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 video game takes place between the prequel spinoff and the first film.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the band’s music was used in films, TV and video games.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 7 July 2025
  • These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
    Daniel Thorp-Lancaster, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Of course, isn’t the only video game franchise to get the TV treatment.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Teens age 13 – 17 have a place all to themselves at the teens club with video games, ping pong, and pool games.
    Miriam Porter, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Wade says that sometimes, playing in the G League feels like a video game.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A couple of years ago, Davis took his eldest son to GameStop to buy him a video game.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • So, at what point did the storyline diverge from the video game?
    Andrea Reiher, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • That means the Raiders will be one of only two teams with a coach in the video game with a generic license.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Dom has invented a video game, but James doesn’t want to know about it.
    Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2021
  • Others look more like stills from a video game or a lucid dream.
    WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • It’s based on the video game, but it’s not a direct translation.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Part of this is because the video game the show is based off of is just about cars fighting each other.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The entry opens to reveal Zuck playing video games inside a tiered theater.
    India Roby, Architectural Digest, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This fall, though, brings one of EA’s deepest slate of releases in years, at a time when the video game sector as a whole is trending upward.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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