Sentences with phrase «player base hits»

While that could change once a larger player base hits the game during its release next week, it's already a big improvement from what we last saw during the first few weeks of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe «s debut on the platform and is encouraging for the game to develop a strong, consistent online audience in the coming weeks.

Not exact matches

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

As for IndieGogo and Rockethub, the heavy hitting perk - based players who intend to support equity crowdfunding, I have a suspicion they'll avoid competing on this front, electing instead to target for - profit projects.

So far in the 2010s, an average of 7.6 players per year have hit 20 homers and stolen 20 bases in the same season.

A game of inches in which 90 feet separate the bases, ten hits can be the difference between hitting.280 and.300 over 550 at bats, and the very best players in the world still fail 65 % of the time... yes.

Last season only one player exceeded 200 hits, with Houston's Jose Altuve recording 225 base knocks.

# 2 Willie Mays FAIRFIELD One of baseball's most complete players; hit 660 homers, stole 338 bases, won 12 Gold Gloves; two - time MVP.

«He's a 26 - year - old switch - hitting centerfielder with high on - base, high slugging, accomplished enough to hit in the middle of our order right now, and that's a rare player,» says first - year Los Angeles G.M. Paul DePodesta, who points out that Bradley won't become a free agent until after the»07 season.

In the first two weeks of the season players in both leagues were scampering around the base paths like crazy, using steals, the hit - and - run and the bunt to win tight games

He was the first National League player to lead the majors in hits and stolen bases since Honus Wagner in 1908, and the first NL player to lead the NL in batting average and steals since Jackie Robinson in 1949.

JASON KIPNIS is an elite player — a lefthanded hitting infielder who steals bases and hits home runs and plays as hard as he does.

Before 1898, a player earned a steal not only in the traditional way but also by taking an extra base on a hit — i.e., reaching third from first on a single — or on an out, a fly ball for instance.

King works with the two players on what she calls a «full - time part - time» basis, as a remarkable supplement to Navratilova's full - time coach, Craig Kardon, and Mayotte's hitting coaches, Chris Pucci and Jeff Arons.

The categories considered for position players were batting average, home runs, RBIs and stolen bases; for pitchers the categories were wins, saves, earned run average and WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched).

In fact he had hit upon a scheme to get his meals half price, a proposition based upon the premise that, to busy waitresses, all tennis players look alike.

Of course a player who had never enjoyed anything longer than a nine - game hitting streak would go on a club - record 13 - game tear in the playoffs and set major league postseason records for RBIs (21) and total bases (50) and tie the mark for hits (25).

This pint - sized player can steal bases like Lou Brock, catch balls in his mouth like Willie Mays, and hit homers like Reggie Jackson.

Angel Gomes is a player who has hit the headlines recently based on the fact he has now turned 17 and so far has not signed his first professional contract with Mancheste... Read more

In fact, only three players in the Switzerland top flight hit the back of the net on a more regular basis.

To quantify youth football players» exposure to head impacts in practices and games over the course of a single season, the researchers outfitted helmets of 50 players on three teams in two different leagues with the HIT (Head Impact Telemetry) system, an array of helmet - mounted accelerometers (i.e. hit sensors) installed on an elastic base inside the helmHIT (Head Impact Telemetry) system, an array of helmet - mounted accelerometers (i.e. hit sensors) installed on an elastic base inside the helmhit sensors) installed on an elastic base inside the helmet.

During his playing days he was widely respected as one of those rare, versatile players who could drive in runs, hit for average, steal bases, field flawlessly, and on occasion perform arthroscopic surgery on the odd ailing teammate.

«Some studies show that the risk of concussion goes up based on how many hits a player received in the preceding days as well as how many concussions they may have had in the past.»

It's a hit among the obsessive sports / fantasy league fans and a hit to the opposite crowd: people like me who have fallen asleep during football games and picked a fantasy team based on how attractive the players are.

Pick your street basketball player from a pool of custom - designed, one - of - a-kind characters based on real - life street basketball players, team up with your friends online or in - person, and hit the court to play authentic, fast - paced gameplay.

You can either choose to go into the single - player Pac - Man Championship Edition 2, which is just the base game that hit PC, PS4, and Xbox One in 2016, or Pac - Man Championship Edition 2 Plus 2P, which contains the brand new two - player mode.

In the heat of a four - man, stock - based online game, there's a great chance even the biggest novice could knock a few experienced players out with a few lucky hits.

By skating into a player at the right speed and angle, highlight reel hits are performed on a regular basis.

Here, up to four players (with AI enemies making up the numbers if need be) can gather around a single PC and hit it off against one another with dynamic multiplayer, goal - based gameplay that changes with every round.

Once again based on a supposedly true case of the paranormal witnessed by the Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring 2 reunites all the major players behind the surprise 2013 hit The Conjuring, including director and co-writer James Wan, fellow screenwriters Carey and Chad Hayes, composer Joseph Bishara, editor Kirk M. Morri and production designer Julie Berghoff.

Later games introduced modes like «Ring Shot,» where players can earn points by hitting the ball through rings of varying sizes; «Item Battle,» where characters use items based on the Mario universe to interfere with each other's game and gain an advantage; and special minigames where the player can meet a tennis - related objective, incorporating themes from past Nintendo games.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Cricket Documentary Recounts Rise and Dominance of West Indian Team Superficially, cricket looks a lot like baseball, except the players use a flat bat, hit the ball on a bounce and don't bother to run around the bases.

With Ready Player One hitting high score levels of box - office receipts, it's no surprise to learn that rival studios wish to hit «continue» on Ernest Cline adaptations, with Universal keen to move ahead with a movie based on his 2015 novel Armada.

The game, which is based on the over-the-top action film set to hit cinemas in August, allows players to take on the role of four of the world's most crusty legendary mercenaries: Barney Ross, Gunner Jensen, Hale Caesar and Yin Yang.

With PvP, PvE, and custom servers along with a single - player option, Conan Exiles wants to be the survival game you want it to be, and judging by the player base, it's hitting the mark for a lot of people.

The game is based off of the new anime series Naruto Spin - Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals, the latest series in the hit Naruto and Naruto Shippuden anime franchise, allowing players to take the role of either whisker - faced Naruto Uzumaki or bushy - eyebrowed Rock Lee and enjoy lively ninja missions directly based off of their animated storylines.

A player's on - base percentage is the proportion of at - bats for which he walked or got a hit.

First up there are major traversal changes coming, with jumping and climbing set to impact the way players interact with the world «a big way», with vehicles, helicopters, and base building also set to land before the game hits 1.0.

It's fair to say that the Destiny 2 hype train is at full speed prior to launch this month, and considering the substantial player base Destiny had, the sequel is shaping up to be one of the biggest hits of the year.

This is some surprisingly familiar ground for Telltale, their last episodic game series the smash hit The Walking Dead (also based on a comic series) was awarded over 70 game of the year awards because of its great writing, characters and its mastery of the use of player choice and agency through its storytelling.

He also pointed out that depth - based effects can already be seen in 2D Mario games, such as Wiggler, and Bullet Bill and he commented, «It's difficult to tell when they will hit the player, so we were only able to use these lightly.

Like with Just Dance 2, we plan to release new songs and choreographies on a regular basis so players can always get more fun and the latest billboard hits.

ALEX RIGOPULOS (Boston) is the founder and CEO of leading Boston - based music game developer Harmonix, and the creative mastermind behind the multi-award winning hit game Guitar Hero, which puts the player at center stage with his or her own rock band.

There's Smack Attack, which has players hitting each other with weapons in a race to see who can get the mosts hits in, Flag Rally, which has players search the stage for flags that have to be brought to bases to score, and finally Gate Relay, the game's lap mode.

I do understand why Pastagames have tried to hit the multiplayer market, but whether you play the multiplayer battles with one, two or three local sofa based mates, it just doesn't ever bring the same joy as that found in any of the single player modes.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

In the options menu, a player can show the hit area for their own plane and their enemies so that the game can be adjusted based on the players level of play.

The other mode is called Coalition where you can group with up to 3 other players via ad - hoc and take on different mission types like capture all the bases, defend your base, one hit kills, etc..

Revolving around a set turn - based order that can be altered through buffs and specific attacks, battles let players move around the battlefield to alter which enemies or allies will get hit by their abilities.

Daytona USA likely has more players than it proclaims as it doesn't count those who just play online or strictly Arcade mode, and Worms Crazy Golf doesn't seem to have hit much of a player base.

The «Zapper» fires out in front of the player's ship, while the «blaster» will hit the bases shooting up from below.