biggest lead in a loss in franchise history.

Using David Beckham - who spent five years with LA Galaxy and with whom Leiweke has previously worked - as a benchmark, Leiweke declared that perhaps the TFC franchise had been expecting more from their big - money addition.

There is no doubt from our discussions that a New York City metro area casino and mega convention center franchise is a most desirable and attractive opportunity for the biggest developers in the world and the state would have an abundance of exciting options.

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In a pathetic, won't - you - please - like - me kinda way, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Franchise has transmogrified from the actively sucky, loud, overblown, bombastic original into perhaps the most perfunctory big - budgeted action flick ever.

In a wonderful cartoon world populated by Mii characters, the players are able to play twelve different games, inspired by Nintendo biggest franchise, from Super Mario to Zelda.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

Umbrella Corps is a big game from a major publisher in a popular franchise in that franchise's anniversary year, and it's both awful and dead on arrival.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

While some elements, like the story and the boss fights, will definitely appeal to fans of the franchise, major step backs, like the low difficulty, the poor pacing due to the overload of cut - scenes and the uninteresting side quests keep Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 from being the next big hit by CyberConnect2.

Dreamworks» biggest animated franchise, Shrek, suffered mightily from this problem.

I like how they have engineered the plot from part three and the franchise as a whole into a bigger picture, all these films are prequels and the finale here does tie that up nicely.

Is it that Disney has a full slate of adaptations of its own animated fare, and big support from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises?

This is actually one of the best looking games in this franchise to date and it seems pretty obvious that the whole thing is going to get bigger from here.

This Halloween, the seasonal offerings include some big - ticket gift sets, like «Chucky: The Complete Collection,» an anthology of all six films in the «Child's Play» series (Universal; Blu - ray, $ 84.98; DVD, $ 59.88; not rated), and «Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection,» which offers Blu - ray editions of 12 films in that slasher franchise, from the original 1980 «Friday the 13th» directed by Sean S. Cunningham to its 2009 remake - reboot directed by Marcus Nispel — in effect, closing the circle (Warner Home Video; $ 129.95; R).

Before Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hits the big screen this summer, fans of the franchise will have the opportunity to build their very own dinosaur theme park with the upcoming video game Jurassic World Evolution, complete with appearances from Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm, Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire Dearing and B.D. Wong's Dr. Henry Wu.

«We plan to deliver some of our biggest and best PC franchises on Games for Windows Marketplace from day one,»

But the summer of 2003 saw «Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl» become a monster hit, launching one of the biggest modern - day franchises, stretching to four movies to date, and turning Depp from beloved oddball to global megastar.

From «Hunger Games» to «Mortal Instruments,» TheWrap's DealCentral columnist looks at the next big youth - targeted franchises

Directed by Academy Award ® nominee Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena), this emotional film features stunning and witty performances from Academy Award ® winner Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love, Philomena), Ali Fazal (Furious 7), Eddie Izzard (Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen), Addel Akhtar (The Dictator, The Big Sick) and Michael Gambon (Harry Potter franchise).

Otherwise, there's little to distinguish this outing from the franchise's previous six, except that the budgets are bigger, the locations are more varied, and the stunts are stunt - ier, replete with Diesel driving a car out of one high - rise's window and into another.

It's also, now, the stylistic middle child of a franchise that converted Universal's famous monster from a creepy spine - tingler into a big money blockbuster with infant CGI.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

The Farming Simulator franchise has entranced millions of players over the years, thanks to its unique blend of progressive gameplay and rewarding management within the universal theme of farming and agriculture, featuring hundreds of vehicles from the world's biggest agricultural brands.

There were also clips from Judd Apatow's sequel to Knocked Up called This Is 40 (Christmas of 2012), 47 Ronin in 3D (February 2013), Oblivion starring Tom Crusie and Morgan Freeman which opens April 2013 and R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department) starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, plus the next installments of two big franchises, Fast and The Furious 6 and Despicable Me 2, in the Summer of 2013.

The Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious franchises all derived from its halls, as did last year's one - two punch of Split and Get Out (the company's two biggest hits to date).

What we are excited about: Similar to this week's other big release, Bridget Jones's Baby is a sequel to a beloved a franchise that has been away from cineplexes for a while.

Marvel's 10 - year plan reaches a penultimate crescendo with its biggest crossover event yet, as just about every major character from every solo franchise in the company's shared universe drops in to take on scavenger - hunting intergalactic heavy Thanos (an unrecognizable Josh Brolin).

Reviving the magical universe from the second biggest franchise of all time is a pretty risky move, but Fantastic Beasts does a good job of blending the familiar with the new.