How to Use video game in a Sentence
video game
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The adaptation of the Playstation video game opens in the U.S. on Aug. 25.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
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He was fed up and went and worked in video games for a while.
—William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
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These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
—Daniel Thorp-Lancaster, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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But fans who opt for the nuggets can get a special hot sauce with a nod to the beloved video game.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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The question: What are the challenges of adapting a video game?
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
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But do-overs don’t just exist in the playing of video games.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2024
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Like many young men, Jean Molla plays a wide range of video games.
—Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 10 Aug. 2023
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The book's success spawned both a movie starring Brad Pitt, and a video game.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
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Of course, isn’t the only video game franchise to get the TV treatment.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
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Wade says that sometimes, playing in the G League feels like a video game.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
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The first Splinter Cell video game was released in 2002.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
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Now, this isn't the first dating app focused on video games and gamers, right?
—Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2024
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Doe and her friend arrived at the apartment in the evening and went to Retzlaff’s room to play video games.
—Tess Demeyer, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Here, Kat Thompson writes about the video game that provides all the joy of baking with none of the cleanup.
—Kat Thompson, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2023
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Others look more like stills from a video game or a lucid dream.
—WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
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At the start of Sunday's finale, with streets filled with video game-like kills, the Man in Black flourished.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
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For much of his childhood, Pablo Schreiber didn’t have a TV, let alone a video game system.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
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It’s based on the video game, but it’s not a direct translation.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
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Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.
—Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2023
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Here's a look at the cast of The Last of Us side-by-side with their counterparts from the original video games.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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Last week Levis did a deal with Epic Games and Fortnight, the video game company.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2022
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Imagine Mozart’s Super Flute set in the world of classic video games.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 July 2024
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Cole then returned to his video game as his daughter died, O’Connor said.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
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The manga has previously been adapted for the TV, the big screen and as a video game.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
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The role is original to the series, as the character is not featured in the video game.
—Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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Its anime version is scheduled to be released in the spring on Disney+, along with a video game.
—Kiuko Notoya, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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Movie nights, game days, and after-school video games have never looked quite so good.
—Jake Smith, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2023
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Movie nights, game days, and after-school video games have never looked quite so good.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
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The Philadelphia Eagles star graces the cover of the video game for the first time in his career.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
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The creators referenced the video game his show is based on, as well as real-world places that saw mass destruction, like the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
—Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
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