Sentences with phrase «last video game studio»

This round is led by the original investors in Jacobs» last video game studio, Mythic Entertainment, Inc., which was sold to Electronic Arts in 2006.

Not exact matches

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.

Last year, hundreds of jobs evaporated when Disney shuttered Pixar Canada's Vancouver studio in favour of California, and video game maker Electronic Arts transferred some offices to Ontario.

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Last year alone, China managed to grab Ingram Micro, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, General Electric Appliances, Carmike Cinemas, movie studio and even the AskMen's Top 10 Channel offers you top 10 lists on a variety of topics: dating, entertainment, travel, fitness, video games, celebrity, sports and more.

After a few years that have seen studios deciding to focus on trying to make movies out of board games, it looks, from the last couple of days, as though video games are cycling back around as the hot source material.

While video games used to be single purchases you played for however long you wanted and then put away, studios now place them on perpetual life support, intravenously pumping them with content until their last death rattle.

And Chris Franklin's Errant Signal take on Sunset (video) showed us a game concerned with the intersection of art and state power, while noting the intersection of market forces that caused would end up making Sunset the last game from two - person studio Tale of Tales.

Naughty Dog has become one of the most consistent video game developer studios, having created masterpieces like The Last of Us, Uncharted and Crash Bandicoot.

The studio also has been teaming with high fives and buzzing with energy via the hype caused by the announcement of The Last of Us at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards.

Having spent that past 20 years in the video game industry and the last 13 years starting up and running motion capture studios for RAVEN Software and Madison Media Institute.

Imaginati, a London - based studio, has made it their mission to raise the bar of storytelling and performance capture in video games and their first attempt is with the beloved Planet of the Apes license with Andy Serkis, who plays Caesar in the films, being involved in the making of Last Frontier.

Over the last decade, Virtuos has grown from a startup serving a single client to become one of the world's largest video game development companies with more than 1,000 staff spread across eight studios and offices worldwide.

Despite the studio's boasts that it would see me in court, and despite claims that lawyers were backing their case, the video was returned to me last night, indicating that Imminent Uprising (the «publisher» of the game) had failed to pursue any further action.

Hudson last represented BioWare at EA's E3 press conference this year during a concept video for the next Mass Effect game and an unannounced new IP coming from the studio.

Naughty Dog really didn't break out as a storytelling studio until its Uncharted franchise released on the PS3, but it perfected its video game narrative excellence with The Last of Us.

Choice Provisions was co-founded by industry lifers Mike Roush and Alex Neuse in 2008 with the famous last words of «Running a video game studio can't be THAT hard...» So, as they longed for greater creative freedom, they tore off their corporate shackles in favor of the self - flagellation of trying to do everything on their own.

Last year was filled to the brim with video game movies, and while very few of them were smash hits that isn't stopping other studios from trying their own spin.

This year we said goodbye to Ralph Baer, video game pioneer and inventor of the home console, while PlayStation turned 20 and Naughty Dog, the highly regarded studio behind Uncharted and The Last of Us, turned 30.

When Square Enix and IO Interactive parted ways back in May of last year, it prompted the latter to become an independent video game studio.