To this day MicroProse continues to use his name to market games like Sid Meier's Civilization and Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon that Meier developed during his fourteen-year tenure with the company.
Even for consumers, the characteristics that engage are software related: Facebook, Search, games, to name a few.
But recently, some smaller developers are having an important influence about what games are about, and are getting some help from a big-name "big brother" to take console games in a different direction.
Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor, coach, trainer or official who participates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games.
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Barner actually spent the time each year for NCAA Football games to get his name and number on his in-game jersey.
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But if a zero-sum, winner-take-all struggle for leverage is the name of the game, those games seldom conclude as the winners might hope.
After a decade of hype from Meier's former company, MicroProse , Meier's name has become a powerful videogame brand name, associated with brainy strategy games.
If the chance comes - Ryan's got a niggle, but I don't think it's too bad - I've just got to put in a decent performance and have my name in the hat for the games to come.
England opted to name the same squad for the two games at The Oval and the one-day internationals which follow.
His other TV credits include the role of Gamesmaster in the 1990s computer games show of the same name.
Gearbox Software made its name making Half Life spin-off games, and are entirely confident with what makes a good FPS experience.
Casey Dulin scored 13 points to lead the Red Foxes (26-7), who have made a name for themselves by winning first-round games as double-digit seeds, advancing to the second round as a No. 13 a year ago and as a No. 10 in 2011.
Billy Connolly has been confirmed as the latest star name to become an ambassador for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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" Saturo Iwata comes on stage and sez: "My name is Iwata, I'm about making games, and I'm about playing games.
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As the Classic Gaming website reports, Microprose, once known as the name behind Civilization, Railroad Tycoon and other classic games, is now set to release a bundle of new products that likely wouldn't garner a second glance if not for the brand.
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His name has also been mentioned in connection with illegal poker games.
DeNA wants to become the largest mobile social games company in the world and a household name in the U.S., says its chief executive Tomoko Namba.
Sabathia dropped the periods in his first name, and he's gone on to win eight games without a loss from Milwaukee.
Or do we reach out to somebody in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Romney made a name for himself as the CEO of the '02 Olympic Games?
Comcast and Cox were also name dropped as potential candidates to bring console-quality HD games directly to customers, based on tech from startups like Playcast, CiiNOW and Agawi.
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"Kids coming in here with their parents can name every gun, because they use them in the video games they can tell you the rate of fire, what era it is from, " Conn says.
News flash: people like to watch NCAA tournament games on television, especially when upstarts and big-name programs are involved.
The swimmer who, under her maiden name Michelle Smith, won three gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games, is under investigation by International Swimming Federation after it said the doping sample taken in November last year showed clear signs of contamination.
Its name probably derives from a variation of agonalis or agone, for the games held in the emperor's oval stadium.
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Neither of this year's biggest domestic hits, "The Avengers" and "The Hunger Games, " relied on the strength of a sole marquee name.
"In 1932 Babe Didrikson (a gold medalist in hurdling and the javelin at the Los Angeles Games of 1932) came in and evolved into the big name and pushed everyone else onto the sidelines, " said Mallon.
Horsfield made his name in the 1997-98 season when he scored 30 goals in 40 games to help Halifax into the Football League, whilst still working part-time as a bricklayer.
In the coming years, many of the most interesting online games will be produced not by large teams of developers at big-name corporations, but instead by smaller, independent groups of developers who allow their customers to be partners in creating the IP that comes to define the in-game experience.
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