Sentences with phrase «game was a major hit»

The game was a major hit when it first launched, thanks to its stellar campaign and enjoyable progression to the Power Level cap.

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The racy Grand Theft Auto IV isn't the only major game coming out this spring — Capcom's Devil May Cry 4 was released in February; Sony's Gran Turismo 4 Prologue hit shelves in April; and God of War: Chains of Olympus in March, the same month as Nintendo's Super Smash Bros..

While zooming through three levels of the minor leagues last season, Snider batted.275 -LRB-.349 OBP,.480 slugging) with 23 home runs and 91 RBIs.After a late - August call - up to the majors he hit.301 in 24 games and now saysthat playing in the big leagues was «easier than I thought.»

Betts also hit a bases - loaded infield single to drive in his fourth run of the day, and he's now batted.283 /.358 /.447 with seven homers in his first 58 major - league games.

Cooke was given a five - minute major and a game misconduct for the hit.

Sano was an integral part of the Twins» success in 2017, hitting.264 /.352 /.507 with 28 home runs in 114 games in his third major league season.

The hit was clean, even though McCabe was given a five - minute major and a game, it's just unfortunate that Paille was stumbling forward as he got hit.

The last time I played Wiffle Ball, Lyndon Johnson was President, Mickey Mantle was hitting home runs for the Yankees and the game with the plastic bat and ball was strictly for kids, a safe way for parents to introduce future major leaguers to the national pastime.

This postseason, Cuberson is 6 - for - 13 -LRB-.462) with four extra-base hits after a season that saw him play in just 15 major league games in the regular season, with two singles in 13 at - bats.

I sincerely want us to sign higuain, he's learnt aw tu play in italy which means he's learnt to b physical in his game coupled wit d sleek style of play at madrid, he has al d elements tu succeed in d epl, he's played in two diff leaque nd has bin successful fo me, so wenger sign higuain he's more proven across two major leaques dan any oda striker available in europe, we need a striker dat can hit d ground runnin immediately nt d one dat wil need time tu adapt.

Finally, the only person between Rose and Joe DiMaggio and his «unbreakable» major league standard of 56 in 1941 was Willie Keeler, who established the alltime National League record in 1897 by hitting»em where they weren't in 44 straight games.

Pete Rose is Major League Baseball's all - time hits leader, but he's not in the Hall of Fame because he was banned from the game for life for gambling.

But it's going to take 100 victories to win the NL West, and the Astros, 81 - 81 last year, aren't that good yet — not with a shortstop (Andujar Cedeno) who spent half of last season in the minors, a leftfielder (Luis Gonzalez) who hit only.243 and a catcher (Eddie Taubensee) who has played in just 130 major league games.

For the year, all Rodriguez had done was take the major league lead in home runs (17), RBIs (49) and runs (43); become the first player to hit eight homers in Yankee Stadium in April and the first to drive in 10 runs in a game there; and move within two homers of becoming the first player (chart, page 41) to hit 400 before his 30th birthday.

Doan was given a five - minute major penalty for boarding and a game misconduct for the hit.

The injury was the result of a hit to the head from Matt Niskanen in Game 4 that yielded a five - minute major penalty and a game misconduct, but no supplemental discipline from the leaGame 4 that yielded a five - minute major penalty and a game misconduct, but no supplemental discipline from the leagame misconduct, but no supplemental discipline from the league.

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The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

One of the greatest fears shared by major - league pitchers — and hitters — was realized at a spring training game in Surprise, Ariz., last Wednesday night: Aroldis Chapman, the fireballing Cincinnati Reds closer, was hit flush in the face by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez.

For Disney to duplicate its 2013 success, it will need films like Sleeping Beauty spin - off Maleficent, video game adaptation Need for Speed, and musical Into the Woods to be major hits, and that doesn't seem likely.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

Due to Red Dead Revolver being the first entry in the franchise, it was logical to assume that the game would be Red Dead 3 or that it would have a subtitle beginning with «Re», and indeed Rockstar opted to keep the full title of their previous major hit, calling the sequel Red Dead Redemption 2.

While this is going on, the administration of Major League baseball's stat - checking efforts reveal an error in a game from the early»80s, in which Ross's hits were counted twice.

We're hoping the game won't be hit by any more delays, but Rockstar has a history of pushing major titles back several times, not just once.

No more DLC is planned for the smash hit open - world game, with the 1.9 patch its last planned major infusion of content, Bethesda announced today.

Speaking of which, the integration between the game in portable and docked mode is done really well with no major hit on the performance or visuals.

The sequel will be hitting all of the major consoles this time around and will try to keep the series fresh by making the game a musical.

Where for most authors, 99 % of authors out there, authors like me, who are not going to hit a major best seller list no matter what they do, I say play the long game.

Comi and cutting - edge game designer Zeitgeist Games today announced the release of the iPhone version of Aimee Major Steinberger's smash - hit manga journal «Japan Ai — A Tall Girl's Adventure in Japan» — named one of the Young Adults Librarian Association's Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens of 2009!

The iPad is hard to compete against, but the surge in video game consoles with touchscreen accessories may hit Amazon in a major way.

Don't be down by the negativity, hit that price point on all major outlets and see your game being a staple of indie gaming for years.

First up there are major traversal changes coming, with jumping and climbing set to impact the way players interact with the world «a big way», with vehicles, helicopters, and base building also set to land before the game hits 1.0.

Coming off of a successful 2014 seeing major games like Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart 8, and Hyrule Warriors hit store shelves, fans were eager to see what else Nintendo had coming in 2015 to follow up on the momentum... Continue reading →

The game has its moments, but never really becomes more than a short burst of time filling between major games, at the best of times it just works, other times it can get glitchy, sure it's easy to control the bike, but for one reason or another the AI can't do it to save their lives, it doesn't help that their as light as a small child and have about as much physical tolerance as one too, one hit can be all you need to dethrone your competition only for them to get back up and get stuck in a wall, or to the back of a parked car.

A highly awaited spin - off from smash - hit Reckless Racing, Reckless Getaway was awarded «Game of the Week» honors in all major App Store regions, including the US, UK, France and Germany.

In the home video game market, sales of more than one million units is the generally accepted standard for a major hit.

This was a surprise to me: There's a new version of the hit 90s trivia game You Don't Know Jack coming to just about every major platform.

Coming off of a successful 2014 seeing major games like Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart 8, and Hyrule Warriors hit store shelves, fans were eager to see what else Nintendo had coming in 2015 to follow up on the momentum earned.

News out of Rockstar Games today is that the first of two major additions to the smash hit GTA Online this summer called Ill - Gotten Gains will be hitting the showrooms of luxury car dealerships, the shelves of top arms suppliers and other prestigious retailers in the game during the month of June.

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.

Ahead of the upcoming summer blockbuster, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra video game is set to hit every major gaming platform except the PC.

The list is pretty long considering it covers all the major games in the franchise, so make sure to hit the jump to see the complete list.

The game industry will be stuck trying to push the wall it hit but even if it moves, the lack of major advancements will lead to staleness, followed closely by mediocrity.

Creatively we hit a home run, but our other major goal was to prove that there was a space between indie and AAA games that could work commercially.»

Classic «core gamers» — the ones that play most major hits or jump from indie game to indie game — are relatively rare when compared to overall gaming audience.

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Yep that's right, as part of a free update hitting Xbox One, PS4 and PC gamers on May 17th 2018, Hero's March will bring a brand new map — that of Beachhead — some major reworking to the Orochi and Peacekeeper heroes, a collection of visuals and much more.

Another major Bethesda game hitting the Switch along with Doom and Skyrim is Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus.

Microsoft's console is the exclusive home of EA Access ($ 30 per year or $ 5 per month), which provides access to an all - you - can - play buffet of games that includes major hits such as Star Wars Battlefront and Dragon Age: Inquisition as well as Xbox 360 classics like Skate 3 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.