Sentences with phrase «game fad»

The bottom dropped out of the industry, and it looked like the video game fad had run it's course.

1) Has horribly ugly graphics 2) Has terrible animation 3) Has poor shadow effects 4) Has a jerky sometimes stuttering frame rate 5) Is part of the yet another zombie game fad 6) Swears gratuitously in its first 5 seconds 7) Is overpriced 8) Is being used to test and fund yet another mediocre MMO 9) Is supposedly «open world» but its game over if you leave the «mission area».

«Someday, we will look back on the Great Music Game Fad and remember the glut of titles and the mountains of instruments at Best Buy and the $ 299 video game controller and go, «Wow, what was that all about?»

But like with any video game fad, it's not the technology but how you use it.

It's this steady growth that precludes indie games from being the next big video game fad.

People often wonder what's the next big video game fad?

Esports is without a doubt the next big video game fad.

The Kinect is dead, proving that all video game fads and gimmicks eventually come to an end.

Not exact matches

The brand that started in the 1990s with playing cards and video games exploded in popularity again with the release of the augmented reality game Pokemon Go last summer, which momentarily catapulted Nintendo stock, though the game proved to be mostly a passing fad.

Outdoor hockey games have certainly become a new fad.

He's letting Chris Christie be this year's fad while playing the long game.

The fad for video games may be ruining the eyesight of Japanese children, a survey by the education ministry suggests.

But anyone like me who enjoys curious games of the past, appreciates the Japanese penchant for drama, just loves pretty and moody female protagonists and is fed up with most of modern gaming fads can find plenty to like about Bullet Witch.

Then Brooks invites the guests out to his rich - guy house for a different kind of game night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into maygame night, modeled on those murder mystery dinner parties that became a fad a few years ago, and «Game Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayGame Night» becomes a roller coaster ride, whisking the audience through broad slapstick, deadpan exchanges and imminent threats that sometimes erupt into mayhem.

It's clear games are no passing fad, as this generation are hooked on gaming well into adulthood!

Do you wonder if games and gamification are just the latest instructional design fad?

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

Are they a fad or game - changer?

The longer you've been in the real estate game, the better you become at identifying the differences between smart, successful investing strategies and the ones that are a fad and that result in failure.

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Cerny had seen the ups and downs of games being treated as a fad, as amusement, as art, as a serious medium.

I'm not sure what has sparked this resurgence of point and click adventure games other than the very real nostalgia fad that companies are cashing in on like mad, but as someone who grew up p...

Kotaku: Given that we talked about your experience with games as sort of fads as amusements, those Computer Game Developer Conferences with the more serious - minded stuff, what's your sense of the potential of games?

The Wii may have sold a lot, but it has been universally accepted as a fad and a semi-poor console (saved mainly by the quality of Nintendo's own games) by the majority of people who bought it, especially core gamers, and it rapidly declined in sales very early in its life cycle as a by - product of this.

It's a fad game like Zumba fitness, and the Guitar Heroes (or DDRs if you want to go back even further) of the world.

Nintendo managed to turn that stupid white box into a money press... because they made games that worked with the fad, not just because of the fad.

Even Nintendo has seemed to figure out that it was just a fad, as I mentioned with their shift in direction toward reviving classic titles, plus the 3DS, a system that's building itself on classic games over anything else.

Amidst this changing tide, developers and gamers alike are weathering the storm with their claims of Nintendo's new system being «a fad» and look forward to it dying out in the months to come.

We've seen the Pokemon GO fad, which may serve as a demonstration of the power of games to reclaim and transform public spaces.

I will continue to say it's all a fad & I'm glad I didn't waste my 500 + dollars on PSVR.I bought the PS4 Pro with a slew of games & a 4k hdr tv... I couldn't be more content.

Well see how long this Fad of a game will last.

Virtual reality which was a fad in the video game industry once upon a time, is now trendy again.

all these fad games that come along, like Angry Birds or Candy Crush, the one thing they all seem to have in common is that they're pointless, I like at least the pretense of story and characters, an actual concrete ending, otherwise I feel like I'm just wasting my time, I've just never been too keen on puzzle games, music games, racing games, sports games etc for that reason

Older people have less patience for endless crunch time, BS management, new overhyped fads (but that's more in Web development than game), unreal deadlines, etc..

They'd like you to pick some awesome outfits for them before they explore this unique fad in this dress up game for girls.

For a while it seemed that video games were just a fad that had finally passed.

Of course, we want to make our games a hit, but we aren't trying to make them a hit through «fads,» but rather «the stuff that we really want to make.»

They're amazingly fun games which set off a huge fad back in the 90s and maintain a steady fanbase even today.

Transcending consumer fads, the Game Developers Choice Awards feature games and developers that are truly worthy of recognition.

It sounds like some folks wanted to cash in easy money on the zombie fad and Bioshock gameplay by developing a game in one week.

The gaming market is slowly being overrun by this fad and developers seem to want to cash in on the trend while it lasts (take a look at the upcoming Yakuza game).

Plastic guitars flew off of shelves into the hands of eager gamers — and unlike many fads in gaming, which come and go cyclically, this one made everybody happy.

- «I made a bunch of cash - in sumo wrestling games, which were a big fad at the time.

With games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Karaoke Revolution, and Singstar, music games have become the major fad in the gaming industry.

Some gamers frown at this recent neo-retro surge, reducing it to a fad.

Industry fads such as motion controls and VR ignore the needs of disabled folks, especially when they have the nerve to not include a way to enjoy these games without using them.

Turning PS1 and Nintendo 64 games of the era into Game Boy Color titles was something of a fad at the time (consider the handheld versions of Metal Gear Solid and Perfect Dark, for instance) and the end results were never pretty.

Maybe it's me but I find it weird that the «musically shaped» feature is posited as a neglected thing in games when in reality it is, if not a genre in itself, then a robust niche within «rhythm gaming» (it remains a thing after rhythm gaming has died a fad's death) and indie / portable gaming in general.

The franchise that virtually invented and defined epic and cinematic singleplayer stories in video games is now denying its legacy just to be able to pursue a new fad (which, by the way, not many people expect from a CoD in the first place).

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