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The Video Game Industry Is Imploding. What Does It Mean for Hollywood?
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…
SingStar Take That anyone? The strange joy of charity shop video games
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…
My family is coming apart - so it's time for one last video game session | Dominik Diamond
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…
I'm Blown Away' - Hideo Kojima's Backrooms Review Compares Movie to Early Video Games
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…
The 10 Best-Selling Video Games of All Time, Ranked
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…
George R.R. Martin-Approved Cancelled Sci-Fi Show Is Getting A Mass Effect-Style Video Game
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…
Five Venture Capital Trends: Where Gaming Capital Is Moving In 2026
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…
It's Extremely Frustrating Seeing What's Become Of Video Games Journalism
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…
There's a wild new video game based on Uwe Boll's critically-panned Armie Hammer film 'Citizen Vigilante'
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…
I Am Quietly And Perhaps Foolishly Optimistic About The Future Of Video Games Journalism
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…
Sony Says Discontinuation of PlayStation Discs Won't Have Any Negative Impact on Its Business - Now or in the Future
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…
Electronic Arts says it'll be a private company next week
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…
Game Devs Put Together An Itch.io Bundle Of Over 100 Games With Proceeds Going To Help Laid-Off Colleagues - Kotaku
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.
The Wizard' Made Me Long for a Wearable Future
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…
The true cost of Sony's future without physical games
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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