Sentences with phrase «of entertainment games»

These types of entertainment games were not that sensible when the concept was first of all being experimented with.

Each of our gambling games has a lot of fun, with all kinds of entertainment games.

Not exact matches

The 25 - person company now has three of its own games under development, including Below, an adventure game for the Xbox One that was highlighted during Microsoft's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this summer.

If you're like me and grew up playing Nintendo game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube, you likely have fond memories of characters like Chun - Li and Ken from the «Street Fighter» franchise.

When Julie Uhrman was vice president of digital distribution at IGN Entertainment, the video game news site, she came to the realization that something was seriously wrong with the console industry.

«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.

And since we're talking about video games, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada has released a few new snippets of data just in time for E3.

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.

I'm in Los Angeles this week for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is one of the biggest video game shows in the world.

At the Vita's launch party in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, I chatted with Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, about the Vita, PlayStation and game trends in general.

The console was a miniature version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System and bundled 22 of the original game console's titles.

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.

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.

A group of investors has decided that more than 50 million users can't be wrong, and is betting that Rovio Mobile Ltd., the game's Finnish developer, will be able to leverage its popularity into a full - scale entertainment brand.

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.

Blizzard Entertainment, one half of giant gaming company Activision Blizzard, is creating an ambitious new eSports league for its «Overwatch» shooter game, The Verge reports.

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Last year, Nintendo (NTDOY) premiered the NES Classic Edition, a miniature version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System that included classic games from the company's original video game console from the 1980s.

Apostolopoulos's events company, Triple Sports and Entertainment, organized an exhibition game in August 2010 between Italy's AC Milan and Greek club Panathinaikos that drew a crowd of 30,000.

Sony announced the launch date during the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, where it showcased a slew of new VR video games, including ones for the Star Wars and Batman franchises.

Host Charlie Rose always invites guests from a variety of fields, from politics and education to entertainment and health care, who are at the top of their game.

Video game maker Activision Blizzard announced on Monday plans buy «Candy Crush Saga» creator King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion, Reuters reported, as the heavyweight of console and PC gaming makes a major push into the faster - growing mobile market.

On Monday, King Digital Entertainment, the maker of runaway hit game Candy Crush Saga, filed for an initial public offering in the U.S.

Nintendo's hit Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) Classic Edition comes with a bunch of, well, classic games such as «Super Mario World» and «Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past» preinstalled.

Few adults get to play video games at the office, but if you're Jade Raymond, managing director of Ubisoft Entertainment SA's Toronto office, you can expect a lot of time in front of a screen.

The head of Microsoft's interactive entertainment division seems right at home onstage in front of a large audience of journalists and video - game developers at the Galen Center arena in Los Angeles, where thousands of insiders are gathered for the annual Electronic Entertainmententertainment division seems right at home onstage in front of a large audience of journalists and video - game developers at the Galen Center arena in Los Angeles, where thousands of insiders are gathered for the annual Electronic EntertainmentEntertainment Expo, or E3.

Maybe some freelancers will get tossed a couple bucks for a story or two, but E3 and video games in general are a far cry from being taken as seriously as other areas of technology and entertainment.

Demonstrating how much SXSW has become a mainstream entertainment industry event, HBO will also have some heavy duty merchandising ploys, such as a tasting for its new line of Game of Thrones - themed wines.

«We are sincerely grateful that gamers across the globe have continued to choose PS4 as the best place to play since launch two years ago,» said Andrew House, president and global CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. «Thanks to the support of our partners, PS4 continues to be the premier platform for game and interactive entertainment innovEntertainment Inc. «Thanks to the support of our partners, PS4 continues to be the premier platform for game and interactive entertainment innoventertainment innovation.»

«Fantasy sports is a game of skill and therefore legal under New York state law, yet the New York state government is now threatening to dictate what type of entertainment sports fans can enjoy.

Watching video of our favorite sports team or TV show, reading our favorite newspaper, or playing our favorite game are not just entertainment or information but a shared experience and opportunity to bring together people who care about the same things.

The new console, a hybrid of a home entertainment device and a portable game system, is straight out of the company's playbook: Look for ways to present video games that are vastly different from the competition.

For now, workplace applications for VR tend to be rather prosaic — think virtual conferencing — and much of the effort to create compelling content is focused on games and entertainment.

It was reported two weeks ago that Sony Pictures Entertainment will play ball with video game publisher / developer Ubisoft — appeasing what others have called unreasonable demands — in order to make a movie out of the company's massively successful, Montreal - developed franchise, Assassin's Creed.

With the advent of the smartphone came a boon for the gaming industry, and new niches within the indie - gaming scene have created a whole new lens through which games can be viewed; we are more aware than ever that games can teach us or exist as experiential art in addition to the entertainment they provide.

Microsoft's head of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick, has left the software company to take the top job at social games maker Zynga, leaving his former division potentially vulnerable in the months before a major new product launch.

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

Despite the disproportionate number of games, entertainment apps (think Netflix, HBO GO, etc.) account for 28 of the top 50 most downloaded apps.

At last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, I asked Dennis Durkin, chief operating and finance officer for Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, if the vertically integrated approach with the video game console could be applied to other parts ofEntertainment Expo, I asked Dennis Durkin, chief operating and finance officer for Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, if the vertically integrated approach with the video game console could be applied to other parts ofentertainment business, if the vertically integrated approach with the video game console could be applied to other parts of the company.

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.

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

«He is one of the most creative talents in the history of games,» said Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SNE) in a video announcing the partnership.

The Nintendo Entertainment System, unarguably one of the most iconic game consoles of all time, is relaunching this fall, the game company announced on Thursday.

ESL works with eSports game companies like Riot Games (League of Legends), Blizzard Entertainment (StarCraft II), Valve (Dota 2 and Counter-Strike Global Offensive) and Hi - Rez Studios (SMITE).

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

Away from the screen, Jacob indicated that Cineplex will keep concentrating on some of its other entertainment offerings, including the Rec Rooms, restaurants and bars outfitted with arcades and other interactive games.

The company also got some major profile from Microsoft at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, with another of its games — Below — being announced for the Xbox One.

According to Piper Jaffray research analyst Travis Jakel, adult entertainment will be the number three driver of all virtual reality content behind games and movies, and the porn virtual reality business will grow into a $ 1 billion industry by 2020.

According to 2011 study done by the Entertainment Software Association, 72 % of American households play computer or video games and the average age of those players is 37.