Sentences with phrase «last big franchises»

With the Wii U struggling to gain market share, this is one of the last big franchises that needs an original entry on Nintendo's newest piece of hardware.

Unlike Bungie's last big franchise, Halo, I never feel super overpowered in this game.

Not exact matches

I had the chance last week to see a preview of Ubisoft Montreal's newest big - budget game franchise, Watch Dogs, and boy is it looking good.

Crowdfunding has made a big splash in the last few years as sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have helped entrepreneurs launch donut shops, produce albums and create smart watches; theoretically, it's a perfect vehicle for franchising.

God's Not Dead 3, the third movie in a franchise that's enjoyed financial success in the past, opened to a measly $ 2 million last weekend, finishing below the low bar set by Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, one of the biggest commercial and critical flops in history.

MLB — Last night saw a big comeback from the Blue Jays in the longest game in their franchise history:

WWE 2K18 is a big improvement over the last iteration of the franchise.

Sales of the franchise have been declining in the last few years, which is why this overhaul finally happened, but the new game even seems to have been rejected by its biggest fans.

The 23 - year - old leads the teen action franchise and also had fans in tears last year with the big - screen adaptation of John Green's popular film The Fault in Our Stars.

One of the biggest movie franchises for the last decade is finally coming to an end.

The Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious franchises all derived from its halls, as did last year's one - two punch of Split and Get Out (the company's two biggest hits to date).

The last big screen Star Trek movie (Nemesis in 2002) happened to be the least commercially successful in the franchise.

New «Star Wars» Trilogy The big news in a galaxy far, far away last week was that the franchise is getting a brand new film trilogy.

There was always room for a couple of big franchises to compete with Skylanders, but it's not a genre I can see lasting for the long term.

Last year GLAAD did a big call out to Disney - owned Star Wars considering the sci - fi film franchise features «unique worlds whose advanced societies can serve as a commentary on our own.»

One of the big new features goes to MyLeague, originally introduced last year as a super-customizable franchise mode, which has received an optional online element.

Spall, known to most audiences for supporting roles in big budget fare like «Enchanted,» «The Last Samurai,» «Sweeney Todd,» and the «Harry Potter» franchise, portrays the great Joseph Mallord William Turner.

After years of being the biggest (and in many cases, the only) horror movie franchise in theatres around Halloween, the Saw franchise was dethroned last year by Oren Peli's surprise hit Paranormal Activity, which outgrossed Saw VI by a fairly wide margin.

Late last year, we were astounded when Harry Potter director Yates revealed he was working on a Doctor Who movie saying it would need a «radical transformation» to bring the franchise to the big screen.

The second to last entry in what is a so - so franchise, «The Divergent Series: Allegiant» is squirrelly, chasing from one big concept to another without satisfactorily executing most of them.

With New Line having updated the decade's two biggest franchise starters in 2009's Friday the 13th and last year's Nightmare on Elm Street, we're now left to tackle more obscure genre selections,

«The Lone Ranger» is a franchise so long dormant — a radio series that moved onto TV in the 1950s, the property last saw the big screen in 1981's ill - begotten «The Legend of the Lone Ranger» — that Verbinski and his writers think the only way out is to reduce the story to ironic rubble.

Following the disappointing returns and critical reaction to X-Men: Apocalypse last summer, the franchise bounced back big this spring with the definitive Wolverine movie Logan.

Last year the big addition to the franchise was the addition of the Ryder Cup mode.

The last decade or so has seen a number of young adult novel series come to life on the big screen in the form of blockbuster film franchises.

But with «Chronicle» director Josh Trank working on a version of acclaimed game «Shadow Of The Colossus,» things might be looking up, and now another serious name has come on to take a role both in front of and behind the camera with a big - screen take on one of the most acclaimed and best - selling game franchises of the last few years.

Just last year, Get Out ($ 255 million) and the aforementioned Girls Trip were two of the biggest box - office hits relative to their budgets; 2015's Straight Outta Compton made over $ 200 million thanks a strong showing overseas; and the diversely cast Fast & Furious franchise is eight movies deep and showing no signs of slowing down.

As reported in Deadline, The Big Bang Theory «s Johnny Galecki (previously seen in I Know What You Did Last Summer) is currently shooting Rings, the third instalment of the $ 400m franchise inspired by 1998 J - horror Ringu (itself based on the novel by Koji Suzuki).

But the problem is that the first two films in the first franchise (I can't get into Last Stand) aren't as big and bombastic and melodramatic as the more recent ones.

As much as the film seemed like it was going to be a shoe - in for success based on critics» praise and a savvy social media campaign leading up to the release, it was still the third Spider - Man franchise to hit the big screen in the last 15 years.

Out of all the new franchises that Nintendo has introduced in the last 10 years, only Splatoon managed to have a big success with the core Nintendo market.

In the last decade or so, franchises such as Mass Effect, Uncharted, The Last of Us, and The Witcher have all made significant contributions to video games as a storytelling medium, but Metal Gear Solid is, for the lack of a better term, their big blast decade or so, franchises such as Mass Effect, Uncharted, The Last of Us, and The Witcher have all made significant contributions to video games as a storytelling medium, but Metal Gear Solid is, for the lack of a better term, their big bLast of Us, and The Witcher have all made significant contributions to video games as a storytelling medium, but Metal Gear Solid is, for the lack of a better term, their big boss.

Install base is too big for last gen, too small for current gen.. The top - grossing franchises must continue to print money.

On the podcast, he mentioned that he's working on an animated project tied to one of the biggest game franchises in the last 30 years.

Destiny move 550,000 + PS4's in September last year in the U.S. alone and over 1 million worldwide, so is moving 300,000 for such a big franchise that great really?

During E3 last year Ubisoft revealed the next installment in the Trackmania franchise and made it known that the next installment would have a big presence on Consoles as well as PC.

One of the biggest reasons why the Xbox 360 has sold as many systems as it has done over the last few years, is because of the Halo franchise.

People Can Fly has been given a chance to dabble in one of Epic Games» bigger franchises, but did they make a lasting impression?

If you told us a year ago that Bungie would not only be developing their next big game for the PlayStation 4, but would make it their platform of choice, we would have most likely dismissed your sentiment immediately, as the notion at the time would have seemed as unlikely as developers Naughty Dog, behind the legendary Uncharted franchise and The Last of Us on the PS3 developing for the Xbox 360 or Xbox One.

Originally an indie title, it's blown up in popularity over the last few years and has become one of the biggest gaming franchises to ever exist.

Especially with how it closely resembles one of their biggest franchises, Last of Us.

I'm one of those whose first experience with the Resident Evil franchise was the fourth installment, hyping it up as the last big GameCube exclusive (we all know how that turned out).

Founded in Espoo, Finland in 1995, Remedy is an internationally renowned developer of some of the biggest AAA video game franchises of the last 20 years, such as Max Payne, Alan Wake and Quantum Break.

The biggest gaming franchise of the last decade took over Comic - Con and we have all the latest.

But the biggest new game franchises of the last decade have been from outside Japan, including Halo by Microsoft, and the hits from Activision Blizzard and Take - Two Interactive.

Once the biggest brand in Sony's stable — it's probably been eclipsed by the likes of Uncharted, The Last of Us, and even Horizon in recent times — the series continues to be a steady seller, with the franchise racking up over 80.4 million units since its inaugural edition in 1998.

And while third parties are happy to offer Switch ports of kid - friendly franchises and last - gen remasters, the system doesn't have the power to support direct ports of today's biggest blockbuster hits (a problem the Wii and Wii U also had).

Gears of War 4 didn't do much to increase sales last year, yet people were hyping this lesser known franchise's installment to be a bigger system seller than an installment in a flagship Xbox series.

They blew it with the Star Wars games this gen (cept for SWTOR), I remember last gen when Star Wars games were on top with the big franchises.

Other Blizzard games include the StarCraft franchise, which was once the world's biggest esport, Overwatch, a hugely popular shooter released last year, the Diablo franchise, which includes some of the most well - loved action RPG games ever, and Hearthstone, a massively profitable online card game.