Sentences with phrase «than a shell game»

Not exact matches

Last summer Electronic Arts shelled out upwards of $ 1.3 billion for PopCap Games, which had its game apps downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide, thanks to mobile hits like Plants vs. Zombies.

Microsoft plans to spend $ 5 billion on the internet of things, and it's more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements.

VICTORIA — More than 500,000 B.C. families will see one of the largest ever medical services premium (MSP) tax hikes on January 1, thanks to Christy Clark's MSP shell game, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

You are applying human characteristics to a divine being, that doesn't work.God is more complex than that, you are running a shell game and calling it reason, you are, in this instance and for the cited reason, wrong.God is not a man, his ways are so far above mans ways, they can not be comprehended.You can not reduce God, and cite that as proof.

We ought to recognize that a «shell game» is being played on us by the defenders of the «neutral» state, but the stakes are much higher than in any ordinary game of three - card Monte.

Rather than going into their shell after scoring, Arsenal are looking to take advantage of the other team being vulnerable by pushing to increase the lead and make the game more comfortable.

«If Liverpool score first at Old Trafford, they could run out comfortable winners because you can see them picking United apart if they are forced to come out of their shell and chase the game, but I also feel United could be better than they are in the final third.»

Although the tactic's effectiveness in the modern game is making it more of a necessity than an option, there's an obvious risk a team takes when pressing as opposed to dropping into a defensive shell.

I wont go into speculative reasons of their wrong behavior such as, premium shells rolling higher, matchmaking being rigged, or releasing overpowered pay to win content (then nerfing it when they release new pay to win content, aka planned obsolescence), or anything else which cant be verified but is widely thought as true, I will simply state the facts which are more than enough to show you this game is not worth your time or money.

But Color Splash offers up a simple, overly familiar story — one reminiscent of early Mario games — about little more than saving the princess, capturing the castle, and defeating the turtle - shelled bad guy.

Bananas can be used as shields to break homing items such as Red Shells; however, they can not be dragged behind the kart like in past games, making this technique harder to execute than before.

Because more than 90 percent of school revenues come from state and local sources, lawmakers worried that districts would play a shell game with new Title I funds — transferring a dollar of local resources to rich schools from poor ones for every new federal dollar earmarked for poor schools that arrived.

- dev spent 21 months on the project - built and coded by hand from inside the game world - played on a realistic Gameboy - you can even customize the color of the shell - includes more than 357,000 command blocks - has «all of the original game's features, along with a few iconic bugs» - no outside tools were used in the project - walked the equivalent of 2,832.89 kilometers in - game

If you were one of the people that shelled out the big bucks to get Silvergun stateside more than a decade ago, then an XBLA release might sting a bit... but I guess you've been playing the game all this time while the rest of us have had to watch from afar.

It was also really strange, even for a Mario game, since you had a Super Ball instead of fireballs, the Big Bad was an alien rather than Bowser, the Koopas had exploding shells, and the princess was Daisy, not Toadstool.

t out of what is really an unbalanced, awfully «redundant,» and incomplete experience, while C) cranking up the price (on a freaken DLC) so goddamn high that we are being asked to shell out the cost of a full game, for what «is» (more than likely) just another s #!

If the game is difficult enough then that's fine I'd be more than happy to shell out it's retail price.

If you are a collector, or have an obsessive child, be prepared to shell out way more than the base cost of the game.

This is where the problem lies though, if you've previously played the game on the Wii and would love nothing more than to play the game on the go you have to remember that it can't even be played unless you shell out an additional $ 239.99 for the new handheld console needed to run the damn thing.

Sega hired UK developer Sumo Digital to port the game, but they did much more than that, fleshing it out beyond its arcade shell and churning out not just a great arcade racer, but a great console arcade racer.

To me this is much better than timed trials and demos before I shell out hard earned dough on a game I've only seen reviews or YouTube videos for.

The story offered up is weak and little more than a shell for the player to run around and shoot some more Nazis or Communists or Zombies or whatever enemy the latest slew of games presents.

The most creatively ambitious games of 2011 and 2012 like Assassins Creed III, Far Cry 3, and Battlefield 3 were not able to do much more than serve as shells of their potential and sacrificed frame rate, resolution, and player counts to simply be able to function on those old machines, which drove many to play them as they were meant to be played on the PC.

Is Atari's new video game console a retro gaming emulator in a fancy shell, or something much more than that?

SNK Playmore has already announced the compilation Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii, making the surprising announcement that the games would be retrofitted to take advantage of the Wii remote rather than just using the shell controller.

It's also more physically interactive than most PSVR games thanks to the optional Aim Controller, which looks like a shell to pop a Move controller in but is actually a fully solid PSVR gun peripheral.

Drawing on more than 30 courses and battle arenas from every game in the Mario Kart series - not to mention tons of new ones, Mario Kart DS allows you to play as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Toad, Bowser and Shy Guy as you put the pedal to the go - kart metal, grab coins to max out your speed and blast rivals with the ever - popular arsenal of red, green and spiked Koopa shells in a race to finally put to rest the question of who is the true king of the Mushroom Kingdom racing circuit.

The entire framing of this uncertainty shell games amounts to no more than that of the anti-scientific fellows (and often Fellows) over a century ago who imagined their brilliant riposte to Rutherford's work, that microscopes lacked the resolving power to directly observe atoms, therefore Rutherford's conclusions could be dismissed, held water.

But don't you go thinking that it's a, «make more committees within committees, hand - is - quicker - than - the - eye shell game,» [xi] because justifying all of this re-structuring is the following recommendation (to which I have added embolding to facilitate any further dressing, or re-dressing of law society windows that might ever be needed):