Sentences with phrase «of entertainment forms»

The reality is that even dedicated readers find the logic of buying a tablet that features any number of entertainment forms, email and web access more compelling than a dedicated ereader.

It seems strange, then, that the most technological of all entertainment forms, video games, has almost no criticism to its name.

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Then there's the deluge of emails you feel guilty for not reading and responding to quickly, various forms of entertainment available and human nature itself, which tempts us to make irresponsible decisions and skews our priorities.

It seems the market is concerned about the prospects for any form of TV - style entertainment, digital or otherwise, as the landscape underneath the industry continues to shift.

«Now that gaming is a mainstream form of entertainment, the games market follows the dynamic of the population at large, which is aging,» Van Dreunen says.

There's plenty of other forms of entertainment out there so I thank the smartphone and tablet for really demystifying gaming and bringing more people into our wheelhouse.

This latest trailer comes just a couple weeks after the 10th anniversary of GTA: III, thought by many to be a watershed moment where video games began to be seen as a serious form of adult entertainment that could also rake in millions of dollars.

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.

According to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, the games industry contributes $ 1.7 billion a year to our economy in the form of jobs and the expenditures they make possible.

So how has IMSA managed grow during a period when other sports — and many other forms of entertainment — have suffered dips in viewership and attendance?

In June 2008, he had abruptly resigned as chairman of entertainment giant Live Nation and CEO of its recently formed Live Nation Artists division.

«Ten years ago, internet auctions were a form of online entertainment,» the authors conclude.

But Snapchat recently announced that it will be integrating payments through a partnership with Square, which could turn the app into something larger than just a fun, silly form of entertainment for teenagers.

But this notion that mobile devices are now the market exemplar for every other form of entertainment misunderstands the distinctions between what's possible or desirable in these yet disparate ways of thinking about interactive entertainment.

Many people actually choose games as their primary form of entertainment and are either cord - cutters or cord - nevers.

Or worse, companies and brands that have not yet grasped the difference between an advertisement in video form, and a video that provides some sort of real value — whether that be entertainment, knowledge, etc..

It's an easy and cheap form of entertainment.

Virtual reality video games, movies, and other forms of entertainment are in short supply.

It would be split into two distinct departments: BuzzFeed News and a newly formed BuzzFeed Entertainment Group — essentially giving the heads of each (Ben Smith in New York and Ze Frank in Los Angeles, respectively) additional authority and autonomy.

The nascent form of entertainment known as virtual reality is still figuring out its business model and its creative place.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

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It's one of a number of virtual reality projects in the music industry, which wants to stake its claim in a growing form of entertainment that could become an avenue to additional revenue and a new approach for musicians in connecting with fans.

He noted that — since spending on hockey generally comes out of people's disposable income — money not spent hockey games would be likely spent on other forms of entertainment.

CreativeD is an entertainment software company that recently launched Decksi, a next - generation distribution solution that transforms content into a new form of social currency.

«Conan's always been a fearless performer, and now, at the top of his form, I'm excited he's taking a gutsy step forward with us into new arenas,» said Kevin Reilly, president of TBS and TNT and chief creative officer of Turner Entertainment.

So, when your beliefs curtail your physical activity and nix most forms of non-food entertainment, what do you do?

There is literally not one form of digital communication or entertainment that the NSA won't use to look at your private information: Even the mobile game Angry Birds is subject to the watchful eye of Big Brother.

That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

Over the last decade political spin and aggressive commentary have become a major form of mass entertainment.

In truth, the factors that motivated the successes of these horror - subgenre entries into the marketplace could be applied to another dominant form of visual entertainment focused on suspense, moodiness, thinly veiled sexual references, and the darkest side of human nature; I'm speaking, of course, of the soap opera.

«A Prairie Home Companion» was our primary form of entertainment on Sunday afternoons.

Greed has been accepted at all levels of society and the portrayal of cruelty is considered an acceptable form of entertainment.

The interviewer might have thought twice before incuding women in a list of forms of entertainment.

Could you really find enjoyment in such a mainstream form of entertainment when you lost all respect for Radiohead after OK Computer?

We live in an era in which fantasies of death and destruction are commonplace in mainstream forms of entertainment.

In its basic form, perception is not of universals but of concrete singular entities, and it is not a bare, passive entertainment but an active response.

Whilst the ad (body building worship) on the right, is promoting entertainment within the church, This is a form of godlyness, but the power of it, is renounced.

Those unaware of the history of minstrelsy may miss the racially charged historical reference stitched into those bars: It's a callback to a racist and dehumanizing form of American entertainment from the 19th century that depicted black people as thick - headed buffoons who tap - danced for the enjoyment of white audiences.

He may have been the first to recognize that a centralized system of the legends, songs, stories, (what we call entertainment, as well what we call information) forms a compelling mythology reaching every home and confers power that kings, emperors, and popes could only dream about.

Because it was a form of entertainment and instruction.

The immediate present is the experiential entertainment of these realized characters, plus entertainment of the potential forms of immediate concrescence and the more or less proximate future.

The purpose of the entertainment, information and educational material presented is initially to form individuals into audiences which are then sold to advertisers for such training.

I'm at work and CNN is one of the few sites that is not blocked so this is my main form of entertainment from 9 to 5.

Too often these requirements are not met and under the guise of worship they become forms of lively entertainment, perhaps appropriate elsewhere but hardly so in the sanctuary of a church.

• The vulgarization of popular culture and entertainment, which has so deeply wounded our politics that they've become another form of reality TV, producing a spectacle that should shame us into a collective examination of our consciences as consumers.

But it was not simply an intellectual exercise, far less a form of entertainment, for ancient man knew himself to be involved in the processes of life and divine encounter which he saw all around him.

For pure entertainment sake, I also enjoyed «Forms of Things Unknown.»

Today, What Pet Should I Get, which features some of the same characters as One Fish, Two Fish, is finally being sold to the public so that you can take a nostalgic trip back to the time when funny ryhmes and colorful illustrations were the optimal form of entertainment.

Stereotypeing is part of all forms of entertainment... even god awful romantic comedies.