How to Use video game in a Sentence

video game

noun
  • The adaptation of the Playstation video game opens in the U.S. on Aug. 25.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
  • He was fed up and went and worked in video games for a while.
    William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The question: What are the challenges of adapting a video game?
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But do-overs don’t just exist in the playing of video games.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Like many young men, Jean Molla plays a wide range of video games.
    Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The book's success spawned both a movie starring Brad Pitt, and a video game.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The first Splinter Cell video game was released in 2002.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Now, this isn't the first dating app focused on video games and gamers, right?
    Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Others look more like stills from a video game or a lucid dream.
    WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Imagine Mozart’s Super Flute set in the world of classic video games.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 July 2024
  • Cole then returned to his video game as his daughter died, O’Connor said.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The manga has previously been adapted for the TV, the big screen and as a video game.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Movie nights, game days, and after-school video games have never looked quite so good.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Movie nights, game days, and after-school video games have never looked quite so good.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The husband puts in his 40 hours at a mediocre job, then plays video games while his wife and my daughter take care of the house.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • There has also been a video game adaptation of the books, which was released in 2008.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Rather, Madden is in part, according to sources, a video game movie.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • At times, the movie can feel like a video game, or the famous one-shot restaurant scene in Goodfellas.
    John Hendrickson, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2023
  • For instance, a large majority of teens in the U.S. — more than 85% — play video games.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • Little is known about the Minecraft movie, based on the globally popular video game of the same name.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Get up late, watch a little news, play a video game, watch some basketball, go to bed.
    William Earl, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • With more than 230 million copies sold, Guinness World Records deems Minecraft the world’s best-selling video game.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 30 June 2023
  • In any other video game, this would be a beautiful moment to stop and linger on.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
  • My son plays Forza Horizon 5, which is a racecar video game, on his headset with friends.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • These things had a glow, like sacred objects in a painting, or tokens in a video game.
    Hazlitt, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Players will find plenty of horror in video games year-round.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • On Halloween night, King hands out candy to trick-or-treaters at their office while Carpenter stays home to watch sports or play video games.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024

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