Gamers playing on consoles, laptops, and tablet PCs are hardly the lone market for Immersive.
Harder core titles on consoles and PC will likely be licensed, not published directly by Disney.
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Social games are less complex than those played on consoles like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3.
Proprietary formats have made publishing on consoles an ordeal for anyone not at the top of the business.
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And the used game industry, which is thriving at stores like GameStop, focuses on consoles and portables, not PC titles.
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Uhrman said that there are many popular games that are on mobile devices and not on consoles that would work on television.
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Respondents who play mostly on consoles reported spending time on mobile phones as the activity that most frequently occupies their time while gaming.
Once one of the best selling series on consoles and a pop culture staple, Activision is now killing the once-great franchise Guitar Hero.
Anyways, living room co-op on consoles is fun, and fond memories of the Dark Alliance games give me nostalgic barrels of hope for Realms of Ancient War.
The new content on consoles will not be privy to all the modding goodness of the PC version, but it will be identical in every other way.
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Breaking with its long-held tradition of PC-exclusivity in the release of new titles, Blizzard has now officially confirmed that Diablo 3 will see a release on consoles.
Role-playing games, or RPGs (the primary type of games played on consoles) are not much different now than when I first played Castle Wolfenstein in the early 1980s.
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To some degree, the time people were using to play first-person shooters on consoles has been sucked up by people playing Words With Friends or Temple Run 2 on their mobile phones.
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The decision to reorganize was 100 percent made by us, with no pressure from EA. EA has a diverse business with games on consoles, PCs and practically every other platform under the sun.
It added that the move - which will also see some people reimbursed for postage and repairs on consoles which were out of warranty - was aimed at keeping the loyalty of its customers.
What this means is that the conventional development model on consoles, which is still anchored by investment sucking AAA titles like Mass Effect 3 and Modern Warfare, is seeing more and more pressure from nearly every direction.
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Market researchers reckon that most 90% by some reckoning of Blu-ray discs are played on PS3 consoles.
Or will the system be relegated to promoting bigger, richer games on other consoles?
My friends weren't really good competition on my consoles, since their only practice was when they were visiting my house.
Bay sees a day when videogames will be stored on servers, instead of played on home consoles, to offer theater-quality visual effects.
Developer Vicarious Visions really makes the Skylander experience, which is often slow-paced on home consoles, a thrilling ride filled with leaps, double-jumps, and crazy falls.
"Bayonetta 2" was announced as a Wii U exclusive, drawing howls of protest and disbelief from many on social media who enjoyed the original on other consoles.
The existence of these controls on modern consoles, smartphones and tablets is great news for families if they only knew they were there and how to access them.
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Earlier this week, China Daily quoted an anonymous government source -- allegedly straight from the Ministry of Culture -- saying China is considering lifting a 12-year-old "ban" on game consoles soon.
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Not only are the graphics prettier they include many of the enhancements from the PC version including better physics and higher definition textures the game itself simply plays much better than on other consoles.
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We saw Microsoft embrace this idea with the announcement of Xbox SmartGlass earlier this summer, an app for Windows 8, tablets and mobile devices that lets users view and interact with new content in association with games and video on their consoles.
As a long time gamer, particularly one who hangs on to and from time to time plays older games on older consoles (in addition to the new stuff), one of my big concerns is LONG TERM access to the content that I buy.
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Highlights included the return of the open pit (unlike the Ozzfest which only allowed a 1000 or so into a cordoned off area), great sets from Iron Maiden, Audioslave, Mudvayne, Disturbed (once the mic was switched on), covered areas where people could escape the sun, watch films and play on games consoles, and two stages offering a variety of different styles.
Whether HD DVD focus on standalones over consoles gives them an edge is unknown, but it seems like Blu-ray may be catching on to the strategy of giving away movies and cutting prices.
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