Sentences with phrase «of the mainstream games»

Mobage has a new one and a number of mainstream games have been released, lets look at the best new apps.

At some point, our digital love interests, which used to be mainly provided by major developers and relegated to subplots, became the focus of mainstream games.

At least, from what I've played, that seems like a higher - than - usual percentage of mainstream games featuring queer women front and center.

It's about integrity — the quality which most of the mainstream games media is sorely lacking.

With # 3 I could go out and buy a commodore 64 magazine and get some demos of mainstream games and get anywhere from 3 - 10 full indie games.

Perhaps my examples are simply a slate of mainstream games designed to appeal to average players, children among them, who need or expect constant instruction.

Independent developers can create amazing worlds and intriguing stories, but without the graphics capabilities of mainstream games.

My broad feeling on this though is Substance and Heart - a lot of mainstream games today lack emotion, fun, and spirit in a way that older games just nailed.

Well, this new site, which is edited for us by Matt Burris, continues something we at Think Services have been doing over the past few months and years - supplementing our industry - leading coverage of the mainstream game business, as showcased with products like Gamasutra.com, Game Developer magazine, and Game Developers Conference, with important emerging and vital submarkets such as Apple's touch - based handheld.

This fear often leads to hard - core game conventions, like restrictive save systems and unlockable content, that only put roadblocks in the way of the mainstream gamer who is just looking to have a good time.»)

It was the violent nihilism and entitled masculinity of mainstream games given form and sent back against itself, a reminder of creative responsibilities and the consequences of failing them.

There's a clear reason for this model: the costs of mainstream game development are rising faster than potential revenue.

Over the next four days, the interactive entertainment industry will descend on the Los Angeles convention centre for a mammoth Bacchanalian celebration of mainstream games culture.

Every year, the eyes of the mainstream games industry turn wearily to US cable channel Spike TV and its rambunctious awards ceremony, which this year has been renamed VGX rather than VGA, because that is more «next generation» or something like that.

Not exact matches

«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.

Intended as a cute way to promote the mainstream adoption of Ethereum — a digital and decentralized ledger which records the game's smart contracts — CryptoKitties caught on with an irrational vengeance.

Much of the problem stems from the fact that video games still aren't taken seriously by the mainstream media.

Ironically, if more of the supposedly objective mainstream press reviewed video games, chances are good the overall scores would be lower.

By giving Gears of War 3 such a high average score, reviewers are setting the bar low for what a great game should be and are doing a disservice to an industry that is struggling to be taken seriously by the mainstream.

Bulky and unfashionable headsets that require beefy computers to operate are just a few of the reasons why mainstream consumers haven't gravitated to the technology, although some hardcore gamers and enthusiasts still find them compelling.

Indeed, of the 55 reviews listed for the game so far, only two are from mainstream newspapers.

I have no doubts that the rest of the mainstream, including the CBC, will some day take games as seriously as they do TV, movies or technology.

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 specialize in tabletop games, video games, comic books, cosplay, all the sort of emerging things that really weren't anything when I first started in this business, but now they've become so popular in mainstream culture.

As Fortune has reported, League of Legends has seen its user base increase rapidly as more and more gamers flock to the growing eSports market, which is expected to approach half a billion dollars in global revenue this year alone as tournaments continue to move into the mainstream.

Even if you don't follow mainstream sports like football or baseball, you've probably seen highlight clips from the big games in your Twitter or Facebook feeds, in the form of short animated GIFs of a crucial play.

For example, if one of your key differentiators is your game - changing app, emphasize your break from the mainstream with an edgier brand personality.

«We are excited to be part of the first eSports [decentralised app](dapp) on Ethereum and believe the first token trading will ensure the long - term trading sustainability of the FirstBlood ecosystem... Dapps like FirstBlood will be the game - changers, encouraging more mainstream consumer engagement with Ethereum and more developers to create dapps on the platform.»

Fought off a game Pitt team in a 45 - 35 shootout all your friends who are Big East fans will tout as «just the kind of football no one gives the Big East any credit for in the mainstream media.»

While mainstream football fans have all but given up on the All - Star exhibition, sports bettors have been taking advantage of the lack of defense the game provides over the past nine seasons.

You constantly hear the mainstream media discuss the importance of home games, but sportsbooks already shade their lines (typically 2 - 3 points) to account for this.

Below is a selection of match reports from the mainstream media that will give you an idea of how things panned out if you were unable to watch the game.

Clue — the murder mystery game where you play to find out that Professor Plum committed the murder with a lead pipe in the conservatory — is already one of the best mainstream board games ever created, and now, according to CNet, it's getting a charming new edition starring the Golden Girls.

The top - left quadrant (arbitration and oversight) contains forms of participation which accept the «elite» issue agenda and rules of the game, but not necessarily the mainstream interpretation.

But that's been addressed partly by the explosive growth of computer - based role - playing games, which are popular with both sexes and seen as acceptable mainstream fun by people who reject board games as too nerdish.

Mainstream games publisher Ubisoft says it wants to recreate the social interactions of DayZ in its forthcoming online FPS Tom Clancy's The Division.

And unlike most mainstream games — such as the blockbuster Grand Theft Auto series — DayZ is so open - ended that players are forced to deal with the consequences of their choices.

These findings, published recently by the high - impact journal Nanoscale («Tessellated gold nanostructures from Au144 (SCH2CH2Ph) 60 molecular precursors and their use in organic solar cell enhancement»), represent a game - changing innovation that holds the potential to take solar power mainstream and dramatically decrease the world's dependence on traditional, resource - based sources of energy, says Giovanni Fanchini from Western's Faculty of Science.

«Unlike mainstream fitness apps, the focus of BYFWM is to motivate the player to start and maintain a workout routine through a story - driven game that casts them in the middle of a Japanese school romance,» the website proclaims.

Slick Rick Inspired, «Best Friend» and «I Love the Game» are fun, light, airy tunes that shows off Troy's playful side and could easily be Troy's 2016 versions of 2015's the single «Your Style,» which brought Troy Ave into the mainstream consciousness.

«I believe geekdom has become mainstream,» he said, «because of an entire generation that's been fed fantasy storytelling by way of video games.

The 20 personality types are: Artist, Bar Game Buff, Cultured Urbanite, Curious George, Eternal Optimist, Family First, Fast and Furious, Happy - Go - Lucky, Health Buff, Intellectual, Live Event Fan, Mainly Mainstream, Pinteresters, Romantic, Salt of the Earth, Social Butterfly, Sports Fanatic, Weekend Warrior, Well - Rounded, and Outdoor Adventurer.

With the growing mainstream popularity of comic book movies, conventions, video game culture, and other mediums once considered niche and nerdy, the time is ripe for geek - centric businesses to thrive.

While people have been finding love online since the earliest days of the internet, through newsgroups, chat rooms, games and other online communities, the meteoric development of the commercial dating industry has brought millions of paying users and mainstream exposure to the activity.

I enjoy off - the - wall games that most of the mainstream seems to pass by, but this truly is a gem.

While Grand Theft Auto has grown over a decade into becoming the quintessential mainstream gaming franchise with a vast array of games across many platforms, Red Dead isn't as well known among non-gamer circles.

And it's not a bad number, considering games such as these can be considered more niche instead of mainstream.

The day that the mainstream media (well, Nickelodeon) would recognize Paper Mario: Color Splash as the triple - A Game of the Year contender that it really is.

Bayonetta 2 is one of the best action games of all - time, and while we'd love to think this Switch version will finally grant it the mainstream success it deserves we're not holding out much hope.

We try to make sure that whether you love indie games or mainstream games, you will be taken care of.