13 h. ago ‘Unfilmable’ video game movie announced from director of 'best war movie ever'

One of the best-selling games in history is finally getting the live-action film adaptation fans have been yearning for

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16 h. ago Alex Garland set to direct huge video game adaptation for A24

Game’s worldbuilding was written by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin

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43 h. ago Super Mario fans gobsmacked after realising how video game legend got his name

Nintendo's mascot is one of the most iconic video game characters of all time, but fans have only just discovered the unusual backstory behind Super Mario's name

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48 h. ago The Last of Us showrunner teases potential third video game instalment

‘If we were ever to come back to it, I want to make sure it’s a story worthy of The Last of Us’ says Neil Druckmann

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48 h. ago Super Mario fans just realising where iconic character got his name

Super Mario is one of the most popular gaming franchises in the world, and the titular star, Mario, is a video game icon - but do you know where the character got his name?

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49 h. ago ‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state The Cannes film festival isn’t typically associated with video games, but this year it’s playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio iNK Stories (creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about a photojournalist in Iran) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it’s been turning heads with its eye-catching translocation of Macbeth to modern-day Iran.“It’s been such an incredible coup to have it as the first video game experience at Cannes,” says iNK Stories co-founder Vassiliki Khonsari. “People have gone in saying, I’m not familiar playing games, so I may just try it out for five minutes. [ ] But then once they’re in, there is this growing sense of empowerment that people from the film world are feeling.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Last of Us recap: season two, episode six – many happy returns (of Joel)

Well, that didn’t suck! This birthday flashback episode had enough Pedro Pascal to feel like a glorious gift only to end up breaking our hearts over and overThis article contains spoilers for the The Last of Us season two. Please do not read unless you have seen episodes one to six.Back in early 2023 The Last of Us launched to admiring reviews and millions of viewers around the world. When it was quickly renewed for a second season there was speculation about how showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann would approach the task. Would they skip straight to adapting the second (and so far final) video game, which picks up the action five years after the original? Or would they take a more scenic route, inventing new post-apocalyptic adventures for surrogate father-daughter duo Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to have during that considerable time gap? It would certainly be an easy way to eke another lucrative season or three out of the source material. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago GTA 6 boss makes staggering gaming admission following Rockstar delay confirmation

The CEO of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Game's parent company Take-Two Interactive has confirmed he doesn't play video games, despite the company preparing to launch possibly the biggest game of all time

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5 d. ago BREAKING: Major hunt launched for boy, 9, who vanished wearing Minecraft t

Police search teams said nine-year-old Jacub was last seen in Sandwell, in the West Midlands, wearing the video game shirt on top of a black tracksuit at around 5am today

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5 d. ago Major hunt launched for boy, 9, who vanished wearing Minecraft t

Police search teams said nine-year-old Jacub was last seen in Sandwell, in the West Midlands, wearing the video game shirt on top of a black tracksuit at around 5am today

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7 d. ago New video game is 'journey through Scots folklore' where players can pick up Gaelic

The video game, developed in Edinburgh, helps gamers practice what was once Scotland's primary language

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7 d. ago Fortnite unavailable on iPhones globally after Apple rejects App Store release

Latest twist in a contest between iPhone maker and Epic Games over payments for hit game on Apple devicesEpic Games says Fortnite is now unavailable on iPhones and iPads globally because Apple blocked a bid to release the popular video game in the App Store in the US and Europe.“Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the US App Store or to the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union,” the X account for Fortnite posted early Friday – claiming that Apple’s move would now prevent the game’s iOS availability around the world. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Colts apologize to Tyreek Hill for video mocking violent police stop

Video was part of campaign announcing NFL scheduleDolphins receiver was slammed to ground by policeThe Indianapolis Colts have apologized for a video announcing their schedule for the upcoming NFL season.The Colts’ video was a spoof of the video game Minecraft, and in a section depicting their season-opener against the Dolphins they mocked Miami receiver Tyreek Hill. A dolphin with Hill’s No 10 jersey is seen swimming before being stopped by a Coast Guard boat, an apparent reference to the player’s traffic stop before the opening game of last season. The arrest provoked controversy after officers forcibly removed Hill from his car and threw him to the ground. Hill later said the officers “beat the dog out of me” during the stop. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK's longest road which covers 410 miles from London to Scotland

The A1 is the longest road in the UK, spanning around 410 miles from London to Edinburgh in Scotland, and passing through a total of 17 counties on its journey

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1 week ago Sony's profits rises on robust performance for music, movies and games

Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony is reporting an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March thanks to the robust performance of its music and video-game operations

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1 week ago The 20 most valuable retro video games you might own, including Nintendo 64 game worth nearly £4,000

Your old video games could be worth thousands of pounds - even if they’re unsealed

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2 w. ago Awful video shows how Texas schoolboy ended up on life support while playing viral 'senior assassin' game

Isaac Leal, 17, hopped on the back of a classmate's car while playing 'senior assassins' - a popular high school tradition where kids have to catch their pals and shoot them with water guns.

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2 w. ago Nintendo promises stronger results with Switch 2 console going on sale in June

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo has reported a 43% decline in profit for the fiscal year through March, but promised a turnaround as its Switch console upgrade goes on sale in June

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2 w. ago Top baby names inspired by video game characters leading searches and beating traditional names

Parents are turning to video games to find the perfect names for their little ones, with experts noting a number of intriguing patterns when it comes to both boys and girls

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2 w. ago Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block

Arcade Crew/Sleepy Mill Studio; PCBuild a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by combinationThe indie video game scene is currently dominated by two unassailable genre titans: the rogue-like and the deck-builder. The first is a type of action adventure in which players explore procedurally generated landscapes, where they battle enemies, level up and then die – whereupon they start all over again from scratch. The latter is about building decks of collectible cards (think Pokémon or Magic: The Gathering, but digital) and fighting with them. Titles that combine both in interesting ways – such as Balatro and Slay the Spire – can become huge crossover hits. But the market is getting saturated and so developers are having to find new genres to mix into this potent game design cocktail.Hence Drop Duchy, a game that attempts...

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