Sentence examples for gaming pieces from inspiring English sources
Ancient gaming pieces are found along with skeletons of hundreds of rats.
Faience was much used, too, for gaming pieces, scarabs, weights, amulets, votive figures and jewelry.
The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked exhibition in Edinburgh brings together the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland's collections of the Lewis Chessmen – a set of medieval gaming pieces, originating most likely from Trondheim in the 12th or 13th century, which were discovered on the Hebridean island of Lewis sometime between 1780 and 1831.
Amongst the most impressive of these is the Scar boat burial, on Orkney, which contained an elaborate sword, quiver with arrows, a brooch, bone comb, gaming pieces and the Scar Dragon Plaque, made from whalebone, most of which were probably made in Scandinavia.
The gaming piece looks to be something that could offer a considerable advantage over the platforms of its rivals, and perhaps put Amazon into more direct competition with Steam, as well as major game console makers.
Increasing prosperity during the 12th century resulted in greater production of secular art; many carved ivory objects such as gaming-pieces, combs, and small religious figures have survived.
It's an intricate piece of gaming clockwork, where a breakdown in one part of the mechanism can spell disaster for the whole crew.
In a press release touting the sales numbers, Microsoft claims U.S. consumers alone have spent $14.5 billion across all categories on Xbox 360 at retail, and consumers worldwide have downloaded close to 1 billion pieces of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox LIVE Marketplace to date.
And that, honestly, is a tragedy — it's a fantastic piece of gaming history that I believe really helped raise the bar for what games on the iPhone needed to look like and feel like.
