Sentences with phrase «on time in the game»

Vidal did not settle on time in the game.

Not exact matches

Trying to keep everyone in the loop on everything is a game for losers and a major time suck.

On Thursday, Nintendo announced that the Switch had become the fastest selling home video game system of all time in the U.S., selling over 4.8 million units in 10 months.

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

The hybrid toy - video game franchise raced past $ 2 billion in sales in a record 27 months at retail and is on the list of top 20 game franchises of all time.

Most gamers, when they plop down on the couch for a play session, expect to devote some time to their game and to be immersed in it.

Some of the highlights on the plastic bucket's bucket list were to bask in the bright lights of Times Square, chill to jazz music in New Orleans, be sleepless in Seattle and do the wave at a sports game.

A little inspiration goes a long way, so the next time you are feeling unmotivated to take action in your business, pull out your favorite quotes, or better yet post them on the wall in your home or office, and get yourself back in the game quicker.

But TV ratings and digital broadcasts are measured in totally different ways, and when Next Level Media broke the numbers apart, it concluded that at least four times as many people watched an NBA Finals game on average as tuned in for League of Legends finals.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

Having something you can be highly interested in, something you can deliberately practice and readily get feedback on, something where you hope that you can succeed, are all important The key is, of course, giving yourself time to practice and learn and stay in the game.

But the huge time difference between the U.S. and China means that the start times for most NFL games fall in the middle of the night in China, which makes the option of either streaming games live or on - demand that much more appetizing for Chinese fans.

Many of these tools, apps and games are teaching children how to code through dragging code onto a screen - great to teach fundamentals and basic of coding, but we wanted to create a language that was hands - on, where kids are actually typing code and seeing results in real time.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

For the time being, the Super Bowl retains a kind of magical hold on sports fans, who want to watch the game in a social setting with family and friends.

I have been in the personal branding game for a long time, and for an audience that prides itself on making smart long - term investments, it confuses me why so few investors and venture capitalists see the value in building some element of thought leadership for themselves.

Marketing used to be an educated guessing game based on experience and instinct, but advances in tools and technology now empower us to profile and predict behaviors about prospects in real time.

TOKYO — Sony's next - generation video game machine PlayStation 4 won't go on sale in Japan until next year, meaning that it won't be on time for the key year - end holiday or New Year's shopping season.

At the same time, investors, analysts and consulting firms have engaged in an elaborate guessing game about which targets might be on the radar of Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos now that the king of US ecommerce has shown himself interested in bricks and mortar stores.

His résumé is enough to justify it: two - time MVP, first unanimous MVP, scoring champion, NBA champion, best player on a team that won more regular season games than any team in NBA history.

Systrom had developed a few concepts in his spare time, but in late 2009, he concentrated his attention on one: An iPhone app that would combine elements of Foursquare with elements of Mafia Wars, a popular game developed by Zynga.

Vendors claim that gamification can lead to a 100 to 150 percent pickup in engagement metrics including unique views, page views, community activities and time on site, according to M2 Research, and 63 percent of American adults agree that making everyday activities more like a game would make them more fun and rewarding, JW Intelligence reports.

A two - time Defensive Player of the Year who's led the league in blocks four years in a row, Griner is now leading the league in scoring, averaging 22 points per game on 57 % shooting while once again leading the league in blocks per game.

While even his critics, who launched the #NotNolan hashtag on Twitter, note that Bushnell played a huge role in starting the video game industry, they feel the timing is wrong to honor him, given the corporate culture he encouraged and the importance of the #MeToo movement over the past year.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

And Nintendo said in its earnings release it's planning to «introduce new [mobile] game applications while also focusing on continued operations for our released applications so that consumers can enjoy playing them for a long time.»

It's not the first time a late, broken play has changed the outcome of bets and fantasy matchups across the country — earlier in the season the Chiefs had a similar play on «Monday Night Football» against the Redskins, leaving bettors elated or furious depending on which side of the game they were on.

If it stumbles in 2018 and beyond in delivering big games on time, that could leave it relying on legacy titles to drive demand during holiday seasons.

Rapidly press the Autopilot button four times in a row, and the street on your display monitor will turn from standard pavement into Rainbow Road from the beloved video game Mario Kart.

And it could convert some pirates to paying subscribers — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes admitted on an earnings call last year that «Game of Thrones» is the most pirated show in the world, which he said was «better than an Emmy» for driving interest in the network.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

«If you take time to recharge and pay attention to fitness and your diet, for example, after work or on weekends, you'll set the stage for great life habits that put you at the top of your game at the office,» says Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.»

That's not at all a concern for me since I can't remember the last time I've gone back to play a game from a previous generation, but it is going to make a lot of people frothing mad, which is ironic given that these are the same people who have actually held on to older games and not traded them in.

Players with at least 60 games are ranked in these categories: salary (20 %), points (15 %), time on ice (15 %) and plus / minus (50 %).

This weekend, Uber may also find it picked a particularly good time to offer a getaway trip, as Romania's soccer team is playing Albania on Sunday in its third game of the UEFA Euro 2016 championship, a match that will be a huge spectating event across the country.

You go through those times when someone on your team misses the game - winning shot and is crying in the locker room,» he says.

In a stroke of good timing, gaming company Zynga announced on Saturday that it is now testing out Bitcoin as a payment option for virtual - good purchases in its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and otherIn a stroke of good timing, gaming company Zynga announced on Saturday that it is now testing out Bitcoin as a payment option for virtual - good purchases in its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and otherin its «Ville» games — FarmVille and FarmVille 2, CityVille, CastleVille and others.

If the bird clears the wall without smashing into it, you get to make it take a virtual crap on the candidate — releasing more droppings, in the form of poop emoticons, each time as you advance to the next level of the game.

Press the Reset button on the console, and you'll jump back to the menu and can save your place in any game, at any time.

With two games left in the season and very little on the line for Tampa Bay, this Sunday is a great opportunity for Winston to make up for lost time.

In a 2010 Times interview, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, says that his perfect day would involve taking his dogs to the beach, surfing on the California coastline, and playing a game of soccer.

Consumers are spending more time playing games; they're also becoming more willing to make in - game purchases — spending real money to buy, say, new weapons for their fictional characters — enabling some companies to replace a dependency on new hits with a steady, recurring revenue stream.

Most of his media appearances have been on reality television and game shows, and in 2014 he wrote about the experience in a Los Angeles Times essay.

A game time decision on Congress» next big legislative push — including whether or not to use a special procedural pathway in the Senate that would nix the need for any Democratic votes — may come down to what President Donald Trump tells Republican leadership during a meeting this weekend at Camp David.

In the summer of 2009, she closed her wedding calligraphy business to focus on Stella & Dot full - time, attending trunk shows and training others while juggling her kids» football games and doctors» appointments.

In the modern sales game, a vendor must nail two things: 1) Timing (knowing when to reach out, and 2) Expertise (demonstrating their expert status on a prospect's current environment, pain points, and initiatives).

At the same time, borrowers purchasing homes using PRIMARQ would have less skin in the game, potentially making it more likely that they would walk away from their mortgages if they fell on hard times or if the market tanked.

An important and useful element of the thinking at the time was the replacement of the earlier «control theory» approach to policy (i.e. the belief that the central point was to find an appropriate spot on the Phillips curve and to stay there), towards a «game theoretic» view, in which the critical issues related to behaviour — the interaction between the monetary authorities and the public.

The New York Times notes other Fox hosts don't get as much leeway, but Hannity has the network's best ratings: «On Monday, his first show since the revelations about Mr. Cohen, Mr. Hannity pulled in 3.7 million viewers, topping his MSNBC rival, Rachel Maddow, and two N.B.A. playoff games,» The Times writes.