Sentences with phrase «of games devices»

There was more space on the memory of the game devices, budgets increased and it became possible to make a game with a story.

Not exact matches

The San Francisco company has been ramping up its efforts in the world of live streaming, kicking off a deal in September with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday night games to Twitter users via the web, mobile apps and streaming devices like the Apple TV.

Indeed, it's «a constant game of risk management,» says founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, who also worked at Google but left in 2010 to launch Drawbridge, a company that builds technology to connect users» screens and devices without relying on their personal security information.

Nintendo will stop making its NES Classic Edition console, a retro gaming device introduced in November that reprised older games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.

Beyond the convenience of opening up high - quality gaming to any device, 5G could also help other problems in the video game world.

For Sony and Xbox - maker Microsoft, Hudak said, mobility might be a factor taken into consideration for their consoles «if 5G makes streaming their games viable» and allows them to reduce the physical size of devices.

The game remains installed on untold numbers of iOS devices — and each time consumers open the app, Chipotle tugs at their heartstrings and appeals to their stomachs.

Speaking of devices, there are some big ones missing like Apple TV, Roku and Chromecast, plus the newer game consoles.

The Xbox 360 displaced both Nintendo and Sony to lead the video game industry in 2011, in large part because of its novel Kinect motion - sensing controller, which overtook the iPad to become the fastest - selling electronic device ever and has shipped 18 million units to date.

It's just my interpretation of the market, but it seems like there has been a shift in development resources away from smart devices, which is a very crowded space right now, to the types of e-shops where discoverability is less of an issue and we can work together to make games like Shovel Knight and one of my favourites Guacamelee!

Just two months later, perhaps not surprisingly, Boatman left EA to become senior vice-president of mobile for Zynga, which develops simple, free games such as Farmville for Facebook and mobile devices.

Torrone thinks you could spend thousands of dollars on parts and build a device less powerful than Kinect, and suggests that Microsoft almost certainly subsidizes the $ 149 cost of the unit, hoping to profit via game sales.

After reaching a remarkable level of versimilitude, console video games are now losing ground to simply rendered, cheaply made games played on wireless devices.

But Greven, a former Chubb Insurance Group IT executive, believed that the rapidly changing communications technology environment, the near ubiquity of mobile devices and the growing use of computers in doctors» offices, added up to a game - changing set of conditions.

Whether or not Mickey is a gamer, Disney Research in Pittsburgh is developing a new technology called Aireal that would enable users of hands free, motion - controlled devices such as the Microsoft Kinect or Leap Motion to actually feel the virtual objects they're manipulating.

Hopes have been high in the game industry that the arrival of the three consoles will revitalize the sector, which has lagged from competition from smartphones and other mobile devices, wooing users with their own games, as well as social networking and other pastimes.

Wednesday's long - awaited announcement that they are entering the tablet game with their $ 199 Amazon Kindle Fire was an appropriate follow - up to news from earlier in the month that the world's largest Internet store (with revenue of $ 34 billion in 2010) was testing a major redesign of their website, in short optimizing the shopping experience for tablet devices.

The iPad 2, being a second - generation device, is obviously ahead of the curve and has all of the best apps, including a host of great games.

We think we'll see a similar effect with Super Mario Run, and especially as we continue to develop Mario games for our own platforms that have more robust action and those sorts of elements, we think those will be appealing to the audience playing Super Mario Run on mobile devices.

In the spring of 2013, Cox, a former ad agency designer who had segued into video - game design, launched a crowd - sourcing campaign to see if he could drum up orders for an intriguing device he'd invented: a 3D photo scanner.

With smart devices now, they find themselves in the pockets of people who don't normally play video games, and it's a very simple interface.

Imagine a class of students working with different devices: could be a desktop, a game console, a tablet, a phone.

«With its devices, Apple revolutionizes the way hundreds of millions enjoy high - quality games, enabling people to play in an intuitive and accessible way» says Jean - Michel Detoc, head of Ubisoft's mobile.

Apple's expertise and experience, coupled with an aggressive video game strategy for the device, will create all sorts of interesting new opportunities for us.»

Some of the companies who introduced personal fitness tech devices will share the same challenges as those in the wearable tech game.

It would also line up perfectly with Microsoft's bigger - picture «play anywhere» strategy, which enables Xbox games to be played on a variety of devices (not just Xbox game consoles).

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.

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

Relying only on TiVo would compromise Buchsbaum's desire «to store for posterity» his football footage; the device has yet to be invented that can electronically archive 20 years of football games.

Video games ironically emerged in the 1960s as a consumer - friendly demonstration of what computers could do, with consoles in the 1970s finally packing processing power into a couldn't - be-simpler device.

Google's YouTube is aiming for a bigger part of the $ 70 billion annual TV ad budget, as more viewers turn toward watching YouTube on television screens through devices like digital media players, Google Chromecast, and video game consoles.

Says Piers Harding - Rolls, head of games at U.K. - based IHS Screen Digest, in an e-mail, «I expect to see increasing downloads over this generation and on to the next generation of devices as it is in the interest of console manufacturers to act as a retailer.»

Many of the games require the Move controllers, which are devices I'd hoped to never see again after the motion gaming craze died down a few years ago.

A listing of all companies by SIC codes reveals, for example, how many businesses are engaged in hunting, trapping, and game propagation (295, and all but one employs fewer than 500 people); coin - operated amusement devices (4,513, and all but 28 are small companies); and hundreds of other subindustries and sub-subindustries.

Ever since the late Steve Jobs pulled an iPod out of his jeans pocket back in 2001, proclaiming a «quantum leap» in portable music, it's been assumed Apple's success flowed directly from its ability to deliver novel, game - changing devices and services.

As a result, there are only two camps who may be interested in taking advantage of GameStop's Black Friday deal: those who have a tangible interest in video games but never actually got around to buying a console, or those who are uninterested in gaming but who will use the Xbox 360 to run Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and Microsoft's own «movies and TV» service (morphing the device into something of a free alternative to a Roku or other streaming gadget).

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

The benefits to end users are also obvious — not only will documents look the same regardless of device, so too will games and other content.

It's a simple platformer that can be played for a few minutes at a time, yet its level creator also utilizes the device's various touch inputs in useful ways, which is more than can be said for a lot of Vita games.

Running a 2.5 GHz quad - core processor, I found this device plenty fast for games and productivity, with no obvious differences from other premium Androids of this generation.

Zynga, once one of Silicon Valley's fastest - growing companies, suffered a dramatic reversal of fortunes in 2012 as gamers switched from Facebook - based games to those on mobile devices.

There's no mention of the words «Classic Edition» or any real details about the device, but the shape and layout is a very distinctive one for game fans.

Despite all of the good news, there was one bit of bad news for the mobile industry in 2015: worldwide game playing fell 1 percent on mobile devices compared to 2014.

Samsung has jumped wholeheartedly into the smart home game, not only building a hub, but also a range of sensors and trackers for your home, too, and all of those devices work together pretty well.

Users can have their own personal phone for silly games and photos of their kids, while the employer can have them carrying a productivity device at the same.

The hints about a Game Boy device come three months after reports Nintendo could be planning a «Classic Edition» of the N64 console for next year.

And Emotiv has to do it while taming persistent hiccups in the system, herding video - game producers into tailoring games to the device, and trying to halt a skidding launch date before competitors — yes, there are other companies making mind - reading devices — pick off pieces of the market.

But for old - time gamers, it's been one of the go - to devices for reliving classic games.

The Japanese game maker still dominates the portable video game market, thanks to its 3DS family of handheld devices.

Nintendo is going to use these mobile games to connect with its large global fan base, which currently plays games across Wii U and a variety of portable Nintendo DS devices.