Plano, TX based game developer Gearbox has been in the game-making business for a long time.
Wizard101 is a massively multiplayer online fantasy game for children from Texas-based game developer KingsIsle Entertainment.
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Because Golden Tee is a skill-based game, it gets around gambling restrictions in all but four states.
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Shen Qu, a new Web-based game, was well-received by gamers upon launch, adding to the top-line results.
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On average, people interact with Striiv's first fitness-based game, Myland, 250% more than they check their charts.
Beercade was created in-house by McKinney from the Flash-based game, The Last Barfighter, to the arcade machine itself.
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This land-based game drive is one of many ways that the Zambezi Queen brings guests into direct interaction with their environment.
What at first looks a lot like a Diablo RPG transforms into a much more interesting looking turn-based game.
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Valve programmer Joe Ludwig revealed as much during a recent visit Engadget paid to the Bellevue, Washington-based game company.
On the other hand, combat is actually pretty decent for a touch-based game.
One reason: Movie-based game publishers tend to cut corners in development, counting instead on a movie's popularity to drive demand.
Zynga's take on "Battleship"--a classic, paper-based game that has been played by grade schoolers for decades--includes a handy "airstrike" button.
The 27-year-old instead focuses on the positives of the team's possession-based game.
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The true prize is shifting liquids from a price based game to one of volume, with America acting as the lightening rod.
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Apparently Super Bowl advertising spots are in tremendous demand, with NBC selling out all their commercial airtime for the February 5th Indianapolis-based game.
The browser-based game category is getting bigger and bigger, and City of Steam joins already popular MMOs like Drakensang Online sometime in 2013.
He points to the success of Zynga Poker, the Facebook-based game that has 60 million users who play for points and status, not dollars.
It is true that a player with such a speed-based game is vulnerable to a leg injury rendering him nearly useless, but that is true of everyone.
That honesty carried on to his next project a joint coding effort with Miguel Angel Friginal, a puzzle based game with an eight year old MacGyver-wannabe called Casey.
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"We are delighted to work together with Microsoft to bring Agawi cloud-based game streaming to Windows 8 via the Windows Azure platform, " said Peter Relan, Executive Chairman of Agawi.
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As I wrote in part one of my review, this game is all about player choice and exploration, even though at its core it is a linear, level-based game.
The same physics-based game mechanics are at play in Bad Piggies that made both Cut the Rope and Angry Birds so popular, and they're just as fun in this time around.
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Schilling, founder and chairman of Rhode Island-based game maker 38 Studios, earned the ring in a former life, when his pitching helped the Arizona Diamondbacks win the 2001 World Series.
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The Manchester, UK-based game is a high-tech version of hide and seek where players can interact online and on the street and work together to search for an elusive "Uncle Roy".
Brian Miller, producer of the Star Trek game and senior vice president at Paramount Pictures, said that the studio had the option of rushing another bad movie-based game out in tandem with J.
Enter Sibblingz: a startup that Tuesday launched a cloud-based game server that allows game developers to more quickly and easily create free-to-play games with micro-transactions in them, across Facebook, iPhone and the Web simultaneously.
"If we see someone who makes games in their spare time for fun, then we know they will be dedicated employees, " says Coray Seifert, an associate producer at New York City-based game studio Kaos.
In terms of specific verticals, Ng sees big opportunity for gaming, since browser-based game developers would be happy to get their apps in front of users on the desktop rather than having to go through the browser.
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In a July 26 interview, Founder and CEO, Seth Priebatsch, explained that his first product, SCVNGR, for which the parent company is named, is a location-based game with a simple premise: visit businesses, play games, get rewards.
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