Sentences with phrase «of both video games»

Nintendo is considered by many to be the Disney of video games.

Nintendo Switch owners have reported that they have scratched the screens of their video game consoles when putting it into the accompanying Dock to play on their televisions.

In October 2015, rumors surfaced that the company was in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a well - known organizer of video game tournaments, though Activision (atvi) ultimately acquired the company earlier this year for $ 46 million.

Microsoft (msft) is reportedly developing «the Netflix of video games» and last year Hulu commissioned four original series about online gaming competitions.

Freddie Wong, whose channel has 7.5 million subscribers, is the Los Angeles — based creator of Video Game High School.

We even bounced around the idea of video game consoles inside each store.

It was in these meetings doing what I loved — solving problems with technology — that I realized there had to be a way to take the alluring pull of video games and tie it to brands to drive loyalty and sales.

In the case of video games, rumours have been circulating for a while now about both Sony and Microsoft implementing technology into their next - generation consoles — expected this year — that would make it impossible to play used products.

The problem we have now and why we don't allow copying, in most cases, of video games is that you can make one copy or five, six, seven, 10 and you can decide to distribute them.

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.

Two years ago, Hawk was struck by the idea of a video game with a skateboard controller.

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.

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

Virtual reality means more than strapping on a headset and placing virtual blocks in a souped - up version of the video game Minecraft.

Just take it from video game developer Robby Leonardi, who made his online resume in the form of a video game.

It comes from the world of video games.

After we had explored the massive, adventure - filled world of «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» and the massive, adventure - filled world of «Horizon Zero Dawn,» it became clear that 2017 was shaping up to be one of the best years in the history of video games.

Cloud gaming was also the focus of a story I did for Canadian Business, which looked at how large studios are hoping for something like a Netflix of video games to emerge.

Jackson: I find the progress of video games inspiring.

I've got a story in the new issue of Canadian Business magazine about the rise of cloud gaming — or online services that act much like Netflix do in that they sell streaming access to the same sorts of video games you'd find on your Xbox or Playstation.

The producer of video game franchise Angry Birds went public in September, attracting investors who were keen to to grab a piece its stock and prompting one of Finland's hottest IPOs since Nokia's a decade ago.

Gabe Newell, the CEO of video game developer Valve, said in an interview with gaming news site Polygon this week that while he's optimistic about the immersive technology, he's «pretty comfortable with the idea that it will turn out to be a complete failure.»

We wrap the mechanics of video games around core lessons.

Some video game fans say that journalists and game developers are too close, and are calling into question the ethics of video game journalists.

John Roa recalls the lessons he learned as founder of a video game company back in 2002.

Vivendi's pursuit of video game publisher Ubisoft has crossed another threshold, and a hostile takeover battle is looking a lot more likely.

Since its debut in 2003, the venerable franchise has posted sales in excess of $ 11 billion and is one of the annual tentpoles of the video game industry.

But that club is still absent the true behemoths of the video game industry in Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

It's also a testament to how fast progress has come in the past few years of chip designs, especially for graphics processors, which used to be relegated to the domain of video game junkies.

Virtual reality has great promise outside of video games, of course, but that's where it's facing its biggest limitation.

In July 2011, Electronic Arts, the leading publisher of video games, bought the company for $ 750 million in cash and stock.

The Unity 5 Developer Course aims to teach people new to the industry the basics of video game design and leave students ready to develop their own games.

According to NPD, Nintendo is now by far the number one manufacturer and seller of video game accessories.

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo is upon us, which means the nerd news cycle of the next week will be dominated by a steady stream of video game information and hype, not to mention a decent share of child - like squealing as the latest alien - shooting, terrorist - killing, football - throwing, aristocrat - stabbing and Italian plumbering titles are announced.

The overall amounts of data being generated by gamers is staggering, and the next generation of video game design will feature the gamer as an unofficial co-creator.

Writing in the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia explained, «California has singled out the purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment — at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists and movie producers — and has given no persuasive reason why.»

Ninety - seven percent of American children ages 12 to 17 play an average of at least one hour of video games per day — games that wearables could render more visually and physically engaging.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

More and more schools have begun developing programs and degrees for students that wish to pursue a career in this industry, from degrees in the business of eSports to the design and development of video games themselves.

After nine months of speculation and obfuscation, Hideo Kojima, one of the video game industry's most respected developers, is finally, officially divorced from Konami.

The floodgates to China's gaming market have opened with the lift of a 14 - year ban on the manufacture and sale of video game consoles.

Back in the early days of video games, companies didn't give individual designers credit for their work — so they took to hiding their names in hard - to - reach corners of their code.

Still, the PC enthusiast segment, comprised mainly of video game players and amateur or semi-professional photographers and videographers, is a key target of AMD CEO Lisa Su's new strategy.

In 2006 it introduced CUDA, a parallel computing architecture that allowed researchers to run extremely complex exercises on thousands of GPUs, taking the chips out of the sole realm of video games and making them accessible for all types of computing.

Jeff Bezos plays games «here and there» but you wouldn't call him a gamer, says Kevin Lin, co-founder of video game streaming platform Twitch.

Advertising in the form of a video game is as old as video games themselves.

You've most likely experienced the enchanting nature of video games and their ability to get players addicted to virtual rewards.

An article on Thursday about threats against critics of the video game industry misstated, at one point, part of the name of a lobbying group for video game companies.

From playing various sports at the Olympic Games to beating other Nintendo characters senseless in Super Smash Bros., Mario has seen action in all kinds of video game genres.

The popularity of video games had collapsed just as quickly as it had risen throughout the 1970s.