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theverge.com - Jay Peters - A great new video game movie
A great new video game movie
The Verge

Plus, in this week's Installer: Valve's Steam Frame, Nintendo's expansive new Fire Emblem, Fujifilm's tiny new camera, and more. Plus, in this week's Installer: Valve's Steam Frame, Nintendo's expansive new Fire Emblem, Fujifilm's…

eurogamer.net - Vikki Blake - Activision says video game cheating has grown into a $8.5 billion a year global industry
Activision says video game cheating has grown into a $8.5 billion a year global industry
Eurogamer.net

Activision has published a breakdown of the numbers behind cheating in its games, claiming cheating is big business, generating about £6.3 billion - $8.5bn - every year in account sales, boosting, and spoofing services. In a blog posted on…

euronews.com - Cristian Caraballo - Accessibility in video games and board games: the game nobody wants to miss
Accessibility in video games and board games: the game nobody wants to miss
Euronews.com

When it's his turn to draw a card, Cristian M. Amores doesn't look at anything: he points his iPhone camera at a QR code stuck to the sleeve and waits for VoiceOver to tell him what he has just drawn. He is blind and, since late 2020, has been…

polygon.com - Jason Venter - This 40-Year-Old Video Game Is Somehow More Fun Than Ever
This 40-Year-Old Video Game Is Somehow More Fun Than Ever
Polygon.com

There's something about Mario Bros. When people mention Mario today, they usually have his “super” adventures in mind, courtesy of 1985's Super Mario Bros. But before he started knocking around turtles and other nasties in a fantasy…

1428elm.com - William Jones - Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is a first of its kind for video game movies
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is a first of its kind for video game movies
FanSided

Over the years, video game movies have gotten a bum rap, and it isn't exactly difficult to understand why that is. The vast majority of attempts to adapt a video game to the big screen have been at best disappointing and at worst outright abysmal.

polygon.com - Tomas Franzese - Resident Evil Shows R-Rated Video Game Movies Can Still Do Well At The Box Office
Resident Evil Shows R-Rated Video Game Movies Can Still Do Well At The Box Office
Polygon.com

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil had a great opening weekend, grossing $60 million over its first three days in theaters. It's shaping up to be a box office success, proving that in this modern era of hit video game film adaptations, kids' movies…

gamerant.com - LB Beistad - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Villain Proves Hollywood Belongs in Video Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Villain Proves Hollywood Belongs in Video Games
GameRant

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is quickly drawing closer, and the game's main villain has been revealed, alongside the actor who will be portraying him. The mysterious antagonist that serves as the game's main adversary is known as The Archer and…

collider.com - Eddie Possehl - 9 Sci-Fi Video Games So Good, Hollywood Needs to Adapt Them Now
9 Sci-Fi Video Games So Good, Hollywood Needs to Adapt Them Now
Collider

Science fiction video games have always been some of the most popular in the medium, and for very good reason. The worlds they bring to life and let players explore are gorgeous, intriguing, and epic. The characters within said worlds can be truly…

totalprosports.com - Darrelle Lincoln - NFL Fans Are Fuming Over Nikki Glaser's SNF Intro For Chiefs-Colts Game [VIDEO]
NFL Fans Are Fuming Over Nikki Glaser's SNF Intro For Chiefs-Colts Game [VIDEO]
TotalProSports

Comedian and self-proclaimed Kansas City Chiefs superfan Nikki Glaser starred in a viral introductory hype video for NBC's Sunday Night Football ahead of the matchup between the Chiefs and the Indianapolis Colts. The promotional video leaned…

footballleagueworld.co.uk - James Pennington - A video game completely changed one Sheffield United player's career
A video game completely changed one Sheffield United player's career
Football League World

Ben Brereton Diaz has been a staple of the Championship for more or less the past eight years, but his career in professional football is truly one of a kind. Brereton Diaz returned to Sheffield United this summer on loan from Southampton, having…

totalprosports.com - Arnab Mondal - Inches From Deadly Disaster As Helicopter Nearly Crashes Into ESPN Drone During Ole Miss-LSU Game [VIDEO]
Inches From Deadly Disaster As Helicopter Nearly Crashes Into ESPN Drone During Ole Miss-LSU Game [VIDEO]
TotalProSports

College football fans got a real scare before Saturday night's Ole Miss-LSU game when a helicopter seemed to fly dangerously close to an ESPN camera drone over the stadium in Oxford, Mississippi. ESPN was using the drone to get aerial views of the…

gizmodo.com - Wes Davis - Aqara Multi-Sensor FP400 Review: Not Quite the mmWave of the Future
Aqara Multi-Sensor FP400 Review: Not Quite the mmWave of the Future
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

One of the promises of the smart home is total automation that lets your body be a trigger for getting things done. Lights that illuminate when you enter a room and reliably blink off when you leave, perhaps, or a stereo that only turns on when you…

techradar.com - Rob Dwiar - Take our A Plague Tale quiz to test your knowledge of one of the best - and bleakest - trilogies of recent years
Take our A Plague Tale quiz to test your knowledge of one of the best - and bleakest - trilogies of recent years
TechRadar

The A Plague Tale series has become one of the finest in video games since the first game, A Plague Tale: Innocence, released back in 2019. Its historical background, immersive and deeply compelling yet bleak and miserable narratives, as well as…

hypebeast.com - Hypebeast Newsroom - Alan Ritchson Is in Talks to Star as the Lead in Sony's 'Helldivers' Feature Film
Alan Ritchson Is in Talks to Star as the Lead in Sony's 'Helldivers' Feature Film
Hypebeast

1 of 2 Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images For Amazon 2 of 2 Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images For Amazon Alan Ritchson is currently in ongoing negotiations to replace Jason Momoa as the lead in the upcoming 'Helldivers' movie The feature film adaptation will be…

foxnews.com - Daniel Maritz - Fantasy doesn't need another 'Game of Thrones.' It needs what Tolkien understood
Fantasy doesn't need another 'Game of Thrones.' It needs what Tolkien understood
Fox News

Tales of dragons, noble kings, evil empires, heroic quests and the battle between light and darkness have captured imaginations across cultures for years. We're drawn to the adventure of legends and lore because something deep inside us longs to be…

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