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2026's Most Surprising Video Game Movie Hit Is Quietly Changing The Industry

Iron Lung, Markiplier's wildly successful self-distributed indie horror movie, has a plan for home release that could drastically shake up the industry.

Inverse

How Bafta helped elevate the video game to a respected art form worthy of celebration

To receive a nomination at the Bafta Game Awards is to be placed amongst the very best video games developed each year. This year’s ceremony saw 42 games nominated, demonstrating a wide range of gaming excellence. Among the nominees were designers, voice actors and composers, each contributing to the validation…

The Conversation

Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

A commuter’s entrapment in an Escher-esque subway station provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based

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Gaming giants face big fines for exposing kids to harm

Video game platforms have been told to show how they are preventing Australian children from being groomed and radicalised or risk heavy fines.

AAP

Former GTA lead Dan Houser's new "AAA story-driven open world video game" and animated series unveils its main cast, featuring stars of 30 Rock and Billions

More is coming next month

GamesRadar

Windrose players thank the devs for avoiding item durability, a divisive survival game feature: "Possibly the most un-fun mechanic in any video game"

"Such a breath of fresh air"

GamesRadar

GameStop Stock Edges Higher as Power Packs Digital Card Launch Gains Traction

GameStop Corp. shares rose modestly in early trading Tuesday, climbing to $25.21 as the video game retailer continued to draw attention following its recent launch of Power Packs, a digital trading card platform that lets collectors buy packs to unlock real PSA-graded physical cards stored securely in a vault.

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Cast of major new video game film adaptation announced

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The Independent UK

Despite using Unreal Engine 5, the Rogue Trooper movie team wanted to avoid an "uncanny-valley video game aesthetic"

Rogue Trooper may share technology with video games, but its producer didn't want it to look like a video game movie

Total Film

20 Years Ago, One Horror Movie Was Shockingly Faithful To Its Gaming Inspiration

2006's Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans, was arguably the first video game adaptation that didn't try to outsmart what made the original work.

Inverse

Starfield "was the best-selling video game of the week" in US for first time in nearly 3 years, reports analyst, despite Bethesda's rough PS5 port of the RPG

Some good news for a change

GamesRadar

Woman, 91, found playing video games after missing welfare check

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The Independent UK

91-year-old woman found safe after alert triggers police welfare check: ‘She’s playing video games in her bedroom’

An elderly woman from Westlake, Ohio, gave officers a ‘good laugh’ when they went to her home to check in on her

The Independent UK

Listen to Lana Del Rey’s James Bond theme for ‘007: First Light’ video game

Lana Del Rey previously recorded a song for the film 'Spectre' but the track was rejected by the Bond producers. Second time lucky...

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Evening Standard

Video Games: Lana Del Rey releases James Bond computer game theme

It comes after Del Rey revealed she had a Bond film theme rejected.

The Conversation

The transactional — and optimizable — connections of ‘cozy video games’

Cozy is a vibe. So much so that even video games have been getting cozy.

The Conversation

Health information delivered as a video game can bridge the communication gap between patients and providers

Imagine you and your partner are sitting in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, waiting for your appointment to get birth control – and instead of calculating how many other people will be called before you, or perusing old magazines, a nurse hands you a digital tablet and encourages…

Fortune

This CEO pirated video games as a teen and became a hacker for the Air Force. Now he’s built a $3 billion cyber firm

Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan bootstrapped his way from online hacker forums to a $3 billion valuation—without an Ivy League degree.

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Destructoid

The strangest endings in video games, ranked

That's one way to leave a lasting impression...

The Guardian - UK

‘Seeking connection’: the video game where players stopped shooting and started talking

In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up – a phenomenon that’s intriguing game developers and psychologists alike

GamesRadar

Take-Two stock jumps $1 billion after GTA leak as investors learn Rockstar really is making that much money off GTA Online

Just imagine what these share prices would look like if they realized AI can't yet generate whole video games

The Mary Sue

Sony at CinemaCon: Everything We Learned From the Presentation

The Mary Sue is here soaking up the Las Vegas sun, and day one of CinemaCon certainly opened with a bang this year. Iconic franchises such as Insidious and Jumanji are getting mew installments, and Sony has a whole slate of new video game adaptations in the pipeline. Though there…

What Hi-Fi?

I’ve started collecting vinyl records of this unusual music genre – and it’s been a lot more rewarding

More consistent quality and beautiful packaging than new music pressings

Total Film

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now the third-highest-grossing video game movie of all time, as it crosses half a billion dollars at the box office

It's-a me, a box office smash!

Total Film

Exit 8 becomes one of the highest-rated video game movies ever with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

Exit 8 is in theaters now

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