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.
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It's nevertheless unusual for
any big new game to patch at this near - daily rate.
Giant Bomb is best known for its «Quick Look» videos, where you can get a raw, unfiltered look at how
the biggest new games actually play.
Sonic the Hedgehog: Episode 1, tower defense classic Plants vs Zombies and ubiquitous feather - flinger Angry Birds are among the grandstanding titles heading to Windows Phone 7 this Spring in
a big new games push just announced by Microsoft.
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.
And with
big new games like Hey!
Sony is in a bit of a strange position this year, where they've got a lot of games that have already been announced, that have not yet been released, so will there be
any big new game announcements or just more of the same?
With
that big new game we're all talking about coming out soon, we were lucky to grab some time with one of the developers.
The biggest new game of the week is Rockstar Games» L.A. Noire.
Apart from all the activities around
our big new game reveal, some of the Dogs have been on well - deserved breaks for the past couple of weeks, either taking some personal time off or spending time with the friends and families who we didn't see much of during the development of UNCHARTED 3.
The new series of Audience With events will take attendees behind the scenes of
the biggest new games and get them in front some of the leading creatives working in games.
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So why not release
a big new game to goose sales?
They've made an offer we'd be mad to refuse, but now they need to build on this foundation with an emphatic E3 showing; demonstrating
big new games to shout about (new Zelda or GTFO), give us new details on the likes of X (Monolith Soft are absolute legends and we desperately need more info - otherwise I'm flying out to Japan and making a scene) and cement their position; demonstrating that a great impulse buy won't just gather dust after playing Mario Kart 8 to death, rather becoming an investment in future gaming pleasure.
For many, though, simply following
the biggest new games doesn't work.
It's common knowledge that game publishers try to avoid releasing
big new games during the E3 Expo, but as we all know, Nintendo's methods are anything but common.
What's truly appealing is that you can get a gaming headset this level of quality and performance for less than the price of
a big new game.
Last year wasn't shy about
big new games either.
Here's a collection of E3 footage from some of Nintendo's
big new games.
Sony are promising «
big new game announcements and updates» after they «held back at E3» in a ploy to knock the hype right out of the Xbox One X on the eve of it's launch.
Microsoft's Xbox division could use a huge boost of
big new games.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, and assuming they're destined for critical acclaim, having completely
new and exclusive
games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Snipperclips, Arms and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 available as part of your launch year holiday lineup could prove a much
bigger deal than anyone's yet realized.
Hasbro will launch a
new game subscription service this summer, becoming the first
big toy maker to try a business model that has found success for other consumer products like razors, beauty products, and meal kits.
Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three
big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the
new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone
games like Othello, view photos and video chat.
Arkadium was scrambling to fill in for the Crimean employees who didn't make the move and trying to recover from a couple of
big bets on
new games that had vastly underperformed.
Speaking of devices, there are some
big ones missing like Apple TV, Roku and Chromecast, plus the
newer game consoles.
Moreover, there's bitterness over retailers like GameStop, the
biggest player in used
games, because they devote so much floor space to used
games in spite of the huge marketing dollars spent by publishers on
new products.
FORTUNE — There was a
big game being played in
New York, although it wasn't on Super Bowl Sunday.
While it looks like the days of
big blockbuster
games being created in Vancouver may be coming to an end, there is lots of activity going on with independent studios and various
new game initiatives.
The company also has
big things in store for 2017, when it plans to unveil its
new video
game console, the Nintendo Switch.
Meanwhile, Electronic Arts, one of the
biggest video -
game developers in the world, hyped a
new impending blockbuster called Mass Effect 3.
The rematch of 2005's
big game between the
New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles will be played on Feb. 4.
The ad, by Saatchi & Saatchi
New York and director Calle Astrand, marked Tide's first ticket to the
big game and it definitely left its... er, mark.
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.
After playing for the
New York Giants for a decade, offensive lineman Brad Benson retired from the
game in 1987, a year after «
Big Blue» beat the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI.
That kind of bold artistic vision pays off: Activision Blizzard announced this week that it shipped $ 500 million worth of
games to retailers, good enough to make Destiny «the
biggest new video
game franchise launch in history.»
While most newspapers and
big new outlets employ full - time writers to cover music, movies, theatre and other arts and entertainment, few if any have any staff devoted to just
games.
They have a tendency to play up to their opponents in
big games, and also are home to the best
new tradition in college football.
Some of the
new VR video
games that will be released will include some of the
biggest video
game franchises as well as «
new franchises,» he added.
But even more intriguing is what's happening behind the scenes — more and more teams, including Super Bowl contenders the
New England Patriots, are convinced that virtual reality will change the way players prepare for the
big game.
Each
game introduced
new technology, just as today's shooters typically do, but the creators took what appears to be
big risks to today's thinking by spinning each out into its own
new title, rather than continuing them on under one established umbrella.
Inventing a
game - changing
new product — one
big enough to offset the decline in soda — has proved more difficult.
The
biggest game - changing tool for 2011 is a
new generation of fast wireless cellular standards known as 4G.
Japanese videogames maker Nintendo Co Ltd reported its
biggest third - quarter operating profit in eight years, driven by smashing demand for its
new Switch
games console, and said it expected annual earnings to outstrip its previous estimate.
The
game, which is looking excellent so far, will not only represent the
new operation's coming - out when it launches in August, it'll also be the
biggest profile release yet to come out of Toronto, and possibly Ontario.
The
biggest video
game company in the world, Nintendo, is on the verge of releasing a
new video
game console.
The
big theory behind Ouya is this: smartphones and tablets have hugely expanded the
games market in the last five years, while these devices plus Facebook have popularised the model of free - to - play gaming, and these platforms plus Steam on the PC have sparked a
new wave of inventive indie developers.
Zuckerberg is playing a
new version of an old
game, giving away something inconsequential and making a
big deal of it.
A version of this article appears in print on October 25, 2011, on Page D3 of the
New York edition with the headline: A
Big -
Game Hunt by Early North Americans.