Sentences with phrase «in entertainment games»

Aesthetics are as important in learning games as they are in entertainment games.

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• Black Dog Venture Partners acquired a ten percent stake in Wobbl3 Entertainment, a Salt Lake City - based video game developer.

And since we're talking about video games, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada has released a few new snippets of data just in time for E3.

The company is looking to continue the momentum with the release of its first big new game in some time, Splatoon, as well as a spate of new announcements set for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles next week.

The team is using Epic Games» Unreal Engine 4 technology, which is used in upcoming games such as Capcom's Street Fighter V and Chair Entertainment's Spyjinx, to re-create Mars» completely alien atmosphere.

Nintendo's Wii U video - game handheld console is displayed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, California, June 7, 2011 (Photo: Bloomberg / Getty)

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

I'm in Los Angeles this week for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is one of the biggest video game shows in the world.

At the Vita's launch party in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, I chatted with Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, about the Vita, PlayStation and game trends in general.

This latest trailer comes just a couple weeks after the 10th anniversary of GTA: III, thought by many to be a watershed moment where video games began to be seen as a serious form of adult entertainment that could also rake in millions of dollars.

Evolution's developers, Jeff Sember and Don Mattrick (who now heads up Microsoft's interactive entertainment business), went on to form Distinctive Software and became one of the largest publishers of video games not owned by a console maker in the 1980s.

The pricing, as Sony Computer Entertainment group chief executive Andrew House affirmed at a press conference at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, is important given what the other emergent VR powers are charging for their hardware.

And while the entertainment value is high — imagine fighting off a zombie apocalypse in your backyard — AR isn't just for games.

The shame of it is that last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the Olympics of video games, wasn't big news anywhere in the country despite the fact that Canadians — particularly those working at Ubisoft's Canadian studios — cleaned up and stole the show.

Ever since the Atari 2600 and the original Nintendo became living - room accessories in the late»70s and early»80s, video games have largely been a console - based entertainment.

According to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, the games industry contributes $ 1.7 billion a year to our economy in the form of jobs and the expenditures they make possible.

Chen Tianqiao, who built game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment into what was once China's biggest internet company (big enough to rival Alibaba and Tencent), disappeared after leaving China and taking his company private in 2012.

I spent last week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles and, while I certainly gained some followers through my video - game - related tweets, I'm sure I lost some too.

«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).

Interactive entertainment company Activation Blizzard, which makes the beloved Overwatch game, is also a heavyweight in the industry.

China Mobile Games & Entertainment Group plans to distribute mobile games in Mexico.

Apostolopoulos's events company, Triple Sports and Entertainment, organized an exhibition game in August 2010 between Italy's AC Milan and Greek club Panathinaikos that drew a crowd of 30,000.

It was perhaps the first game console that truly went beyond just games, transforming in its latter years into the full entertainment system that the Xbox's original creators envisioned.

On Monday, King Digital Entertainment, the maker of runaway hit game Candy Crush Saga, filed for an initial public offering in the U.S.

Few adults get to play video games at the office, but if you're Jade Raymond, managing director of Ubisoft Entertainment SA's Toronto office, you can expect a lot of time in front of a screen.

The head of Microsoft's interactive entertainment division seems right at home onstage in front of a large audience of journalists and video - game developers at the Galen Center arena in Los Angeles, where thousands of insiders are gathered for the annual Electronic Entertainmententertainment division seems right at home onstage in front of a large audience of journalists and video - game developers at the Galen Center arena in Los Angeles, where thousands of insiders are gathered for the annual Electronic EntertainmentEntertainment Expo, or E3.

Maybe some freelancers will get tossed a couple bucks for a story or two, but E3 and video games in general are a far cry from being taken as seriously as other areas of technology and entertainment.

TORONTO — Hockey fans can expect to see the Canadian Tire logo in - ice during Toronto Maple Leafs home games at the Air Canada Centre under a new partnership with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd..

Game enthusiasts and industry personnel walk past the Nintendo Switch exhibit during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 on June 13, 2017 in Los Angeles.

Visitors play the game «Farpoint» with the virtual reality head - mounted «Playstation VR» developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment during the «Paris Games Week» on October 26, 2016 in Paris, France.

It was reported two weeks ago that Sony Pictures Entertainment will play ball with video game publisher / developer Ubisoft — appeasing what others have called unreasonable demands — in order to make a movie out of the company's massively successful, Montreal - developed franchise, Assassin's Creed.

With the advent of the smartphone came a boon for the gaming industry, and new niches within the indie - gaming scene have created a whole new lens through which games can be viewed; we are more aware than ever that games can teach us or exist as experiential art in addition to the entertainment they provide.

The group that oversees game ratings in North America, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), is framing the move around parents being informed.

Microsoft's head of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick, has left the software company to take the top job at social games maker Zynga, leaving his former division potentially vulnerable in the months before a major new product launch.

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

«He is one of the most creative talents in the history of games,» said Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SNE) in a video announcing the partnership.

A gamer plays Metal Gear Solid Touch on a mobile device in the Konami exhibit at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 16, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

Cineplex's recent partnership with sports entertainment company Topgolf will also see dining complexes centred around digital golf games using micro-chipped balls make their way to the Canadian market after success in the U.S.

Virtual reality video games, movies, and other forms of entertainment are in short supply.

«Starcraft,» released in 1998 by Blizzard Entertainment, is a real - time strategy game where players build a military base, mine resources, and attack other bases.

In its current state, the App Store has two main categories: games and entertainment.

Advertising dollars, in turn, allow the Saints to spend far more than the average minor - league team on creative promotions and game - day entertainment.

Local gamers also face tougher regulation than peers in the United States, South Korea or Japan, with a recent government push to emphasize «core socialist values» in entertainment products including songs, online streaming and video games.

E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is the largest annual video game expo in the world, and will take place between Tuesday and Thursday in Los Angeles.

ArtCraft Entertainment, a video game developer in Austin, is considering an Indiegogo campaign to find investors for Crowfall, a game it plans to release next year.

But Mr. Kutcher is the most prominent entertainment figure in the high - tech venture capital game, and he puts more than his money into it.

In the NES Remix series, a variety of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games are given a new lease on life.

A gamer plays the video game Battlefield 4 at the EA booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

«Threats of violence and harassment are wrong,» the Entertainment Software Association, the main lobbying group for big game companies, said in a statement.

The world - renowned game companies and hundreds of game developers and publishers made statement jointly, and conducted in - depth discussion and cooperation on topics such as digital entertainment culture and new economies.