In 2011 it launched a turnaround that includes pushing into digital gaming and making substantial changes to how it markets its games.
Steam's Big Picture Mode -- a TV- and controller-friendly version of Valve's widely used digital gaming service -- is the first volley in Valve's big living room push.
It comes with a special set of accessories including an e-dice and four joysticks and strikers to offer a completely new digital gaming experience that combines the physical gaming accessory with the on-screen action.
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Their research and design is on game-changing topics from how people in sub-Saharan Africa and India use computers and cell phones, to the use of Twitter and social media during crisis, to how digital gaming contributes to business relationships in China, to how American families control internet use at home.
Digital social gaming is indeed the future, especially revenues derived from huge community-based users, with virtual goods and monetization.
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As for the gaming industry, Hawkins, who stepped down as CEO of his third gaming company Digital Chocolate last year, says gaming publishers seem to be going through tough times.
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There were comparable store sales declines in digital imaging and gaming.
Both attempts at digital board-gaming demonstrate how Scrabulous filled a niche by drawing on Facebook's greatest asset--what Zuckerberg calls "the social graph, " the links between users and their friends.
The MW6110's ultra compact size and high performance is engineered and highly suited for a wide range of industrial applications such as Digital Signage, Gaming, Transportation, Surveillance, and Thin Servers, to name a few.
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There were comp store declines in sales of televisions, gaming, digital imaging and physical media.
The company saw sales drop in notebooks, gaming, digital imagining, and televisions caused, in part, by customers waiting for the introduction of new products.
He and his partners also invested in social-gaming and digital-marketing companies.
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Gamers who have endured lag filled game-play with unimpressive low-resolution visuals finally can break free thanks to Digital Storm's Marauder gaming line, the first gaming PCs built around Corsair's Vengeance C70 chassis.
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Although gaming sales have been volatile this year (total U.S. sales of hardware, games and accessories decreased 14 percent during May in brick and mortar stores, following a strong April and relatively soft March), growth has been, for the most part, consistently strong in digital distribution, handheld device gaming applications, and peripherals.
It plans to buy more cable networks, one or more video-gaming businesses and other digital-media businesses to help it grow.
More students headed to school in the fall are looking to store music on their laptops, he says, so they want to buy more powerful models, along with the usual array of digital cameras, DVD consoles and gaming programs.
News like this is expected as gaming marches toward a digital only format, but the numbers are starting to add up, to the point where publishing giant EA has announced that digital sales of games and extra content will make up 20% of its revenue for the fiscal year.
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It could be a single device with various multimedia goodies: digital camera, video recorder, gaming device, wireless device, and cell phone although knowing Apple's penchant for maintaining simple interfaces, it's also likely we could see a whole lineup of multimedia devices catering to specific niches, complete with a common development platform for the fleet of Alphamosaic-based iPods.
Digital Chocolate, another prominent Silicon Valley gaming company that he started in 2003 and which has made a splash with games on other social platforms like cellphones and Facebook.
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Designed with PC gamers in mind, the Marauder gaming line delivers an incredibly immersive gaming experience while being one of the most affordable gaming PCs ever offered by Digital Storm.
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The first difference you realize is that gaming is conducted only in the digital currency bitcoin.
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Demand is also being driven by the proliferation of portable consumer electronic devices such as music players, digital cameras, video recorders, and handheld gaming consoles.
Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming, social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and home-entertainment control.
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These technologies are fundamental to the world's growing image sensor industry, with sales of over two billion units annually, and found in almost every consumer electronics device including smart phones, automobiles, tablets, televisions, gaming platforms, medical equipment and digital cameras.
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With an elegant, user-friendly interface, unparalleled speed and performance and a broad content line-up, the DivX TV platform is easy to implement and can be supported on virtually any kind of Internet-connected consumer electronics device, including digital televisions, blu-ray players, gaming consoles, pay-tv operators set-top devices, multimedia storage devices, and even mobile phones.
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It has created a new category as a multi-functional display useful for business applications, gaming, movies, or showing off digital photos directly on an HD display.
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As game consoles like PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 begin to slowly exhale their last breath, boutique PC companies like Digital Storm are aggressively marketing small form-factor gaming PCs to replace them in your office or living room.
Days of Wonder prepared digital versions for both iOS and Steam, the online gaming retailer founded by billionaire luminary Gabe Newell.
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When users boot up the machine, they will find the "Perdana" digital user interface which opens a wide variety of modern gaming features such as selecting systems, button reassignment and other features that will be named at the Midwest Gaming Classic.
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