Closely emulating a successful game is a guaranteed way to sell at least a few extra copies.
Every successful game from developers big and small has pioneered some important new facet of this experience.
Paul Anderson, who has the most successful game-to-film franchise of all time with the Resident Evil movies, is a huge gamer.
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The poverty-struck years of the Great Depression proved just the right time to launch the company's most successful game: one based on making lots of money.
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For Facebook, such deals with the most successful game companies on its social network are a way to make Credits the standard for all games and applications.
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Zynga and Pincus are on a major roll, launching successful game after successful game, acquiring companies left and right, reporting record profits, and filing for an IPO.
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As brand advertisers adopt learnings from successful game developers, they will see more return on investment, better brand recall among targeted customers and more transactions completed in the mobile forum.
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It quickly became one of the most successful game consoles in history, and Mario--star of Super Mario Brothers, which came bundled with many of those consoles--was assured his place in history.
She was chosen as ELSPA believes the success of the Tomb Raider series, developed by EIDOS Plc, provides a perfect example of the type of successful game that is being undermined by software pirates.
The other salient point about FTL is that it is an amazingly successful game: the major challenge to writing about it is that it is difficult to resist the temptation to start playing it instead.
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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.
That is because, while the plots and jokes of movie sequels are mostly thinner than the original, there is scope to improve on a successful game with technological enhancements (such as better graphics) and features such as new weapons, vehicles or character abilities.
The original Game Boy, in its various incarnations, is the most successful video game system ever -- handheld or otherwise.
Epic Games is one of the most successful independent game development studios in the world today.
The latest company to do so is Rovio, the brand behind the ultra successful mobile game Angry Birds.
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Skylanders Swap Force -- the latest crossplatform entry in the mega-successful Skylanders game franchise -- cements Activision's annual approach to its "toys to life" series.
The show also plays an important role in how successful future game, movie and TV launches will be for companies that invest millions of dollars into new franchises.
What is the most successful video game console ever?
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The most successful virtual world game companies will be the ones that can out-compete their peers in the quest for economic activity.
Man of the match Byrne enjoyed a solid display under the high ball against the Azzurri and produced a successful tactical kicking game.
Yet the Democrats, it turned out, were far more successful at the game than the Republicans, and no Democrat was a better player than John Huang.
Kotick contends Activision is the most successful Western video game software company in China already, via Worlds of Warcraft and Starcraft, both in partnership with NetEase.
What this means is that if you are successful at the game and have a lot of in game currency, ISK (InterStellar Kredits), then you can buy a PLEX from someone and use that to pay your subscription.
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Reading from the playbook of successful defense attorneys the game is on to Deny, Deny, Deny!
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Vesty added the conversation with his first successful kick of the game.
This, in turn, implies that there all of life is ranked in order of how successful it is at this game.
Jennings and Keane completed the rout and Contepomi continued his accuracy with the boot, ending the game with nine successful place-kicks from 11 attempts.
But what if you could give them their own currency, and the currency was all skill based, so the more successful they were in the game, the more points or gold that they earn, that character that they bought for eight dollars became a storehouse of all that value?
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Consistently predicting the outcome is a time-honored Washington parlor game, but rarely successful.
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