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Costs (million US$) Ref. Name Institution Dev. Marketing Total Total (2023 inflation) Grand Theft Auto V: 2013 Rockstar North: Rockstar Games: PS3, Xbox 360: Arvind Bhatia: Sterne Agee 137.5 69–109.3 206.5–246.8 270–323 [52] Red Dead Redemption 2: 2018 Rockstar Games: PS4, Xbox One: Michael Pachter: Wedbush Securities: 170 170 206 [53 ...
The idea for game achievements can be traced back to 1982, with Activision's patches for high scores. [8] [9] This was a system by which game manuals instructed players to achieve a particular high score, take a photo of score display on the television, and send in the photo to receive a physical, iron-on style patch in a fashion somewhat similar to the earning of a Scout badge.
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [99] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [100] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
Trophies have marked victories since ancient times. The word trophy, coined in English in 1550, was derived from the French trophée in 1513, "a prize of war", from Old French trophee, from Latin trophaeum, monument to victory, variant of tropaeum, which in turn is the latinisation of the Greek τρόπαιον (), [3] the neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaios), "of defeat" or "for defeat ...
A participation trophy. A participation trophy is a trophy given to participants in a competition, usually children, regardless of their success. One of the first known mentions of participation trophies occurred on February 8, 1922, in a Massillon, Ohio newspaper, The Evening Independent, in an article announcing a high school basketball tournament. [1]
A new trophy was created for the 1977 NBA Finals.The inaugural winners were the Portland Trail Blazers, who defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in six games. Unlike the original championship trophy, the new trophy was given permanently to the winning team and a new one was made every year, similar to the Vince Lombardi Trophy, awarded annually to the winning team of the NFL's Super Bowl and the ...
The first individual trophy was the Hart Trophy, first awarded in 1924 to the league's most valuable player. This trophy was replaced by the current Hart Memorial Trophy in 1960 when the original Hart trophy became too unwieldy. [2] The Lady Byng Trophy followed in 1925, a year later, awarded to the most gentlemanly player in the league.
This article lists the most expensive music videos ever made, with costs of $500,000 or more, from those whose budgets have been disclosed.. David Bowie's video for the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes" was the first music video to exceed this sum.