Yet, either way, the Mavericks had something to do with the Spurs' demise in Game 5 on Tuesday night.
The Red Sox cannot fathom such an outcome, even after a messy inning led to their demise in Game 2. "It's baseball; things are going to happen," shortstop Stephen Drew said.
While the games' computer-generated violence among comic-book-style figures can't approach the realistic blood and gore confronted by human actors in popular films like "Scream 3," it does push computer animation to new heights -- or depths, depending on your perspective -- in rendering the demise of game characters.
You can attribute its lack of success to a number of factors – a highish price in a recessionary time (although it's still less than half the price of an iPad); the demise of GAME lessening hands-on opportunities; too close a resemblance to the vastly inferior PSP; uncharacteristically ineffective marketing by Sony; or the lack of truly compelling games.
Long before the days of grown men and women weeping openly at the demise of Game of Thrones lothario Jon Snow, the "Save Carson Beckett" campaign generated global news coverage.
D8 Neediest Cases D7 SPORTS S1-7 GooDemiseGames' Demise The games, conceived by Ted Turner in the 1980's as an alternative to the boycott-plagued Olympics, were discontinued, having lost millions of dollars as well as political relevancy.
However, it hopes the computer games business will be buoyed by market share gains following the demise of rival Game.
Activision's shares tumbled after the announcement, but investors appeared more concerned with the company's disappointing revenue forecast than the demise of the game.
People have long predicted the demise of the game that asks punters to pick eight score draws from the fixture list and was once the weekly folly of a third of this country's adult population.
It was a relief, too, not to have to seem fascinated as Beano lamented the unsustainable growth of the human population and the demise of Kenyan game, all the while having to pretend that she hadn't heard variations on this same dirge dozens of times in a mere three weeks.
