Nostalgia was high earlier this week when Paramount released the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of the classic Sega video game Sonic the Hedgehog. It looked fun, but the Internet had one problem: the teeth of the titular character. As soon as the trailer dropped fans of the video game seemed to overlook…

The culmination of season eight on Fortnite saw a massive volcano eruption take out one of the online game’s most iconic locations. The Saturday culmination of season eight saw the volcano destroy Tilted Towers, which has been a centerpiece of the game for areas and one of its busiest locations. Other parts of the…

EXCLUSIVE: F. Gary Gray is developing to direct a film based on the hit action video game Saints Row. Greg Russo, who’s scripting the Mortal Kombat reboot at Warner Bros, is writing. Gray, who followed Straight Outta Compton with The Fate of the Furious, just completed Men In Black: International, which stars Chris…

Who knew that Twitch was game for original scripted programming? The online social video service is a natural destination for gamers who stream live content of their conquests and competitions but now the apparatus (and its live audience) are also being used by a series called Artificial to create meta entertainment…

Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard said it is laying off several hundred workers — about 8% of its total workforce of 9,600 — in a restructuring that will also boost the number of game developers by 20% during 2019. Shares in the Santa Monica-based maker of Call of Duty gained 4% in after-hours trading following…

Between Saving Private Ryan and Ready Player One—the critically acclaimed adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel—VFX supervisor Roger Guyett has been along for the ride on two of the most demanding projects of Steven Spielberg's career. An entirely different animal than the former picture—a 1998 war drama which won…

EXCLUSIVE: F. Gary Gray's Fenix Studios has optioned rights to Echo, the third-person sci-fi video game, with the Straight Outta Compton and Men In Black: International helmer planning to turn it into a feature film. John Wick creator-writer Derek Kolstad is aboard to adapt the screenplay. Gray will produce (not…

Fortnite, already a pop culture phenomenon, just achieved a business milestone. The free-to-play title generated the most annual revenue of any game in history, raking in $2.4 billion in 2018, according to estimates from Nielsen’s SuperData. The firm said Fortnite’s multi-platform release on PC, console and mobile…

Amazon is developing a streaming service for video games, a development that could well signal the beginning of the end of game consoles. The streaming service would eliminate the need for gamers to purchase expensive video game consoles or high-end computers to run titles. Instead, the games would run on powerful…

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins wracked up 226.85 million streams via Twitch this year, more than doubling his nearest competitor and aggregating more views than the second and third-place finishers combined. TEO Analytics and esportsobserver calculated the total viewing hours across the top ten Twitch channels for the entire…

Winners of the first Gamers' Choice Awards were announced today on a CBS broadcast, led by gamer Ninja copping three honors. KISS kicked off the show with an homage to the creative genius of comics creator Stan Lee, who is credited with laying the foundation for many games and gaming characters. The top gamers and…

First he was suspended by the National Football League. Then he was dismissed by his team, the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, running back Kareem Hunt may have suffered the unkindest cut of all – he’s been removed from Madden NFL ’19 by EA Sports. The video game company told CNN via email that Hunt will be removed from…