Sentences with phrase «from franchises like»

Both programs have given away everything from new indie games to older blockbusters from franchises like Assassin's Creed and Metal Gear Solid.

AR stickers will feature characters from franchises like Stranger Things, the NBA and more.

In February, the box is based on the theme «Build» and will contain items from franchises like Batman, Power Rangers, Tetris and LEGO Dimensions.

Over the years, we've used our E3 briefing to announce blockbuster games from franchises like Halo and Gears of War, Xbox Live platform features, including Xbox One Backward Compatibility and the New Xbox One Experience, and much more.

If you never heard of the game, its a 2D anime based fighting game that happens to feature some SEGA characters (from franchises like Virtua Fighter and Valkyria Chronicles).

Classic skins from franchises like Gears of War, Halo, and Banjo - Kazooie will also be available today for Minecraft on #NintendoSwitch in the Minecraft Skin Pack 1!

The 20 novels range in content and style, from franchises like Star Trek, Doctor Who, True Blood, and adaptations of video games like EA's Dragon Age and Dead Space, to recognizable comic collections like Joe Hill's Locke & Key, The Rocketeer, and Bloom County.

Previous generations maintained popularity with the help of a great selection of exclusive games, particularly benefiting from franchises like Halo and Gears of War, but also seeing a boost from Crackdown, Fable II, Forza, and others.

You can get PopSockets in a bunch of fun designs, including everything from animals and fun prints to solid colors and branded designs from franchises like sports teams and fandoms.

Not exact matches

If you're like me and grew up playing Nintendo game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube, you likely have fond memories of characters like Chun - Li and Ken from the «Street Fighter» franchise.

The total cost of investment can vary widely based on your current real estate, the type of Anytime Fitness franchise — Anytime Fitness Express can run you anywhere from $ 89,350 to $ 449,800 and an Anytime Fitness Standard will cost you $ 114,950 to $ 677,800 — and where you'd like to build.

Find opportunities on a range of small business ideas from children's education franchises like Kumon, Huntington Learning Center, and i9 Sports.

When 13 - year - old Liberty Tax Service first launched, its franchises needed to draw attention away from established behemoths like H&R Block — and it only had a January - to - April 15 window to do it.

I liked the idea of franchising because it provides proven processes, relationships with vendors and an existing business model in place that works — instead of having to start a business from scratch.

Many businesses shy away from moving into inner - city areas like South Central Los Angeles due to concerns about market viability, vandalism and gangs, but when we were looking for a location for our Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar franchise, my partner, Karim Webb, and I realized it didn't make sense to look anywhere else.

It's Microsoft's most important franchise for the Xbox, and even though it's changed hands from Bungie to Microsoft - owned 343 Industries, the development team has twice shown us it's capable of Master Chief's mantle: first in 2012 with «Halo 4,» and this year with «The Master Chief Collection,» which remastered and remixed the first four major titles with new graphics and interesting gameplay additions like playlists.

The brief teaser shown on Thursday night indicates the fighting - game series will include favorites like Mario and Link, from the «Super Mario» and the «Legend of Zelda» franchises.

Papa John's early history reads like many pizza franchises: A young John Schnatter figures he can make a better pizza and begins delivering pies from a glorified broom closet in his father's Jeffersonville, Ind., bar.

Explains Abby Huizing, founder of Franchisology, a Calgary consulting firm: «When a company like Chicken on the Way has garnered a cult - like following and decides to franchise, one of the most important things aside from location is choosing the right franchisees.»

Franchising offers individuals like me an opportunity to break free and own their own business whilst at the same time minimizing the risk that is inherent in opening an entirely new business from scratch.

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.

Although there were a range of hit properties, including the movie Frozen, much of the earnings increase came from assets related to Marvel, whether it was movies like Guardians of The Galaxy or merchandise sales involving characters from the Avengers» franchise.

Calling Project Pie the «anti-chain chain,» Markham lets franchisees choose from several décor packages that look more like hip indie restaurants than franchise units.

Then, those two were joined by LEGO Dimensions from Warner Bros., which leveraged mega franchises like Ghostbusters and Doctor Who.

From the executives and staff to store owners and their employees to communities and customers, NTY Franchise Company operates like a family.

Since 2015, Famous Dave's decreased its company - owned stores from 50 to 16 as it sheds net debt, and diverts resources to franchise operations, like training and marketing efforts.

If you'd like a safer bet than starting your own restaurant from scratch, consider opening a franchise of an established restaurant chain, and reap the benefits of an already - popular brand.

However, work from home franchise opportunities like Credit Nerds provide franchisees the opportunity to take business from all around the country, thereby increasing the potential for revenue.

And much like Adobe and Microsoft (MSFT), Autodesk is finding that transitioning users of its core franchises from licenses to subscriptions is both making its business more predictable and increasing its long - term revenue opportunity with major clients.

I like supporting local businesses, but sometimes you just want pizza from a well - run franchised operation.

«The unrelenting and escalating cost pressures from shopping centres on their retail tenants, supermarkets creating franchise - like «stores in stores», successful brands being copied and co-located in food malls with no regard for the original tenant's interests, are just some of the challenges facing franchisees who are looking to run profitable businesses,» Mr Bilson told The Australian Financial Review.

I like JVG... but I'd try to pull someone away from the Spurs because they have been the model franchise in this league for 15 years and that insight could be invaluable.

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

Of all the teams in franchise history, from Duke Snider and Sandy Koufax to Steve Garvey and Fernando Valenzuela, no Dodgers team has had success like this.

Welker would like about as much guaranteed money as he would get from having the franchise tag used on him this year and next, so backing out of a deal now and tagging him again next year would be counter-productive for the Patriots.

where you would have teams scrambling for this year's Matt Duffy or taking a chance on a fast riser like A.J. Pollock to be their franchise player on a contract he's currently a few years away from.

They're one Patriots gift away from looking like a rutterless franchise.

But so long as that is a real possibility, moving on from Gasol is too rash for a franchise like Memphis.

RENE RUSSO Starred in hits like Tin Cup and the Lethal Weapon franchise before a six - year break from acting.

It's a bit of an unusual move from a sports franchise to give fans a heads up about upcoming roster decisions, but it seems like the team is hoping to soften the blow from what could be a major fire sale.

As a blogger, most of the time I work from home, but there are opportunities for me to attend media events and work with the community, much like owning your own franchise with Just Between Friends Franchise -LCB- JBF -RCB-, North America's leading children's and maternity consignmefranchise with Just Between Friends Franchise -LCB- JBF -RCB-, North America's leading children's and maternity consignmeFranchise -LCB- JBF -RCB-, North America's leading children's and maternity consignment event.

Use this bodyweight routine to look like Chris Hemsworth from the hit movie franchise.

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.

If you have played Battlefield from the outset 1942, BF2 for example you would of seen the franchise going downhill and trying to compare with the likes of COD when in fact they should of been concentrating on making it unique.

From what I'm reading in most reviews, I think that they need to really renew the franchise for WRC3 like Dirt was.

Third, the field has to be winnowed from the very start, and it's tough to see certain much - liked characters killed off, some forever and others for whatever passes for «forever» in a corporate comic book franchise.

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.

A slick movie like this one coming from Disney has «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchising written all over it, and it probably will.

Indeed, the non-Marvel films in these franchises that have done best more recently are the ones that stood out from the crowd, like Wonder Woman (which rejected the dark tone of other DC movies), Logan (which felt like a grown - up standalone film), and Deadpool (which loudly razzed the idea of being linked to X-Men movies).