Namco joins a number of other game-makers trying to make multi-platform games, now that social games are spreading from browser to mobile, including everyone from the more traditional Electronic Arts to casual game-maker Bigpoint.
Mr. Hautemont believes his experience in the technology world has helped him as a board-game maker.
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Facebook's efforts in recent years to offer tools for outside developers helped launch start-ups like social-game maker Zynga Inc.
Makoto Yamashina and his boardroom colleagues agreed to sell the firm to Sega Enterprises, a Japanese video-game maker that was itself being hammered by Sony and Nintendo.
Ian Reynolds, Abertay graduate and co-founder game maker of Quartic Llama, has been working to programme the LEDs needed for the display.
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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Younis Khan, meanwhile, remains one of the most quietly impressive test batsmen in the game, an effortless stroke-maker all around the wicket who seems to acquire runs without trying.
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He cited recent high-profile launches by game maker Zynga Inc.
Last year, the Shenzhen-based Tencent bought small video game maker Riot Games of Los Angeles.
The maker of the game, Stockholm-based MAG Interactive, boasts that it now has more than 9 million players in over 100 countries.
She said all games classified either as suitable for over-15s or over-18s by the maker of the game were then considered by the British Board of Film Classification for certification.
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Japanese game giant Nexon continues to have success with the free-to-play online game business model it pioneered when it was a Korean game maker.
Today, a Kyoto facility designed by game maker Sega lets people experience Mother Nature's nasty streak: a virtual-reality earthquake.
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Yamauchi had transformed Kyoto-headquartered Nintendo from the obscure playing-card company he inherited from his grandfather into a leading global maker of game consoles.
Now the game maker has partnered with Hollywood to create a 3D feature film based on the bestselling cross-platform game franchise.
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