Sentences with phrase «of game publishers»

The company may also announce more partners — although we already know some of the game publishers and phone makers involved.

That generous tax policy has attracted a growing number of game publishers, most recently THQ, which is shutting down numerous triple - A studios across the globe in favour of a new mega-studio in Montreal.

Thanks to the digital era of video gaming, we've seen a lot of game publishers re-release a ton of classic arcade games.

But that's not exactly music to the ears of game publishers who deem every second - hand copy of their game sold as missed monies.

Now that I have your attention with that, dare I say it, frankly inflammatory title, I'd like to introduce you to the world of game publishers.

This allowed the PR departments of the game publishers to stage manage coverage in a number of ways they really shouldn't have, either by providing game reviewers with freebies to curry favour or by threatening to pull advertising and deny review copies if they didn't toe the line.

The love of the game The publishers of Sports Illustrated continue to dazzle at holiday time with their beautiful, oversized treatments on major sports, and The Golf Book: A Celebration of the Ancient Game is no exception.

Marriage of game publisher and toymaker paying off to the tune of 24.2 billion yen; game division sells 23.4 million units worldwide.

Capcom's Resident Evil franchise is one of the game publisher's biggest assets, though it is well known that the series has seen better days.

f you were as heartbroken as we were about the demise of the Lucas Arts game studio a few weeks ago, then you will be pleased to hear that the Star Wars game legacy has been put in the capable hands of game publisher EA.

The EWC Code mirrors many of the same requirements that ARC requires of game publisher websites, expanding the reach of the video game industry's commitment to responsible marketing practices.

As Executive Producer at an internal studio of games publisher Activision, she worked on many franchises such as Zork, Star Trek and Heavy Gear.

A: It wasn't originally in the plans, it was awhile ago I don't really remember when this was during the Alpha testing of the game the publisher looked at our Alpha build and said the we need to put some combat in this game, and that's why it's there.

Interestingly, these games are coming over as part of game publisher Hamster's «Arcade Archives» banner, under which it also publishes arcade games from other publishers on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows 10.

Not exact matches

With the sixth season of Game of Thrones set to air in April, Martin's publishers wanted the latest installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series to be on shelves by March.

The publisher of popular video games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft — two games in which players mow

The solution in both e-books and video games therefore seems obvious: publishers should work with the retailers to find a solution in which they get a cut of the resale.

It's no secret that game publishers hate the used market, estimated at about $ 2 billion in the U.S. alone, because they don't get a penny of it.

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.

Publishers would likely hate such a move for the same reason that video game makers do — they wouldn't get a cut of it.

When it came time to debut Kyrie Irving's latest Nike sneaker, Kyrie 2, the athletic apparel company turned to video game publisher 2K, a division of Take - Two Interactive, and Amazon - owned livestreaming service Twitch, to connect directly with gamers.

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.

With hundreds of publishers and developers showing off thousands of games, it's a little odd to declare that anyone «won» E3, but the gaming press is doing just that.

Japanese company Nintendo (ntdoy) owns a large stake in the game's publisher, The Pokemon Company, and has seen its stock price surge after the runaway success of Pokemon Go.

Years ago, to get a game into your living room, a developer would have to jump through any number of industry hoops, whether finding distribution through a major publisher or navigating the approval labyrinth of the various console gatekeepers.

This may be especially vital for Canada, which has thousands upon thousands of game makers, but few big publishers.

A bus collected the Canadian entrepreneurs and shuttled them through the Valley, dropping off a handful at Cisco, a handful at Microsoft, and a handful at the Redwood City campus of Electronic Arts, the world's largest video game publisher.

Video - game publisher Electronic Arts's revenue forecast for the key holiday - shopping quarter was slightly below analysts» estimates, amid expectations of heavy competition from other games releasing around the same time.

Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard reported a 50.4 % surge in quarterly revenue on Thursday, propelled by the popularity of the newly - launched Overwatch game and the boost from the acquisition of Candy Crush maker King Digital.

It usually only happens when the publisher is confident of the game's quality and hopeful that advance reviews will help build buzz and therefore sales.

The publisher will also go back to the top handful of its existing titles, including Kardashian's game and even older games like Deer Hunter, to bolster those same kinds of features.

With the launch of Nintendo Switch, the game maker is fighting for the attention of gamers, and to regain favor with third - party publishers.

It's so popular, in fact, that video game industry analysts are predicting a slew of copycatting from the biggest game publishers in the world.

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

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.

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

Further to that, Microsoft is also inserting a backdoor of sorts for publishers, who will be able to use its Azure cloud computing services to share game resources.

The battle for the living room continues to heat up with the entrance of successful video game retailer, publisher and developer Valve Corporation and its free digital distribution platform, Steam.

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

Now solo as president of social media games publisher Sava Transmedia, he says income statements he's seen indicate about a 30 % increase in gross margin, although he cautions that advertising and customer acquisition costs (e.g. discounts, incentives, etc.) can still bring that down to something closer to parity with physical distribution.

It's currently one of the most popular games from Valve, the publisher that organized last night's event, and one of the most popular competitive e-sports games worldwide.

A fledgling publisher probably can not compete with the likes of Google and Facebook, but there are still some ways it's possible to beat these online giants at their own game.

Apple launched the iPhone and completely changed the world of mobile games, allowing developers to circumvent both publishers and wireless carriers in releasing their products.

As long as publishers are charging $ 70 for games, the first - sale doctrine — where buyers can recoup some of their hefty initial outlay through resale — will continue.

So John Riccitiello is stepping down as CEO of Electronic Arts, the biggest game publisher in the world.

When videogame publisher Activision announced its merger with Vivendi Games in late 2007, analysts predicted that Vivendi's Blizzard unit, maker of the hugely popular Internet - based fantasy game World of Warcraft, would help Activision migrate to the online world.

Rather than charging consumers $ 70 a pop as they do now, publishers would have more flexibility if they were getting a cut of resold games, which they don't now.

Traditional publishers will even get in on the game, only publishing an author who commits to buying a certain number of their own books.

There's an attractive menu screen that lets you sort the games by title, release date, publisher, and a few other ways, although with only 21 games in the menu it's not like you're going to have trouble finding any of them.

Tencent controls a large part of the mobile games value chain and can also add an esports ecosystem around its Clash Royale title that no other publisher can.