In 2016, the Screen Actors’ Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists members had a few demands for the video game industry. They were after residual payments, more transparency about the games that they were breathing life into and some protection for their actual voices. You know, the bits of audio organic matter that their entire career is built around. Can you imagine what a throat must feel like after a day f voicing Popeye? Madness.

Unless Google Translate lied to me, this is how you write “Stupid film critics know nothing” in Chinese: “愚蠢的影評人什麼都不知道”. If you’re wondering about the significance of this language lesson, it’s because that is probably a phrase being written/said all through China lately as Duncan Jones’ Warcraft has gone on to break box office records in the Asian market despite mixed to poor reviews from …

So it appears that I had every right to be worried about Warcraft. The first batch of reviews for director Duncan Jones’ big budget feature film adaptation of Blizzard’s legendary video game franchise have started trickling in this morning, and it’s not looking pretty. Unlike the movie though, which apparently looks very pretty indeed, but reportedly has problems just about everywhere else. It …

Kervyn’s list of Top 10 Video Game Movies got me thinking: while video-game-to-movie adaptations aren’t easy, there have been some that are part-way decent. And, God bless Hollywood, they’re going to keep trying until they eventually get it right. In terms of upcoming video game movies, we have Agent 47 hitting our screens in September, and Assassin’s Creed and Warcraft …

If the following information is true it looks like the local Springbok fans are going to be able to virtually run out as their favourite players pretty soon.

Faster than a speeding bullet! It's a new rumour about a Superman video game!

When it comes to horror movies, I generally find them about as traumatizing as eating a lightly buttered scone. Horror video games on the other hand have the uncanny/nasty ability to worm their way into my skull in the most violent fashion and then turn my brain and nervous system into quivering mush. As such, I’ve never played “Five Nights …

Just a few days ago, star/producer Michael Fassbender provided a much needed update on video game adaptation Assassin’s Creed, saying that things are still progressing as planned, and they were busy ironing out the last few story points. What these and the already wrinkle-free story points are, he wouldn’t say. Which of course meant that fans went digging. One such fan is …