This isn't too
much of a surprise announcement considering there have been various leaks related to this news over the last few months, but now we have confirmation at last.
Sofia Coppola was a
bit of a surprise announcement for Best Director for The Beguiled as she was not called back to the red carpet, which usually means that film or person isn't winning.
In addition to four new smartphones, TCL made
something of a surprise announcement with the 1T series, an all - new Android tablet lineup with compact devices that don't break the bank.
Hewlett - Packard's (HPQ) stock plunged more than 20 percent Friday, wiping out $ 12 billion in share value, as investors recoiled from a
series of surprise announcements that portend major changes for the world's largest tech company.
Outside of a
couple of surprise announcements — most notably Monster Hunter: World and the Shadow of the Colossus remake — this felt almost like a re-run of last year's press conference.
Santa Barbara, Calif. — In an extraordinary shift from the
tradition of a surprise announcement, the Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara, Inc. (DSB) is announcing their annual «Citizen of the Year» award recipient in advance of their Annual Meeting and Awards Breakfast, scheduled for Thursday, February 26, 2015.
As much as I'd love to have
lots of surprising announcements, they could spend a lot of time explaining few titles (Star Fox, etc.) if they think they deserve it.
We're due an absolute
boatload of surprise announcements on Saturday when Geoff Keighley's well - spent ass - licking contacts pay dividends at the trailer-fest that is the Video Game Awards.
With so much speculation as to what direction Microsoft could take the Xbox brand moving forward, and whether said brand can survive shared software support with the most dominant operating system in the world, this writer speculates the potential
impact of a surprise announcement that could see Microsoft reveal the exact opposite.
Even the slightest
possibility of a surprise announcement of Team Ico's elusive The Last Guardian getting a release doesn't absolve Sony from needing to prove to gamers why they should be playing titles on a PlayStation 4 and not an Xbox One.
I got a behind - closed - doors demo of the upcoming monster slaying adventure, which was one
of the surprise announcements of Sony's E3 showcase, and I'm officially hungry for more.
Coming to me as
somewhat of a surprise announcement, it has just been confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 5 is indeed in the pipeline - news from IG, a French gaming magazine, has quoted Hideo Kojima to have said:
However, in
something of a surprise announcement, Panos Panay, corporate vice president of devices at Microsoft and head of the Surface team, unveiled the Surface Book i7, a new high - end version of the company's existing Surface Book two - in - one.
One
of the surprise announcements of the most recent Nintendo Direct was a set of amiibos for Mario Party 10.
One
of the surprising announcements that came out of Iwata's keynote at GDC 2009 was the addition of Virtual Console Arcade, which adds arcade games to the ever - expanding list of platforms available through Wii.
Back during the April Nintendo Direct, one
of the surprise announcements was that Starbreeze Studios was bringing Payday 2 to the Nintendo Switch.