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thewrap.com - Kayla Cobb - The Video Game Industry Is Imploding. What Does It Mean for Hollywood?
The Video Game Industry Is Imploding. What Does It Mean for Hollywood?
TheWrap

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Last spring, theaters were full of audiences screaming “chicken jockey!” alongside Jack Black as “A Minecraft Movie” soared to become the fifth highest-grossing movie of…

theguardian.com - Keith Stuart - SingStar Take That anyone? The strange joy of charity shop video games
SingStar Take That anyone? The strange joy of charity shop video games
The Guardian

As an eternally optimistic charity shop fan, I hold on to the fantasy that one day I'll walk into my local Oxfam and find a pristine copy of the Sega Saturn shooter Burning Rangers for £1.50. Or perhaps a box full of old Neo Geo carts for a…

theguardian.com - Dominik Diamond - My family is coming apart - so it's time for one last video game session | Dominik Diamond
My family is coming apart - so it's time for one last video game session | Dominik Diamond
The Guardian

It is the end of an era for the Diamond family. For 20 years, there have been five of us living together. It has not been easy. Militant vegan daughters, sons who have inherited Scottish tempers, and a youngest child who attracts trouble like an…

ign.com - Virginia Glaze - I'm Blown Away' - Hideo Kojima's Backrooms Review Compares Movie to Early Video Games
I'm Blown Away' - Hideo Kojima's Backrooms Review Compares Movie to Early Video Games
IGN

Hideo Kojima had high praise for Kane Parsons' Backrooms, remarking on how the film reminded him of the maze-like maps and polygonal look of early video games. 21-year-old Kane Parsons made a strong directorial debut with Backrooms, which released…

collider.com - Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck - The 10 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time, Ranked
The 10 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time, Ranked
Collider

Video games are the most popular form of media right now, with billions of players worldwide enjoying franchises such as The Legend of Zelda or stand-alone titles like Elden Ring. As the biggest medium right now, sales are through the roof, and…

screenrant.com - Nicholas Becher - George R.R. Martin-Approved Cancelled Sci-Fi Show Is Getting A Mass Effect-Style Video Game
George R.R. Martin-Approved Cancelled Sci-Fi Show Is Getting A Mass Effect-Style Video Game
ScreenRant

It's no secret that George R.R. Martin is a massive sci-fi fan, with a career that extends well beyond the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy universe that catapulted him into mega-stardom. Long before Game of Thrones, Martin built a reputation through…

forbes.com - Roman Gurskiy - Five Venture Capital Trends: Where Gaming Capital Is Moving In 2026
Five Venture Capital Trends: Where Gaming Capital Is Moving In 2026
Forbes

Roman Gurskiy is Managing Director of GEM Capital, a leading Cyprus-based investment firm with a focus on game studios. After a three-year period of stagnation in venture capital investment, the market began to recover in 2025. According to…

aftermath.site - Luke Plunkett - It's Extremely Frustrating Seeing What's Become Of Video Games Journalism
It's Extremely Frustrating Seeing What's Become Of Video Games Journalism
Aftermath

I know we've covered some pretty big-picture stuff here so far on Hater Week, but for this gripe in particular I wanted to talk about something a bit more personal. Namely, how much I hate what my job–a video game journalist, critic…

pagesix.com - Katcy Stephan - There's a wild new video game based on Uwe Boll's critically-panned Armie Hammer film 'Citizen Vigilante'
There's a wild new video game based on Uwe Boll's critically-panned Armie Hammer film 'Citizen Vigilante'
Page Six

By now, you've likely heard of the numerous controversies surrounding German director Uwe Boll 's latest film, “Citizen Vigilante.” To recap: The film stars disgraced actor Armie Hammer (in what was poised to be his big Hollywood…

aftermath.site - Luke Plunkett - I Am Quietly And Perhaps Foolishly Optimistic About The Future Of Video Games Journalism
I Am Quietly And Perhaps Foolishly Optimistic About The Future Of Video Games Journalism
Aftermath

This job isn't perfect–what job is–but everything bad I have to say about it (and that is a lot) is based mostly on me standing in 2026 and looking back at everything I've lost, at everything the field of games media has had done to…

ign.com - Wesley Yin-Poole - Sony Says Discontinuation of PlayStation Discs Won't Have Any Negative Impact on Its Business - Now or in the Future
Sony Says Discontinuation of PlayStation Discs Won't Have Any Negative Impact on Its Business - Now or in the Future
IGN

Sony's controversial decision to discontinue PlayStation discs is not having any impact on its business now, and it doesn't see any negative impact in the future, either. Speaking during an investor-focused Q&A following its first quarter financial…

engadget.com - Steve Dent - Electronic Arts says it'll be a private company next week
Electronic Arts says it'll be a private company next week
Engadget

Electronic Arts will close its $55 billion deal to go private by August 4 next week, the company announced in an 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission filing seen by Variety. EA revealed last year that it was being acquired by the Saudi Arabia…

kotaku.com - Ash Parrish - Game Devs Put Together An Itch.io Bundle Of Over 100 Games With Proceeds Going To Help Laid-Off Colleagues - Kotaku
Game Devs Put Together An Itch.io Bundle Of Over 100 Games With Proceeds Going To Help Laid-Off Colleagues - Kotaku
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More

An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis.

gizmodo.com - John Loeffler - The Wizard' Made Me Long for a Wearable Future
The Wizard' Made Me Long for a Wearable Future
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

The Power Glove's one-minute-plus cameo in 1989's The Wizard wasn't the first time wearable tech made a splash in pop culture, but it's the one that got me and countless others hooked on wearables nearly two decades before we ever bought our first…

theweek.com - Theara Coleman, The Week US - The true cost of Sony's future without physical games
The true cost of Sony's future without physical games
The Week

Like all technology, video games have evolved over the years and for the most part, those advancements have been welcomed. But Sony's recent announcement that it will cease producing physical video games has rattled fans, particularly those who…

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