Sentences with phrase «games sold as»

Software sales are also very strong, no doubt helped by rave reviews for Infamous Second Son, with 20.5 million games sold as of April 13.

The game sells itself as «A game for fans of extreme arcade racing, with real dream cars and phenomenal graphics that will also please racing simulation enthusiasts.»

But that's not exactly music to the ears of game publishers who deem every second - hand copy of their game sold as missed monies.

Furthermore, developers say their games sell as well (23 percent) or better (28 percent) on the Switch as other consoles — a point worth noting since the install base for the Switch is smaller than that of its competitors.

Not exact matches

EA's plans to sell in - game upgrades for real money, in randomized packages known in the industry as «loot boxes» or «loot crates,» produced a massive outcry last Fall, severely damaging the game's financial performance.

More recently, Super Mario Odyssey has become the fastest - selling title in the Super Mario franchise's history in the U.S.. On Metacritic, Odyssey is also nearly tied with Breath of the Wild as the best - reviewed game of the year.

«Skylanders: Swap Force was the most successful game sold at Toys R Us last year and biggest action figure line, as well.»

As a 12 - year - old growing up in the South African city of Pretoria with divorced parents, Musk created a video game, Blaster, and sold it to a computer magazine for the ungodly sum of $ 500.

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

In addition to clothes and merchandise — such as a «Deadass» t - shirt ($ 32) and «Blow me» tissues ($ 3)-- FuckJerry sells a party card game called «What Do You Meme.»

Craft and hobby supply shops, as well as stores that sell toys and games, have been outperforming the overall retail industry, growing at an annual rate of 9 percent, according to AnythingResearch.com.

The glory days were over, and the sixth instalment sold only a fifth as many games as Guitar Hero 5 in its first week, and Activision shut down Guitar Hero operations in February, laying off 500 people and saying the move was «due to continued declines in the music genre.»

The phenomenal numbers put Super Mario Odyssey on the path to becoming the best selling game for the Switch, Nintendo's latest gaming console; fans are buying it even faster than they bought The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a launch title that was heralded as one of the best games in the Zelda franchise's history.

These have included King, the Irish developer of the mobile game Candy Crush, in 2014, as well as Estonia's Skype, which in 2011 sold to Microsoft for a massive $ 8.5 billion.

On the platform side, for developers we provide a number of tools and services for monetization, such as ads for advertising and selling virtual goods inside the games.

It positions selling as a zero - sum game.

The next update to Windows 10, known as the Creators Update and expected in April, includes a new e-book section in Microsoft's digital media store, which already sells movies, TV shows, games and music.

They run the gamut, from a company that makes customizable condoms, to another that sells moonshine - based liqueurs, to yet another that bills itself as a social network for gamers.

What's different, however, is that the headset costs as much as a video game console as opposed to the older devices that could sell for $ 100,000.

As Jerry Brown, associate partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's consulting practice, recalls, «I saw a presentation given by one of the major studios where they pointed out that when they sold a [game] for a console they expected to collect $ 50 per consumer and that was it.

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

After starting in March of 2008, Gamer Grub is now sold in tech stores and websites (80 locations in all), such as CompUSA and thinkgeek.com, and sales are tripling every month.

As a reporter at CNBC Make It, I've covered some of the most incredible — including a 28 - year - old whose company has made millions buying things at Walmart and reselling them on Amazon and an entrepreneur who started selling board games out of his living room.

In addition to building the first light gun — a gun - shaped controller that allows users to shoot objects on screen — he created the forerunner to Atari's Pong game as well as the colorful electronic memory game Simon, which made its debut in 1978 at Studio 54 and continues to be sold today.

Every NFL Game Ball sold in stores is inspected by hand, and must have the same specifications as those used on the field every fall.

In doing so, they're rejecting the notion that the «coins» sold in ICOs are simply tokens to access a game or a service, and treating them instead as investments.

The plan was to sell the headsets through game and electronics retailers, as well as online.

Publishers and console makers can also try to cut out pesky used - game retailers such as GameStop by going completely digital, but then those pesky retailers are likely to turn around and stop selling consoles.

The company, whose SNES Classic Edition is already selling out at stores nationwide, has reportedly filed a trademark application in Japan for a system that seems to indicate the Game Boy will be getting the Classic Edition treatment as well.

Most sales people just accept those words and the feelings they generate as part of the game of selling.

The CrypoKitties game took the ethereum world by storm last December, as eager players bought and sold the cutesy virtual creatures for tens of thousands of dollars.

As Marc explains in Game Plan Selling, winning the business of well - informed prospects is very similar to winning in sports.

As of now, nearly three years later, the Security and Exchange commission (SEC) isstill in the process of reviewing the most debatable (and a game - changing) provision of the JOBS Act — Title III, which when in effect in an unclear future, will enable businesses to sell up to $ 1 million in securities to the public in a one year period.

Flurry works with 8,000 mobile publishers, such as news outlet the Guardian and game maker Sega Corp., who use the service to sell banner ads within apps.

The amazon.com website started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell video downloads / streaming, MP3 downloads / streaming, audiobook downloads / streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.

The keys are sold by third - party providers such as Humble Bundle (in which a portion of the sale is given back to the publisher or distributor), distributed as part of a physical release to redeem the game, or given to a user as part of promotions, often used to deliver Kickstarter and other crowd funding rewards.

An intervention in the treasury market should signal an even bigger sell - off in the dollar, as everyone will know the game (QE) is on again.

Raines said investors can expect GameStop to continue to move away from stores that are dedicated to selling games as it shifts its focus to telecommunications stores and collectible stores, such as the GameStop ThinkGeek store in New York City.

The BCShop.io project provides digital service providers with a platform where they can sell their digital products, such as electronic tickets to live events, discount coupons, e-books, game currency, and software codes among others.

Raines said a 93 percent increase in GameStop's omnichannel sales shows the company doesn't need as many dedicated locations to selling games as it once did.

The game has a thriving economy as players buy and sell items using Linden Dollars.

There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic Church went to war against followers of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the Church, condemning its sale of indulgences, which were the equivalent of a «get out of jail» card in the game of Monopoly in that the Church sold them as a means for believers to get out of Purgatory.

For consumers, higher prices are fair game but smaller portions are not, says one food marketing researcher who is urging manufacturers to downsize smartly: «Some food companies act as if they are in the energy business, selling always larger volume...

In fact, in his 16 games as a starter, Chandler has accomplished what a decade of winning seasons at Washington couldn't: He has sold Don James, the conservative «Dawgfather» of the Huskies, on the big play.

Morata will not be sold by Madrid as he was brought back from Juventus with the promise of game time and a future at Madrid.

Underwood needs to prove he can elevate their games to the next level as that's the # 1 selling point for all of the 4 and 5 star guys.

Golf, especially professional golf, is now sold and marketed as a game of power.

I would also stop well short of calling it a great pitched game... but it was certainly effective, and I think to chalk it up as mostly luck and bad performance by the Nats is selling Bettis short a little bit.

As a side, don't they realize how much more they could make selling beer at these games?

This is evidenced not only by the sport's overexposure on television, the ever - expanding number of players and courts as well as the variety of equipment being sold, but also by the glut of tennis books covering every aspect of the game from Ashe to Zen.