Sentences with phrase «gaming event of the first»

The launch of The Division was the gaming event of the first quarter of 2016, and to see it fall so far, so quickly, is disquieting.

Not exact matches

This summer, a Black Panther - inspired convention called Wakandacon is coming to Chicago, with a press release calling it «a first of its kind» event that will celebrate «Afro - futurism, tech, and entertainment» as well as «black superheroes in film, gaming, television, and comic books.»

The Harvest Moon games were some of the first titles in the gaming world to combine gameplay and dating mechanics, featuring a complicated marriage system and many events such as festivals and happenings around town.

PS4's North American launch heralds the dawn of a new gaming generation, and today we're upping the ante with an interactive event called First to Greatness.

Confirmed judges for the first ever IGF Mobile event are: - Mike Yuen, Senior Director, Gaming Group, Qualcomm - David Gosen, CEO, I - play - Arjan Olsder, Writer, Mobilegamesblog.com - Darryl Williams, Senior Director of Content, Playphone - Justin Davis, Editor - in - chief, Modojo - Demetri G. Detsaridis, Creative Director, Massively Mobile - Stuart Dredge, Writer, Pocket Gamer - Neil Trevett, Vice President Mobile Content, NVIDIA - Monty Munford, Business Development Director, Player X - Steve Wetherill, President, Uztek Games - Matthew Hawkins, Writer, zedgeHeadz - Michael Chang, CEO, Greystripe - John Walker, Writer, Rock Paper Shotgun Like the main IGF competition (part of the CMP Game Group, as is Gamasutra), the IGF Mobile will have its own pavilion featuring the finalists on the show floor at the Game Developers Conference 2008 next February, and all finalist games will be available to play at the pavilion.

One month after debuting as an invite - only test event, the mobile version of Fortnite has become a bona fide smartphone gaming sensation, having grossed more than $ 25 million in its first 30 days — and it has only been available to all iOS gamers since April 1.

The event will be open to all badge holders of SXSW or SXSW Gaming on a first - come, first - seated basis.

Making his first appearance in Donkey Kong, Mario and his many friends / enemies have been playable characters in many different gaming forms throughout their careers, starring in various styles of games well beyond their initial debuts (kart racing, baseball, olympic events, various party games).

Penny Arcade, to host one of the internet's largest gaming communities, and ReedPOP, the world's leading producer of pop culture events, announced PAX Unplugged, its first tabletop gaming focused event, in front of tens of thousands of attendees today at PAX South.

«We also delivered a strong sales performance in the first half of the financial year, driven by our ability to capitalise on strong customer demand for consoles (particularly Nintendo Switch ™); a stronger line up of new software releases and the further development of the Group's gaming experiences and events offering.

Over two hundred thousand people witnessed a Twitch TV first, an arcade gaming event bringing in hundreds of thousands of viewers for the first time ever.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

One week ago was the first instalment of the Tribeca Games Festival, an event tagged onto the end of the annual Tribeca Film Festival that brought in gaming luminaries like Hideo Kojima and Ken Levine to speak directly to audiences not about their current projects, but to just talk ideas, past works, influences, games vs. film and technology (VR in particular).

Raking in rave reviews, the lengthy, expansive, isometric role - play gaming offers a direct continuation from the events of the first game, albeit in an entirely new setting with new gameplay, new features, and a fully voice - acted script.

Exactly one month after opening the registration for the first Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco, Google announced the winners of this gaming event which took place last Saturday, September 24th.

Xiaomi has announced their first gaming laptop during the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S smartphone event, so now Xiaomi is finally expanding its laptop / notebook portfolio of just 2 Windows notebooks.

The HomeFinder.com Race for the Home event in Atlanta is one of the first real estate campaigns to leverage the location - based gaming frenzy.