It's the season where finally my blog's
title is on trend!
Not exact matches
Kurtz
is a heavy favorite for an NCS
title and
is trending toward improving
on his 4th - place finish at the CIF State Championships a year ago.
The Gunners appear to
be appear to
be giving in to the growing
trend of playing with 3 centre - halves, as Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United have all tried out this term, and it has so far proved a success, with the Blues closing
on the
title since the change in system, and Spurs their nearest rivals to win the league.
Defending
title champs have struggled ATS in these Christmas Day games and there
are some other notable
trends, especially
on the total, that our friends at Bet Labs point out.
So they
are trending a bit and they have lost just one of their last nine league games now and that
was on the road at
title - challenging Brighton at the end of November.
Indeed, there
is a well - developed
trend in the Global North to focus
on the issue of rape in the DRC (see Eve Ensler's call for an end to report - making of rape in the Congo and a move towards action,
titled «Over»).
After Xbox Live Arcade re-launched
on Xbox 360, the «Arcade»
titles being released had a meager size limit of 50 MB and retained the
trend of
being quick, shallow experiences.
And while it
's easy to point at the breakaway success of battle royale games and your typical streamer - bait
titles, there
are plenty of examples in the industry for high - quality, AAA story - focused
titles which still achieved success, meaning Red Dead Redemption 2 focusing
on story and solo play
is still fitting the «
trends».
biggest issue with the Wii U
is their ignorance of North America, their poor online experience and slow game turnover rate generic 3rd party support
is almost dead
on Wii U, so its good to see Nintendo going to other companies to make some exclusive
titles for them (hyrule warriors, fatal frame) lets hope this
trend continues
Sadly, getting a Blu - ray copy of this
title in stores won't
be possible (although Amazon
is doing
On Demand Blu - ray copies of the film starting 10/25), continuing a recent, annoying
trend in which arthouse hits
are released standard - only.
We greatly appreciate the President's efforts to reverse this damaging
trend, and we urge him to follow through
on the federal level by restoring the $ 650 million that his proposed education budget eliminates from the
Title II program, money that
is currently used by states and districts to reduce class size and keep teachers
on staff.»
The big
trend in 2016 have
been indie authors implementing copylines into book
titles on Amazon.
Their commitment to creating design solutions based
on genre, audience and
trends in the marketplace has
been a key contributing factor in the success of their
titles.
Some say that this behavior by book agents in the early 20th century
was responsible for the
trend of publishers beginning to print fewer
titles and take fewer chances
on newer and / or lesser known authors... another
trend that continues today, and continues to
be debated.
But looking ahead to the
trends that may play a large factor in reading for 2013, at least for younger readers, Scholastic issued its predictions for
titles on bullying to
be important.
Other
trends that will
be followed in the coming year will include a more scientific sci - fi, more emphasis
on biographies and history for younger readers, more cartoon - based novels like the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, strong female protagonists and survival / adventure stories, and a greater appreciation for diversity in both the characters and the story lines of these
titles.
More importantly may
be the data that shows that, despite criticism from the industry, self - published and indie published
titles did not destroy book pricing with their 99 - cent books; however, the fourth
trend did demonstrate that book prices have taken an overall drop, but this
is largely due to high - volume online retailers who can negotiate these prices, not just indie authors who strategize
on low pricing as a means to drive book sales.
My book CLOCKWORK SOLDIERS (to
be published under the revamped
title SHADOW SOLDIERS) entered Hot &
Trending on the first day and stayed there for the rest of the month it
was on Kindle Scout.
From cult and
trending authors and
titles, to bestselling blockbusters, and Indie Authors
on the rise, Bookzio
is an amazing place to find that next great read.
Undoubtedly eBooks
are on the rise, but we've noticed a
trend where readers with an eBook might tell a friend without an e-reader about a
title and that friend then goes and buys a print copy.
The lesson they took from that — building
on the
trend of celebrity books, blogger books, cutesy
titles on the latest meme —
was something else entirely:
Overwhelmingly, Kindle and Nook users rely
on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble online storefronts respectively to aid them in browsing for
titles; that
trend was tied at 64 % of users for both Kindle and B&N tablet readers.
Penguin has
been operating out of India since 1985 and
is hoping to capitalize
on the growing digital
trend by bringing a number of hot
titles, such as Tom Rath's StrengthsFinder 2.0, Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad, Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization, and Kishore Mahbubani's The New Asian Hemisphere.
Continuing
on the semi-boys» love
trend, I
was amazed to see a whole slew of DokiDoki
titles on the shelf of Chapters (the B&N / Borders equivalent to you Americans out there).
not saying it could not, or did not happen
on purpose, but without a pattern or
trend of the
titles taken down, this
is wild speculation.
There
are key numbers to watch in this business, things like return
on investment (ROI), sales per department and / or sales per square foot, profit and loss statements (and what it takes to make more profits than losses), sales histories and
trends per category and per
title, etc..
With an ever - increasing number of book
titles entering the market each year, it
's important to stay
on top of industry
trends, understand your options and keep your marketing wheels in motion.
This seems to
be a
trend, as last year Reader's Entertainment reported, that Beijing, China
was offering book
titles on their subway system.
Seven Seas hasn't had enough physical releases in the past few months for me to notice a
trend but that could change in 2012 based
on the increase in
titles we
're seeing.
Produced by the Frankfurter Buchmesse New York and Publishing Perspectives, the first day of the event
was held in the library of the Goethe - Institut, where publishers heard presentations and had one -
on - one meetings to talk about new
titles and
trends in their respective markets.
CBNC pointed out what we've
been saying here
on and
on for years, with the succinctly
titled Comic books buck
trend as print and digital sales flourish, and they -LSB-...]
(pure speculation base
on current sales
trends) The more gaming consoles you have out in the wild the more worth while it will
be to create AAA
titles.
It seems like there
is a bit of a
trend with gamers
being blindsighted by gorgeous looking
titles that later
on turn out to
be rather poor in every other department.
Ubisoft have officially confirmed that they
're working
on a brand new Tetris
title for both systems, but we can't help but wonder whether the legendary license will struggle to compete with the biggest AAA franchises without embracing current videogame
trends.
There
is a common and unfortunate
trend in video game development in which a great game
is released
on a home console, and then a vastly inferior version — or spin - off —
is released as a portable
title.
I'd certainly recommend picking up Norn9: Var Commons if you've experienced the recent batch of Visual Novels that have come to the Vita and want to keep the
trend up, however, if you
're looking to jump
on the Visual Novel bandwagon then I would highly recommend visiting other
titles in the genre first before playing this one.
A number of Chinese developers and publishers have already jumped
on the battle royale
trend and have
been quick to release their own battle royale
title or game mode.
It
's bad enough they didn't continue the
trend they sit with PS1
titles on PS3 / PSP / PSV with PS2 games
on PS4, as can
be seen with Twisted Metal: Black, the GTA games, and more...
I've
been frankly exasperated by the worrying
trend of down - scoring Vita games by both mainstream and independent reviewers,
on titles I myself have deemed fantastic achievements
on Sony's portable.
This means that Sony and Nintendo's concentration
on a handful of AAA
titles at E3
is likely a
trend that will continue, particularly as Sony has begun to lean more heavily
on the acquisition and distribution of third - party and indie
titles as a major selling point for their system.
Asa from the team will most likely disagree with my sentiments regarding more Xbox One
titles being available
on PC because he regards that as a healthy
trend that does not necessarily hurt the Xbox One but I can not see how that
is the case.
The sequel to the 2001 launch game for the Nintendo GameCube, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
is set to release
on the Nintendo 3DS early next year, finally breaking from the
trend of
titles featuring Mario as the main character.
This also began something of a
trend where the original Overworld (or «Ground», if you prefer) music would go
on to
be remixed and reused frequently in subsequent Mario
titles, but seldom (if ever) as an Overworld theme again.
Thanks to
titles like Epic Games» Fortnite and Bluehole Studio's PlayerUnknown's Battlegroundsdominating news cycles, a major
trend favoring battle royale
titles seems to continue
on an upward swing, and Treyarch may
be able to dedicate a solid amount of time to put its own unique spin
on the genre that outshines Zombies.
On todays episode we discuss Zynga struggling with it
's new
titles, Square Enix
is bucking the
trend when it comes to mobile games pricing, Gaikai coming to Facebook, plus more.
I must also point out another thing that
is hurting not only Nintendo, but also other console video game manufacturers and even PC and Mac game makers and that
is that video games that
are totally dedicated to them
are actually
on a downward
trend and the only things that
are saving them
are emulated
titles from yesteryear, emulated import
titles from yesteryear, independent developers making low cost games that
are essentially DLC to your console or computer, and the massive rise of casual games and pay - to - play games.
Users can now see which
titles are «
Trending on Xbox» or «
Trending on Twitter» while they browse the OneGuide.
FingerGaming [RSS feed]
is already publishing daily news, analysis, and reviews from the swiftly burgeoning iPhone and iPod Touch gaming scene, including the latest from Steve Jobs
on the iPhone Store's game expansion, early impressions of iPhone
titles including Spore: Origins and iSplume, and increasing concentrations
on interviews, analysis, and
trends in the new business.
On a recent update to the North American Playstation Store, under
trending items Sony put the name of the next Call of Duty,
titled Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare which appears to
be the 2016
title developed by Infinity Ward.
In addition to Tencent's continued market dominance with several
titles in the Top Ten rankings based
on iOS downloads and revenue, other
trends are compelling as well so check out the column here.