Sentences with phrase «gaming equivalent of»

Unangst explained that while PC gaming may seem shiny and sophisticated from the outside, not every machine is the gaming equivalent of a racecar.

It's the gaming equivalent of reviewing an audio CD, then the Minidisc, then the cassette version.

This approach to having a limited environment and forcing the player to commit to a difficult encounter is the gaming equivalent of what occurs in an anime narrative.

It's basically interactive comfort food for me, the gaming equivalent of a big plate of fish and chips, or of wrapping yourself up in a blanket and watching you favourite movie for the millionth time.

It's like the gaming equivalent of Terry Pratchett's «Discworld» books, except the games not quite as satirical.

The gaming equivalent of a Friday night spaghetti bolognaise dinner, desperately unoriginal but gaming comfort food.

Is Mass Effect 3 the gaming equivalent of the second coming, or have Bioware finally run out of steam?

It's the gaming equivalent of Understanding Tree Improvement 101 (if we ignore the brief diversion to the Mushroom Kingdom in Morrowind).

With a massive array of different maps, tweakable parameters and instantly gratifying, bite - sized portions of strategy 10 Minute Barbarian is pretty much the gaming equivalent of a hugely tasty cereal bar and quite honestly, it feels all the better for it.

The organizers hope the Prize — which will be awarded annually from now on — will become the gaming equivalent of the prestigious Man Booker prize for literature, or Mercury Music prize for recording artists, awarded to the game with the most significant cultural relevance.

The Far Cry games are essentially the gaming equivalent of the Transformers series of films.

Activision Blizzard doesn't just need MLG to become the gaming equivalent of ESPN, it also needs it to attract the same lucrative big - brand and budget advertisers that has eluded eSports thus far.

It's very much the gaming equivalent of a B - movie, with ropey production values and countless rough edges, and yet an underlying charm that will at least appeal to some.

On top of that, being a child of the 80s, Back to the Future is one of the best movie series in history — if you talk crap about BTTF: Part 3 you're just hopping on the bandwagon and should shut your lady of the night mouth — so this news is the gaming equivalent of peanut butter and jelly.

It's the gaming equivalent of your Dad trying to dance at a party, you just want to look away and pretend it's not happening.

Like the gaming equivalent of buying a car, having it break down and seeing the supplier shrug their shoulders, far too many of us were left completely out in the open, our empty... Continue reading →

Kotaku are the gaming equivalent of the Daily Star.

Trials HD is the gaming equivalent of crack.

The gaming equivalent of watching Saturday morning cartoons, this is an easy - going marriage of puzzle solving and shooting in a game that never tries to box above its weight class, and it never has to.

Not exact matches

«Super Mario is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe.

Razer's tablet equivalent of a full fledged Windows 8 based gaming PC seems to have hit jackpot.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKS ™, cash equivalents such as money orders and prepaid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKSTM, cash equivalents such as money orders and prepaid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKSTM, cash equivalents such as money orders and prepaid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the Internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

Qualifying Purchases do not include: Balance Transfers, Cash Advances (including Convenience Checks), ATM Cash Disbursements, Money Transfers, Truck Stop Transactions, Gaming Transactions, Tax Payments, Finance Charges, Fees, Purchases of cash equivalents (even if used to purchase goods or services), Purchases made for business - related purposes, and Purchases determined by us to be made to generate Reward Points but otherwise receive limited or no other value from the transaction.

Examples of cash equivalents may include casino gaming chips, foreign currency, money orders, wire transfers and travelers checks from a non-financial institution.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKS ™, cash equivalents such as money orders and pre-paid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

Reward Points and Bonus Reward Points are not earned on cash advances and cash equivalent transactions such as the purchase of travellers cheques or gaming chips.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKSTM, cash equivalents such as money orders and prepaid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKS ™, cash equivalents such as money orders and prepaid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

ATM transactions, cash advances of any kind, balance transfers, SUPERCHECKSTM, cash equivalents such as money orders and prepaid gift cards, casino gaming chips, wire transfers, off - track wagers, lottery tickets, or bets or wagers transmitted over the Internet, fees or interest posted to a linked account, including but not limited to returned payment fees, late fees, and monthly or annual fees, do not earn cash rewards.

Its 6 teraflops of horsepower is roughly equivalent to a mid to high - end PC gaming GPU, which on the market today costs almost as much as the console itself.

Vlambeer bring a pop songwriter's sensibility to PC gaming - writing the cool, clean equivalent of a three - minute Sia smash and giving it a name...

Rad Rodgers» story is reminiscent in concept to a videogaming equivalent to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy film Last Action Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of the land.

We've all heard of Need for Speed, what seems to be the gaming equivalent to Fast and Furious.

With the iPad joining the iPhone in the battle to dominate the mobile gaming market, many developers are touting the «high definition graphics» and «silky smooth framerates» of their AppStore entries, but any gamer worth their gamerscore knows that's a load of Apple - flavored bullshit — no mobile phone game is ever going to compare, let alone compete with its console or computer equivalent.

You just have to take a look at what French company Gameloft has been doing in the past few years, taking popular gaming franchises and creating equivalents of them for phones (N.O.V.A is a Halo clone, Modern Combat 3 is Modern Warfare 3, Hero of Sparta is God of War, StarFront is StarCraft...) or taking Ubisoft staples into bite - sized chunks (Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Brothers in Arms).

I think there's an opportunity for an out of the home gaming experience to come back, especially taking VR into account, but there needs to be a modern JAMMA equivalent to let operators swap failing titles out quickly enough to allow for growth.

What is it about JRPGs that has invited this concept of heroes and antiheroes in gaming to wield giant weapons almost equivalent if not larger than themselves?

Given that Mr Pranger was fired for giving an interview to a gaming podcast and saying a bit about the company culture... well, giving the company's entire next gen plans out to random people on the internet is probably the employment equivalent of signing your own death warrant.

Local Crafters: Support the «little guy» - this festival is dedicated to highlighting independent («indie») game designers, the moral equivalent of «mom and pop shops» for the gaming industry.

The fear, I guess, that smartphone gaming would take a substantial chunk out of the console market hasn't been wholly realized — although while PS4 and Switch sales are strong, you could look to the limited success of the Vita as showing how portable play time has been substantially altered by the rise of the App Store and its equivalents.

Yves Guillemot, Chairman and CEO of Ubisoft, said that «the next generation is going to be so powerful that playing a game is going to be the equivalent of playing a CGI movie today,» however he goes on express [The Next Generation of Gaming Consoles, Chris Morris, CNBC] his excitement at the possibility of «Project Natal», which like the Kinect, will hopefully provide another half - year or so of fresh entertainment.

Gaming's equivalent of one of those guys who pulls out an acoustic guitar at a house party and starts singing Ed Sheeran songs.

Launched in 1987 by tabletop gaming specialist Games Workshop's Rick Priestly as a sci - fi - themed follow - up to highly successful orcs - and - elves franchise Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 puts the player in control of squads from the Imperium of Man, Eldar, Orks, or Daemons - equivalent to men, elves, orcs, and demons from fantasy literature - in a dystopic future known as «grimdark» after the franchise's tagline of «in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.»

With more than 84 million consoles sold into retail worldwide and $ 37.7 billion in lifetime game sales to date, Xbox 360 continues to enjoy strong momentum, fueled by a thriving community of gamers that has logged more than 88 billion hours of gameplay (equivalent to more than 100,000 centuries), while enjoying access to gaming and entertainment apps without a Gold membership, including Twitch, Upload Studio, Netflix, HBO GO, Hulu Plus, YouTube and NFL on Xbox.3

Both the brainless and smarter designed FPS's have clearly polarised opinion, you have Halo and its Covenant army running around and diving for cover when necessary, then there's other FPS titles such as Shadow Ops where the emphasis is purely on gunning down everything that moves, with not a single soldier - boasting the gaming equivalent brain of a mathematician - surprising you with an attack.

It's portable, sure, but it's what we'd call the tablet equivalent of a gaming laptop.

The iPad Pro 12.9 is the tablet equivalent of a gaming laptop.

Gaming on these devices are very primitive (think the equivalent of board games).