‘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 ...
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 ...

Marauding minotaurs, more CloverPit and other new indie games worth checking out

People of Note, from publisher Annapurna Interactive, will normally run you $25, though there's a 10 percent launch discount.

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 ...
CNET

This Animation Startup Wants to Make It Easier to Tell Open-Ended Stories

Founded by former OpenAI scientist Andrew Carr and former Google creative director Jonathan Jarvis, Cartwheel is bridging the gap between 2D vision and 3D execution.
Flickering Myth

007 First Light developer diary delves into the story of the upcoming James Bond game

The third episode of Beyond the Light, IO Interactive’s developer diary providing a behind-the-scenes look at their upcoming ...

Level-5 shares signs of life for Professor Layton and Decapolice

In a reel that gave some quick updates on Inazuma Eleven RE and Holy Horror Mansion, Level-5 finally showed a sign of life ...
Hackaday

Implementing A Rhythm Game Entirely In A GPU Shader

Most rhythm games have a community creating custom charts, and Trombone Champ is no exception. What is exceptional, however, ...