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The Big Con (video Game)
''The Big Con'' is an adventure game developed by Mighty Yell and published by Skybound Games. The game was released for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on August 31, 2021. A Nintendo Switch version was released on June 1, 2022. Set in the 1990s, the game follows Ali, a teenager who works at a video rental store owned by Linda, her mother. After learning that her mother owes $97,342.18 to loan sharks, she meets Ted, a con-artist. They travel across the United States, earning money to save Linda's store. The PC version of ''The Big Con'' received favorable reviews, while the Xbox Series X/S version received mixed reviews. Gameplay ''The Big Con'' is an adventure game where players control Ali, a teenager who has to raise money to save her mother's store. In each location, the player has to steal a certain amount of money. Once the threshold is reached, the player can continue to explore, or leave the area by talking to Ted. Ali can earn money by pickpocketing non-play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skybound Games
Skybound Entertainment is an American multiplatform entertainment company founded by Robert Kirkman and David Alpert. History Skybound Entertainment is the company behind the long-running comic, '' The Walking Dead'', created by Robert Kirkman. Since the company’s founding in 2010, Skybound has developed properties in traditional and new media, including comics, gaming, television, film, and digital media series. The company has since launched into the virtual reality space, and in 2017, created an in-house digital studio for online content. In 2016, Skybound Entertainment expanded internationally with the opening of Skybound North in Vancouver, led by former Lucasfilm Animation executive Catherine Winder. In 2018, Skybound created Skybound Games to develop video games based on its intellectual property, and Skybound Stories, a joint venture with Sky plc. Comics In addition to the Eisner Award-winning comic book series, '' The Walking Dead'', Kirkman’s other titles inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and director. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms ''Clarissa Explains It All'' (1991–1994), ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003), and ''Melissa & Joey'' (2010–2015), and also in '' No Good Nick'' (2019). She has also appeared in films ''Drive Me Crazy'' (1999), ''Nine Dead'' (2009), and ''God's Not Dead 2'' (2016). On October 17, 2021, she became the first celebrity to win the $1 million top prize for her charity, Youth Villages, on ''Celebrity Wheel of Fortune'' and the fourth overall million dollar winner on ''Wheel of Fortune''. Early life Hart was born in Smithtown, New York, the first child of Paula Hart (née Voje), a producer and talent manager, and William Hart, a carpenter, shellfish purveyor, oyster hatchery worker, and entrepreneur. Her maternal grandfather, Stanley John Voje, was a Navy veteran and Catholic. Hart grew up in Sayville, New York. Hart's paren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows Central
Future plc is an international multimedia company established in the United Kingdom in 1985. The company has over 220 brands that span magazines, newsletters, websites, and events in fields such as video games, technology, films, music, photography, home, and knowledge. Zillah Byng-Thorne has been CEO since 2014. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1985–2012 The company was founded as Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, in 1985 by Chris Anderson with the sole magazine ''Amstrad Action''. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software on magazine covers; they were the first company to do so. It acquired GP Publications so establishing Future US in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, the company published ''Arcane'', a magazine which largely focused on tabletop games. Anderson sold Future to Pearson plc for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, with Future chief executive Greg Ingham and Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ID@Xbox
ID@Xbox (Independent Developers @ Xbox) is a program by Microsoft allowing independent video game developers to self-publish titles for Windows, and the Xbox One and Xbox Series X and Series S home video game consoles. Overview ID@Xbox was announced by Xbox Vice President Phil Harrison at Gamescom on August 20, 2013. General Manager, Marc Whitten was the sponsor of the project providing management and funding. Angela Hession was the Launch Architect of the program and developed the program based on input from Independent Developers. Chris Charla is director of the program. Developers who are registered in the program get access to two development kits at no cost, as well as access to all required technical documentation. Additionally, there will be no fees to update any game submitted through the program. Games released through the program also have access to all Xbox One and Xbox Live components, including Kinect, Achievements and Xbox SmartGlass. Developers in the progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Gamers
''Adventure Gamers'' is a computer game website created by Marek Bronstring in March 1998 dedicated to the genre of adventure games. It publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers. The site's reviews have been quoted on many adventure game box covers, and it is listed as a trusted reviewer on CNET's Metacritic and GameRankings. ''Adventure Gamers'' was also referenced in the print book '' Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts''. ''Adventure Gamers'' is respected by developers of adventure games. Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games ''The Longest Journey'' and '' Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'', has stated that the reviews on ''Adventure Gamers'' are "very important to im. In addition, Straandlooper, the developer of '' Hector: Badge of Carnage'', called ''Adventure Gamers'' "one of the foremost and widely respected websites about adventure games". The Aggie Awards Every year starting fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Verge
''The Verge'' is an American technology news website operated by Vox Media, publishing news, feature stories, guidebooks, product reviews, consumer electronics news, and podcasts. The website launched on November 1, 2011, and uses Vox Media's proprietary multimedia publishing platform Chorus. In 2014, Nilay Patel was named editor-in-chief and Dieter Bohn executive editor; Helen Havlak was named editorial director in 2017. ''The Verge'' won five Webby Awards for the year 2012 including awards for Best Writing (Editorial), Best Podcast for ''The Vergecast'', Best Visual Design, Best Consumer Electronics Site, and Best Mobile News App. History Origins Between March and April 2011, up to nine of ''Engadget''s writers, editors, and product developers, including editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, left AOL, the company behind that website, to start a new gadget site. The other departing editors included managing editor Nilay Patel and staffers Paul Miller, Ross Miller, Joann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PAX (event)
PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming. PAX is held annually in Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia in the United States; and Melbourne in Australia. PAX was previously held annually in San Antonio in the United States. PAX was originally created in 2004 by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the authors of the ''Penny Arcade (webcomic), Penny Arcade'' webcomic, because they wanted to attend a show exclusively for gaming. Defining characteristics of the shows include an opening keynote speech from an industry insider, game-culture inspired concerts, panels on game topics, exhibitor booths from both independent and major game developers and publishers, a LAN party Multiplayer video game, multiplayer, tabletop gaming tournaments, and video game freeplay areas. History The first PAX, known at the time as the ''Penny Arcade'' Expo, was held on August 28–29, 2004, in Bellevue, Washington, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EGLX
Enthusiast Gaming is a Canadian digital media company specializing in video game journalism. Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Menashe Kestenbaum, the company owns the websites ''Destructoid'' and ''Escapist Magazine'', as well the gaming convention Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX). The company went public on the TSX Venture Exchange in October 2018. In January 2020 the company's listing moved to the Toronto Stock Exchange. In April 2021, the company also began trading on the Nasdaq. Brands Enthusiast Gaming owns a number of websites and runs an annual convention in Toronto. Websites * ''Daily Esports'' (founded 2018) * ''DiabloII Net & Wiki'' (acquired 2018) * ''Gaming Street'' (founded 2019) * ''Nintendo Enthusiast'' (founded 2011, by Enthusiast Gaming founder) * ''Gamnesia'' (acquired 2018) * ''Planet Destiny'' (acquired 2019) * ''PlayStation Enthusiast'' (founded 2015) * Steel Media ( ''Pocket Gamer'') (acquired 2019) * The Sims Resource (acquired 2019) * ''Xbox Enthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Fennoy
Dave Fennoy is an American voice actor. His video game roles have included Lee Everett in '' The Walking Dead'', Bluebeard in ''The Wolf Among Us'', Finch in ''Tales from the Borderlands'', Gabriel the Warrior in '' Minecraft: Story Mode'', and Lucius Fox in '' Batman: Arkham Knight'' and '' Batman: The Telltale Series''. He also voiced "JP Dumund" in the Vendettas mode in ''The Darkness 2'', as well as Satan in '' Afterparty''. Early life Fennoy was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and then moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He was a child actor at the Karamu House in Cleveland. In his senior year of high school, he was president of the theater club and directed as well as performed in several plays, before attending Macalester College in St Paul Minnesota as a theater major. Fennoy left college when he began touring as a professional musician. He later returned and graduated from Howard University with a degree in jazz studies and a guitar minor. Career Fennoy started as a DJ in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Ishii
Erika Ishii is an American voice actress and host. She is best known as the voice of video game characters such as Valkyrie in ''Apex Legends'', as well as her appearances in actual play web series including ''L.A. by Night'' and ''Dimension 20''. Career Ishii's work as an actress started at a young age, with a guest appearance on ''Full House''. In an interview with Bungie, Ishii stated that playing ''The Last of Us'' (2013) inspired her to enter voice acting in video games. From the late 2010s, Ishii performed voice roles in numerous video games, and would ultimately contribute voice work to ''The Last of Us Part II'' in 2020. During her early career, Ishii was advised to conceal her sexuality and political views to avoid losing work. Later she became more open about her orientation and identity. Ishii indicated that doing so was a positive step, as it allowed her to be part of a community, and to take on relevant roles. "The industry is beginning to recognize the value of authe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug (TV Series)
''Doug'' is an American animated television series created by Jim Jinkins and produced by Jumbo Pictures. The show focuses on the early adolescent life of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington. Doug narrates each story in his journal, and the show incorporates many imagination sequences. The series addresses numerous topics, including trying to fit in, platonic and romantic relationships, self-esteem, bullying, and rumors. Many episodes center on Doug's attempts to impress his classmate and crush, Patti Mayonnaise. Jinkins developed ''Doug'' from drawings in his sketchbook that he created over the course of the 1980s. ''Doug'', a mostly autobiographical creation, was largely inspired by Jinkins's childhood growing up in Virginia, with most characters in the series being based on real individuals. He first pitched ''Doug'' as a children's book to uninterested publishers before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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