Sentences with phrase «wave of hype»

NASA has gotten into the act using the tools of social media to tamp down occasional waves of hype surrounding a serious challenge — efforts to find and track asteroids that might someday collide with Earth.

This is a country whose football team is regularly thrust high on waves of hype and nationalist tubthumping, then brought crashing down in a violent mess of disappointment and recrimination.

That goes especially hard for Star Wars, a cultural juggernaut that's been riding its own waves of hype for decades, to frequently mixed results.

In the red corner, we have the fallen aristocrats, forever being thrown forward by crashing waves of hype then dragged back down by the undertow of despair.

The tidal wave of hype that attended Ayton's arrival in Tucson last year as one of the top prospects in the class of 2017 was appropriate.

The willingness of pharmaceutical giants and investors to bet on that premise to the tune of nearly $ 2 billion has unleashed waves of both hype and skepticism.

Go here and you'll see that the last press release on Microsoft's own Reader site was dated July 2003 (still the situation as at 25 July 2008)-- never a good sign but probably about the time the bubble from the last ebook wave of hype burst.

As enjoyable as Infamous, DriveClub (eventually) and Killzone were, they never rode such a continuous wave of hype after release.

You finally plonked down some hard - earned cash on Nintendo's newest home console, thanks to the much - too - long - awaited second wave of hype that currently envelops it.

It's certainly a step away from the studio's work on the Don't Starve series, but even with only a few details teased and a short trailer, Grift Lands has already generated a huge wave of hype.

Microsoft and Sony's new consoles launched last year; Valve's vaunted Steam Machines, after a crushing wave of hype, were delayed until next year.

Buyers should consider that without a lot of money to artificially pump up the price of Peercoin or an extremely large wave of hype to do the same, it's possible that Peercoin might stay in the shallow end of cryptocurrency market caps.

Despite a wave of hype surrounding VR prior to the high - profile debuts of the Vive and Rift headsets in 2016, not nearly as many people have bought the high - priced headsets as some firms originally projected.

«The bots you see live today may be slightly gimmicky and mostly launched to join in the wave of hype surrounding bots,» says Mike Slone, chief experience officer for Travelaer, a software and chatbot developer focused on the travel industry.

The problem is that it also generates a wave of hype which is not helpful and we need to be very careful what we promise with it.»

The French side to banish the ghosts of last season's collapse against Barcelona and — amid a wave of hype for their Champions League prospects — send the holders crashing out after a back and forth tie.

Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this year, this powerful drama heads to UK homes this summer on a wave of hype, but for the more cynical viewers out there do we need another Holocaust movie?

«Carol» debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it scored a Queer Palm and a Best Actress award for Rooney Mara, and, with its careful release to festivals this season, is sure to ride the wave of hype to a December release.

Somehow, God of War survived a wave of hype and successfully rebooted the classic action franchise in clever — and welcome — ways.

Destiny 2 was one of the most hyped games of this past fall, and with the amount of online advertisements and cross promotion it was must have been hard to not get caught up in the waves of hype (I -LSB-...]

Part of what allows us to define a year like 2017 as the «year of battle royale» is the wave of hype and influence surrounding something specific in gaming.

Instead of riding on a wave of hype thanks to the latest Star Wars film, the game was picked apart over its stingy economy and predatory microtransaction system.

Destiny 2 was one of the most hyped games of this past fall, and with the amount of online advertisements and cross promotion it was must have been hard to not get caught up in the waves of hype (I got so excited for D2 I ended up playing it on both PlayStation 4 and PC).

Pebble rose on a wave of hype through crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, and the business model was deemed by many to be the answer to funding hardware startups — companies get paid upfront by customers to build things, thereby circumventing the costly overheads that naturally come with building physical products.

But the big question is - can it stand up to the waves of hype?