Video Games
Netflix Plans Sonic the Hedgehog, ‘Squid Game’ Video Games As It Expands Slate to Familiar IP
Netflix is not slowing down on its video game ambitions, leaning on some key intellectual property to help it grow the business. The company on Wednesday published a post looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, and announcing a number of new titles coming to the platform. Among the games in the works are a new […]
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E3 Shuts Down After Two-Decade Run as Video Game Industry’s Biggest Convention
It’s official: E3 has been shut down as the video game industry’s biggest convention and media platform for good. “After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye. Thanks for the memories,” the Entertainment Software Association, the video game trade association, said on its […]
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“Pseudo-Marxist Media Guerrilla” Group Total Refusal to Make Feature Film Debut With ‘Money Is a Form of Speech’ (Exclusive)
Total Refusal, an avant-garde art collective that repurposes video games into critiques of capitalism, is set to make its first full-length feature film, a “post-apocalyptic political musical” called Money Is a Form of Speech. The project, which Total Refusal is producing together with Vienna-based film group Glitter & Doom — the team behind Achmed Abdel-Salam’s German-language […]
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Kobe Bryant Immortalized in ‘NBA2K24’ Release and It’s on Sale for Black Friday: Here’s Where to Get the Game Online
Kobe Bryant’s legacy is being remembered in a special edition of NBA2K24, the best-selling basketball game for Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox. For Black Friday, the NBA 2K24 Kobe Bryant Edition for PS5 and Xbox Series X is on sale, apiece, for $30, or half off, at Amazon, as the latest release in the annual video […]
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Microsoft Closes $69B Acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Creating Video Game Powerhouse
Software and technology giant Microsoft has reached the end of a long and rocky road, closing its $68.7 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard, led by CEO Bobby Kotick, on Friday, 21 months after it had unveiled the mega-deal. Activision unveiled the close of the transaction in a regulatory filing early on Friday. […]
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Insomniac’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ Aims to Swing to New Heights
In 2018, just months before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse redefined what a Spider-Man story could look like on the big screen, the team at Insomniac and PlayStation unleashed their own game-changing iteration. Spider-Man became the definitive Spidey video game, with Spider-Man: Miles Morales arriving in 2020. Combined, they have sold more than 33 million copies. […]
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Nintendo’s ‘Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ Takes Top Prize at 2023 Gamescom Awards
Nintendo was the big winner of this year’s Gamescom, the international video game conference that wrapped up in Cologne, Germany, on Sunday. Nintendo Switch game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom picked up multiple awards, including for best gameplay, best audio and the honor of most epic title at this year’s event. Already […]
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Gamescom: ‘Alan Wake 2’ Gets a Nightmarish Trailer
Alan Wake shows itself to be scarier than ever in the sequel Alan Wake 2. During what was dubbed Opening Night Live at big gaming conference Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, hosted by journalist Geoff Keighley, the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment unveiled a trailer featuring some gameplay snippets from the sequel to a horror video game […]
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Gamescom Trailer Reveal: Space Opera ‘Fort Solis’ Stars Troy Baker, the Voice of Joel in ‘The Last of Us’
The adrenaline-pumping space opera Fort Solis was shown off in a trailer at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. The event, which runs through Sunday, dubs itself “the world’s largest event for computer and video games and Europe’s most comprehensive business platform for the games industry” and always showcases new releases. Fort Solis, available now and developed […]
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Gamescom: New Trailer for ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’ Revealed
A new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Mirage debuted at Gamescom in Cologne on Wednesday, taking gamers on a tour through medieval Baghdad. Developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux, the new chapter in the Assassin saga was shown during the influential German video game convention, and will launch on PC, PlayStation and Xbox on Oct. 5, 2023. The […]
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‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’ Art Director on Re-creating Ninth-Century Baghdad for the New Game
The 55-year-old comic artist Jean-Luc Sala is at the helm of the art department of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the new installment of the blockbuster video game franchise, this time set in Baghdad in the ninth century, during the city’s Golden Age. “To rebuild the city, we gathered writings of the scholars of that time,” Ubisoft […]
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Charles Martinet, Longtime Voice of Mario, Retires: “You Are All Numba One in My Heart!”
Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario since Super Mario 64, is retiring from portraying the character and starting a new chapter with the video game company. “Charles is now moving into the brand-new role of Mario Ambassador,” Nintendo said in a statement released on Twitter. “With this transition, he will be stepping back from recording […]
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