Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic " influence the sales of games and the stocks of videogame publishers ", citing as example " One company requires game publishers to pay higher royalties if they receive low scores on such sites.

Real estate and gaming became big business throughout Central Nevada, but Wingfield saw the end of the gold and silver mining riches coming and took his bankroll to Reno where he invested heavily in real estate and casinos.

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

In America in 1874 Mary Ewing Outerbridge, a young socialite, returned from Bermuda where she met Major Wingfield.

Located approximately from the city centre, the airport was opened in 1954 to replace Cape Town's previous airport, Wingfield Aerodrome.

Another prominent resident from 1908 was George Wingfield, one of Nevada's entrepreneurs, who built the Goldfield Hotel.

Initial ideas stemmed from one of his short stories, and the screenplay originally went under the name of ' The Gentleman Caller ' ( Williams envisioned Ethel Barrymore and Judy Garland for the roles that eventually became Amanda and Laura Wingfield although Louis B. Mayer insisted on casting Greer Garson as Laura ).

The story is also written from the point of view of narrator Tom Wingfield, and many of his soliloquies from The Glass Menagerie seem lifted straight from this original.

It is joined by another stream before passing to the west of North Wingfield, after which the Red Lead Mill Brook joins from the west.

Sir Richard Wingfield, writing from Oudenarde, 28 October 1521, reported that Knight was to take his place as ambassador to the emperor, but it seems that the emperor objected to his low birth, and expressed a preference for Sir Robert Wingfield.

It has also been argued that Flag editor Martin Wingfield, who published an editorial denouncing notions of merger, sabotaged the move because he bore a grudge against Tyndall and his father-in-law Charles Parker after Wingfiled had attempted, unsuccessfully, to replace the latter as NF organiser in Sussex some years earlier, a struggle that resulted in Wingfield's temporary expulsion from the NF.

The Wingfield Sculls is also raced from Putney to Mortlake.

He assisted George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, to remove the Scottish queen from Wingfield Manor to Tutbury, and for a short time in 1569 he was one of her custodians.

In the Boat Race and Wingfield Sculls the Mile Post is a formal intermediate timing point, and it marks one mile from the finish of the Head of the River Race.

When Vance Wingfield seemingly returned from the grave, and dropped deadly satellites onto major metropolitan areas using equipment supplied by Destro, the team scrambled to find answers.

It derives from ( Ancient Greek meaning " the art of playing ball "), the term originally given to lawn tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield.

Wingfield began marketing his game in the spring of 1874 selling kits that included rubber balls imported from Germany.

Wingfield marketed tennis sets, which included rubber balls imported from Germany.

Wingfield Manor is a deserted ( since the 1770s ) and ruined manor house some 4 miles from the town of Alfreton in the English county of Derbyshire.

The sixth Earl of Shrewsbury was entrusted with the care of Mary, Queen of Scots, when she was detained from 1569 onwards, in his various houses around Derbyshire, Wingfield among them.

While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other was from Sutton in Ashfield ; the ' revolution ' itself started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed died in Wingfield Park.

Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2007, " Mr. Doyle, 36, is now a senior product manager at CNET but he also acts as games editor of Metacritic.

Activists such as Martin Wingfield, Ian Anderson, Joseph Pearce and Tom Acton emerged as the new leading figures within this group and the Flag Group initially grew at a much faster rate than the Official National Front, although this was in part due to the Political Soldiers closing off membership of their wing.

After Jasper's death in 1495-not later than 24 February 1496 ,-Catherine married Richard Wingfield, who outlived her.

Between the second and third seasons, almost the entire on-screen cast other than Julie Stewart were replaced ( although Michael Hogan and Peter Wingfield do appear in the season three 2-part opener Deadly Games ).

Sport historians agree that Wingfield deserves much of the credit for the development of modern tennis.

The modern tennis court owes its design to Major Walter Clopton Wingfield who, in 1873, patented a court much the same as the current one for his stické tennis ( sphairistike ).

* December – Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designs and patents a racquet sport which he calls sphairistike ( Greek σφάίρίστική, " skill at playing at ball "), soon known simply as Stické, for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

* The Wingfield Sculls for the amateur sculling championship of the Thames and Great Britain

* A fictional town in England providing the settings for the TV series A Touch of Frost and the Frost novels of R. D. Wingfield

The search for a suitable site ended on 14 May 1607, when Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, president of the council, chose the Jamestown site as the location for the colony.

He was later found on the seashore near Dover and the body was brought to a Church in Suffolk, possibly Wingfield, for burial, seemingly at the wishes of his wife Alice.

Mr. Wingfield was a handsome man who worked for a telephone company and " fell in love with long distance ", abandoning his family 16 years before the play's action.

One is that Mrs Alice Humphreys, whose husband Edward Wingfield Humphreys owned and had surveyed for sale sections in this new township, was reading George Eliot's novel Middlemarch.

Viscount Powerscourt ( ) is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland, each time for members of the Wingfield family.

It was created first in 1618 for the Chief Governor of Ireland, Richard Wingfield.

It was created a second time in 1665 for Folliott Wingfield.

It was created for a third time in 1744 for Richard Wingfield, along with title of Baron Wingfield, of Wingfield in the County of Wexford.

Also located in Wingfield was a boarding school for girls called Haddon Hall.

In 2009 ATOC ( Train Operators ) announced proposals for reopening a station on the edge of town, to be called ' Clay Cross and North Wingfield '.

The undercroft to the hall, used by the service staff, was lit with slits, similar to design at the contemporary Wingfield Manor.

According to Honor Godfrey, museum curator at Wimbledon, Wingfield " popularized this game enormously.

A train at a snowy North Wingfield, UK, on 1 December 2010.

* February 23 – Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called " sphairistike " which is more commonly called lawn tennis.

* date unknown – Robert Wingfield, English politician ( d. 1454 )

* September 10 – Jamestown President Edward Maria Wingfield is deposed and John Ratcliffe elected.

** Robert Wingfield, English politician ( b. 1403 )

* July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat ( b. c. 1456 )

* Junep – Under the terms of the will of Sir John de Wingfield ( died 1361 ), the church of St Andrew and the college of priests are founded in Wingfield, Suffolk.

Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was understood to be modeled on Rose.

Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was generally seen to represent Williams ' mother, Edwina.

Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to represent Williams himself.

* Digby, George Wingfield.

Barker, aged 20, then spent some time as a porter at Wingfield Hospital ; he became distressed through his contact with polio patients and so opted to take on the persona of " Charlie " so as not to be himself.

* Kohn, S. E., Wingfield, A., Menn, L., Goodglass, H., Gleason, J.

* Goodglass, H. Wingfield, A., Hyde, M. R., Gleason, J.