Cryptic thereby defies a troubling trend: Internet games, first ballyhooed as the next big thing, have struggled.
But such losses will probably be made up as DNA evidence reveals overlooked "cryptic" species.
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But Sullivan's own view of his work was much richer than this cryptic slogan suggests.
Its fans perversely enjoy the opprobrium it still attracts, as well as its deeply cryptic side.
While Larry could be cryptic and guarded about his plans, Jim has wooed Wall Street with transparency.
Retakes are freely allowed and questions are less cryptic, with more signposting about how to answer them.
Tokyoflash is known for crafting some seriously cryptic, over-the-top timepieces, and its latest efforts are no exception.
Keeping it simple is critical to the suddenly roaring success of Cryptic Studios in San Jose, Calif.
Sounds a lot better than a lot of those other cryptic taxes tacked onto phone bills, right?
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By late 2002, however, the Cryptic game was 18 months behind schedule, plagued with ineffective code and joyless, fussy play.
Such is the complexity of the region that navigating its myriad villages and vineyards is akin to solving a cryptic crossword.
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Sometimes on Show Your Bones, she's a pained lover, sometimes she's a cryptic chanteuse and sometimes she's a sort of good-natured cheerleader.
Cryptic's massively multiplayer Internet game, City of Heroes, debuted in late April and has 180, 000 users, adding 6, 000 more newcomers every week.
His lyrically innovative guitar lines and song structures, along with his oft-cryptic lyrics, have earned him a place in the rock-guitar canon.
Lots of condensed text with funny numbers and cryptic words and acronyms.
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He knows just when to be cryptic, peremptory, encouraging, and so on.
Its characters are educated-sounding people who spend much of their time saying cryptic, nasty things to one another, presumably while holding stiff cocktails.
In my case, some of my songs weren't accepted by iTunes Match, and were marked with cryptic icons that Apple doesn't adequately explain.
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The discussions revolved around the areas of education, health, water and agriculture, according to a cryptic statement issued by the Azim Premji Foundation.
The game will be free-to-play, but Cryptic COO Craig Zinkievich told Joystiq that the cash shop will not create a pay-to-win experience.
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Keeping it simple is critical to the suddenly roaring success of Cryptic Studios in San Jose, California, a hot shop founded and majority-owned by Lewis, 32.
In the 18 months before the Heroes debut, Cryptic's staff of 35 made the art and story come alive in 480, 000 lines of code.
The fingerprints are stored in a cryptic format on a standard PC, which he insists could not be reconstituted to create the actual print.
One of the senior employees said that Madoff kept the advisory business' financial records under lock and key and was "cryptic" about its business.
In 1995, the universally praised Hoop Dreams failed to land a nomination prompting critics and journalists across the country to denounce the category s cryptic voting methods.
Announced May 17 with the cryptic model name PCV-RX490TV, it's a personal computer that lets you watch TV, DVDs and home videos on its monitor.
There's no need to fuss with hexadecimals or other cryptic keys -- assuming we haven't crossed an international border, getting online is as convenient as taking a breath.
In 2010, Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game featuring the voice acting of Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto, was launched by Atari and Cryptic Studios.
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Testing began in January, and by April 30, 000 gamers were playing free of charge, so Cryptic could work out code bugs and make life easier for the fans.
Jim feels half at home there, for what does a boarding school resemble, with its cryptic slang, its awkward alliances, and its arcane regulations, if not the Circus?
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