The NBA is teaming up with Take Two Interactive to launch a professional video game league based on the game publisher's NBA 2K series.
The new eSports league will be the biggest collaboration to date between traditional and digital sports, with components mimicking the actual NBA such as a player combine, draft, regular-season games and playoffs starting in 2018.
TheRead more
The Curse of the Video Game Adaptation. It would make a good game itself: a questing role-player in which you control an idealistic filmmaker trying to turn a popular shoot-’em-up into a movie.
Challenges include purgatorial board meetings, battles for creative control, the coaxing of above-it-all actors, salvaging your terrible-looking special effects. And when you’ve amassed enough budget points, youRead more
Iran has banned the sale of a video game which gives players the chance to take a first-hand role in the 1979 revolution.
1979 Revolution: Black Friday was created by an Iranian-born game designer Navid Khonsari and his wife, and has been praised for being historically accurate.
But it has been banned by officials in Tehran for being "Anti-Iranian" andRead more