‘Exit 8’ traps moviegoers in a video game’s puzzle — for good and ill

It's not impossible to translate a video game to the big screen, but Genki Kawamura's film version of a Japanese puzzle ...
Wargamer

"We had one shot": How first-time board game designers turned Whisker Wars into a crowdfunding success, despite "terrifying" tariffs

I spoke to Glasshouse Games, a debut board game publisher who chanced crowdfunding at the height of the US-China trade war.

Video game movies won't work unless you break the rules, says Exit 8 director

"Video games aren’t very good source material for movie adaptations… I wanted to blur the boundaries between what movies and ...
The New Yorker

“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source

In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, “Exit 8,” a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in ...
Gematsu

LEVEL-5 and NHN PlayArt announce ‘fusion puzzle’ game Pufflings: Journey Through a Fantasy World for iOS, Android

Wibble Wobble developer NHN PlayArt have announced Pufflings: Journey Through a Fantasy World, a new “fusion puzzle” game coming to iOS and Android this ...
Technical.ly

Enter the lottery to play the world’s largest video game

For the first time in 12 years and to commemorate America 250, Technical.ly and Drexel professor Frank Lee will host games on a skyscraper at Philly Tech Week.

Phantom Blade Zero isn't using AI: "Human artistry is the value itself"

Phantom Blade Zero is easily my most-anticipated game of 2026, and the fact that it's taken a hard stance on gen AI makes me love it more.