Sentences with phrase «game conventions of»

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The company treated this election's party conventions as practice for the NFL games, running live streams of each as a way to experiment with the format.

At this year's E3 gaming convention, no video game dominated the conversation than the PlayStation 4 game «No Man's Sky,» a completely unheard - of title from a group of unknown UK developers.

And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.

In narrowing down the taste field at the gamer conventions, Mullin also began to sponsor individual gamers, gamer teams and gamer leagues, «kind of like NASCAR,» he says, and became the official snack supplier of the Cyber Games to boot.

The outages are particularly enraging because the convention coincides with the rollout of a series of special in - game events and prizes.

Just a few years ago, eSports was a community for video gamers who gathered together at conventions to play CounterStrike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.

Game company Looney Labs is winning customers against giants like Hasbro Games with the help of the Mad Lab Rabbits -500-plus fans who volunteer to work their tails off at trade shows, conventions and local appearances.

However, during a presentation at the GameStop Expo in Las Vegas to promote the upcoming Xbox One console last week, a no - frills, old - school approach is exactly what Microsoft employed when confronted with a convention room full of passionate gamers.

While the likes of Sony and Nintendo typically get most of the attention at the annual E3 video - game convention in Los Angeles, this year the industry was firmly focused on an outsider: Netflix.

She got lit up in a couple preseason, PRESEASON, games more than a pack of Marlboro's at a smoker's convention.

The AEG owned and operated arena continues to distinguish itself as the host of major, high - profile events of national and international distinction including the 2004 & 2011 NBA All - Star Games, 2002 NHL All - Star Game, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY Awards shows.

The same way, in the last minute of a tie game when the other team had the ball, he flouted convention and ordered his players to foul and risk handing the opponents the game - winning free throw — Vee wanted the rock at the end, Vee wanted the last shot.

A turbocharged, forward - hurtling vision of the game was onstage in the vendors» hall at US Lacrosse's national convention in Philadelphia in January.

The ultimate pop - culture convention for fans of sci - fi, fantasy, comic books, and video games.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

Saying he believes the gubernatorial game is «over,» state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long has pulled a power play on his Republican counterpart, Ed Cox, by calling his convention four days ahead of the GOP get - together in the exact same location.

In Vermont, for example, the delegates to such a convention would be elected at - large instead of from districts that could be gamed.

It appears she has calculated that was an impossibility, although it's also unclear whether she would have managed to get onto the ballot here at the convention this late in the game — even with state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs» change of heart about the ballot.

The New York Times reports that Paul's campaign is focusing on the caucus states, where the rules of the game means that even modest support can be translated into a significant number of delegates for the convention is a campaign plays its cards right.)

Casinos are designed to deprive you of your sense of time, so when the Connecticut Republicans started — for the first time since the 1960s, we were told — descending into multiple ballots for their gubernatorial nominee, with long, tedious roll calls followed by long, tedious, game - theory - driven vote switches, it seemed like their convention had dragged on late into the night.

«Put it like this: All we want to get is 50 - plus - one and then everything else will take care of itself,» Levy said when asked to game out his chances here at the GOP convention.

Ross reports the spokesman, Austin Shafran, was quite emphatic in his use of the word «all,» which would include Sen. Eric Schneiderman, the one member of the conference who has some serious skin in the convention game.

To put it simply, PAX is a gaming convention that travels to a handful of cities to allow gamers to play new and upcoming games.

For those of you who paid attention to the game developers at Indy PopCon, you'd have seen their game at the convention.

If you've been out of the dating game for some time the norms and social conventions may have changed a little so here's a quick list of do's and don'ts for first dates.

Hi im anthony im 23 and live in salem and tired of feeling lonely im a big nerd thats into games, anime, movies like Godzilla, star wars and anything horror i also like going to conventions when i get the time to.

Outgoing, fun, and I love to play video games and also I go to a lot of conventions.

The franchise extends way beyond that to include countless conventions, board games, video games, mountains of merchandise, and even a dating website...

The people who attend conventions catering to geeks — like the bustling celebration of video games, graphic novels, and anime that was last month's New York Comic Con — don't have the best reputations... counterculture, speed dating at...

I love to cosplay, go to conventions, watch all kinds of anime and play games!

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I went to grab my convention pass / wristband, which went smoothly and very little wait time, and off I was to check out my first area of interest: The Game Room.

With the growing mainstream popularity of comic book movies, conventions, video game culture, and other mediums once considered niche and nerdy, the time is ripe for geek - centric businesses to thrive.

I like a lot of nerdy stuff of course anime, video games, comics, i on occasion go to anime conventions the furthest ive been to are san japan, for comics conventions can range from across florida.

I am also a gamer mostly on a computer though and I also enjoy reading manga and attending conventions in character of those I...

When it's at the top of its game, Dexter brings True Blood to mind, subverting conventions of horror and violence to mock the various accoutrements of «normal» suburban life.

Wulverblade is a welcome return of the beat»em up genre, this time accompanied by a plot that goes far beyond the genre's conventions and a unique art style that makes the game stand out among its peers.

The fact that 2K Sports is referring to the Switch version of its basketball game as NBA 2K18 — as opposed to, say, NBA 2K Switch, or something else that doesn't follow the series» naming convention — is auspicious.

This tendency to entertain new experiences, to explore the limits of cultural conventions, is fully displayed in The Night Porter, Beyond Good and Evil (1977), and The Berlin Affair (1985), as well as in Cavani's most recent theatrical feature, Ripley's Game (2002), a psychological drama adapted from Patricia Highsmith's celebrated Ripley series.

Alongside this return of traditional 2D platforming have come games in which the developers manipulate player expectations of platforming conventions to marvelous results.

Puyo Puyo Tetris is exactly what the name suggests: a mash up of two of the most iconic gaming puzzle versus games that has a great deal of fun with toying with — and often breaking — the series conventions.

Spirit Camera is a spin - off to the Fatal Frame survival horror series that incorporated a unique gameplay convention of being able to only see and combat ghosts through the lens of mystical in - game camera.

This entry of the Wimpy Kid's diary, stars a new Greg (Jason Drucker) who hopes to use a road trip to attend a family event as a way to get to a video game convention he really wants to get to.

Hyrule still has the edge there, however, since while Fire Emblem's world feels more immediately fitting for this army - based action, it's how the conventions of Zelda are twisted to fit this format that makes the game so enjoyable.

Sadly, the only one looking forward to the party and extended family reunion is Mom (Alicia Silverstone)-- until Greg realizes they will be traveling near the location of a video game convention that he would love to attend.

Assembling a game cast of collaborators including Ed Helms, Mary Steenburgen and Amber Heard, Bell attempts to subvert new - relationship conventions for a meditation on the merits of longtime commitment, in the process overworking «he / she drives me crazy but I love him / her anyway» clichés without producing much in the way of insight, storytelling or even the effervescent humor that is fast becoming her trademark.

In the usual fashion of events leading up to the big E3 gaming convention (which is, scarily, fast - approaching) Konami is among the handful of publishers hosting a pre-show to reveal what will likely entail some next - gen game announcements.

Sitting for the franchise's last convention panel, director Francis Lawrence was joined by his three leads and fellow cast members like «Game of Thrones» star Natalie Dormer and Woody Harrelson.

It's a bold deviation from its predecessor in a lot of ways — some of which work, some of which don't — but it's also a departure from the storytelling conventions by which almost all games swear.

While there are first - looks at The World's End, The Amazing Spider - Man 2, Kick - Ass 2, and Riddick to look forward to, the entire convention is packed with TV panels on Friday, including Hall H panels for The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and the Veronica Mars movie.