Bad reviews due to slow or crashing apps cost their owners real dollars if users pick higher-rated competition, be that in retail or a game depending on real-money micro-transactions.

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Middle-class kids are far more likely to play a pickup game of basketball or baseball than pick up a racket.

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"In general, in game design you want to pick one or the other and not combine a bunch, " Meretzky says, adding there are few games that have mixed elements of different styles of games into one successful game.

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Imagine a professional baseball player or NFL player using Twitter to set up a pick-up game for fans.

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McLaughlin called the plot a "pick-up game" that took the organization only two or three months to plan.

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Only a small handful of build options are available, keeping Bad Piggies just as speedy of a game -- to pick up and play while commuting or while waiting at the dentist's office -- as its wildly successful progenitor.

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Indeed, once the story barrels forward you sense that the game plan of the director, Morten Tyldum, is not just to pick up speed or tickle our nerves but to rebuke and, where possible, deface the calm, smile-lacquered gloss of corporate life.

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Customers can order a PC-based system and pick from licensed game packs from companies like Atari, Midway, Sega, and Capcom, or plus in their own Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and use the cabinet and its large screen and durable controls for a retro gaming experience.

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Anyone who wants into the game industry should at the LEAST be playing around in something easy to pick up like Flash or RPG Maker so they learn the logic behind code.

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