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The big picture: the neon allure of Los Angeles’s video game bars

Franck Bohbot’s photographs of the city’s gaming spots depict a world of escapism familiar from American movies and art

The Guardian - UK

‘The Super Mario Bros.’ is now highest-grossing video game adaptation with $500 million

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continues to gobble power-ups and records as it surpassed $500 million in global box office sales this week, according to reports.

Los Angeles Times

Super Mario Bros. Movie is officially the biggest video game movie ever

Mario has pulled in over $500 million globally

Total Film

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Pentagon leaks: how Discord video game chat platform landed in the spotlight

Users explain the way top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the internet unnoticed

The Guardian - UK

New this week: 'Judy Blume,' Rodrigo y Gabriela, Minecraft

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from The Heavy and Rodrigo y Gabriela, a new Judy Blume bio-documentary and video games set in the Minecraft and Dead Island universes

The Independent UK

A Monster Hunter World Iceborne board game is on the way, Clutch Claws included

The Monster Hunter World Iceborne expansion is getting a board game from Steamforged, the publisher behind video game adaptations like Resident Evil and Sea of Thieves

GamesRadar

Review: Victoria 3 Lacks Spontaneous Order

The video game is a 100-year simulation of the Victorian era where the player has centralized control over the government of their chosen country.

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The US government just awarded Super Mario Bros. a significant honor

The Super Mario Bros. theme is the first video game song inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry

USA Today Sports Media Group

Super Mario theme to be first video game music entered into US Library of Congress

The track is from 1985’s Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Evening Standard

Gran Turismo: release date, cast, trailer and everything you need to know

Gran Turismo is the latest video game adaptation hitting the big screen. Here's what we know about the film right now.

WhatToWatch

Super Mario theme becomes first piece of game music inducted into Library of Congress

It's taken nearly 30 years for the track to make it

GamesRadar

5 Years Ago, The Rock Made an Underrated Sci-Fi Movie — And Defied a Hollywood Trend

'Rampage' wasn't great, but it moved video game movies in the right direction.

Inverse

NAMM 2023: Polyend announces Tracker Mini, and it looks like a 'best in show' contender

Handheld video game-style device is smaller and lighter than the original Tracker but somehow boasts more features

MusicRadar

Take-Two Seconds to Consider Selling This Video Game Stock

Well-known video game company Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) reported losses and narrowed next year's booking projections amid lingering macroeconomic headwinds and declining consumer spending. So, avoiding this fundamentally weak stock might be a wise idea. Keep reading….

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The Guardian - UK

Pushing Buttons: The Super Mario Bros Movie is just fine – but what else did you expect?

In this week’s newsletter: After decades of offensively terrible video game adaptations, I’m more than happy to settle for one that is simply OK

The Guardian - UK

Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine

Analysis suggests top-secret documents were first shared on closed gamer chatrooms hosted by Discord

Asharq Al-Awsat

South Korea Fines Google $32 Mln for Blocking Games on Competing Platform

South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet Inc's Google 42.1 billion won ($31.88 million) for blocking the release of mobile video games on a competitor's platform. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday that Google bolstered its market dominance, and hurt local app market One Store's revenue and…

Los Angeles Times

'Super Mario Bros. Movie' composer levels up: 'I want this score to be my 'E.T.''

LOS ANGELES — One hundred and thirty. That's the minimum number of references to the various "Mario"-branded video games that "Super Mario Bros. Movie" composer Brian Tyler estimates he included in his score for the film.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Is a Box Office Smash

Audiences said let’s go to the movie theater for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” this weekend. The animated offering from Universal and Illumination powered up with $204.6 million in its first five days in 4,343 North American theaters, including $146.4 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday.…

Cinemablend

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is 2023's Latest Record-Breaker As The Video Game Blockbuster Crushes At The Weekend Box Office

Launching in theaters this past Wednesday, The Super Mario Bros. Movie had one of the all-time biggest debuts for an animated film at the box office.

Cinemablend

Fans Have Complained About Chris Pratt's Mario Voice. He Admits At One Point He Could Have Sounded Like Tony Soprano

Chris Pratt reveals how his “Mario voice” started very Tony Soprano-like before producers stepped in.

Tribune News Service

Vahe Gregorian: ‘It’s not just a video game’: Negro Leagues baseball comes alive in ‘MLB The Show 23’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last home video game Bob Kendrick played with any regularity was via Atari, circa the Jurassic Era of the genre in the late 1970s/early ‘80s.

France 24

Truth or Fake 2023: image verification in the age of AI and video games

For France's Press and Media in Schools Week 2023, France 24’s Observers team, specialised in debunking misinformation, has produced a new annual edition of "Truth or Fake", a short programme giving tips on how to disentangle fact from fiction.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

‘The right to miss’: How Dr. J changed video-game history and paved the way for Madden

One in a series of stories remembering the 1982-83 76ers, one of the NBA’s best teams ever.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Jack Black wants a Red Dead Redemption movie or TV series next

Mario movie star Jack Black hoped someone makes a Red Dead Redemption movie, as video game adaptations prove more popular than ever

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