Worldwide Video Game Spending Totals $10.46 Billion in June, Up 9% Annually

Director’s Chair has been revived and adapted, and is now available to be played online.The game, which starred Quentin Tarantino, allowed users to choose their favourite parts of Spielberg-shot footage and create their own version of the film as a director.Now, game creator and Carnegie University lecturer Paolo Pedercini has launched Director’s Choices, a new reboot of the game which can be played in a web browser.Pedercini describes the game as “an interactive movie made with bootlegged

Also Read: 'Moana' Star Auli'i Cravalho Is All Grown Up in First Trailer for Netflix YA Drama 'All Together Now' (Video)“Today, we have more video game players playing for more hours, while spending more in the process; and what gamers old and new are discovering is an industry that has a wide array of experiences available to them regardless of device and budget,” NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella said in a statement Monday.

They say nobody puts Baby in a corner. But it turns out they do… a lot.

City of Hope, one of the world's best hospitals for cancer research and treatment, launched a weekly virtual auction series on Monday (Aug. 3) with Charitybuzz, which will bring in some A-list helpers.There will be a curated showcase each week, featuring remarkable music-related memorabilia and once-in-a-lifetime experiences that cater to the timely theme.

Gemma Atkinson posted a video to social media at the weekend asking for her followers' support with a cause she is passionate about – banning bullfighting. The star's partner, Strictly dancer Gorka Marquez, is originally from Bilbao, and as she shared with fans, he had alerted her to the fact that bullfighting is set to start up again.Taking to her Instagram Stories on Saturday, Gemma said: "Gorka's just informed me that bullfighting is starting again in Spain.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerFACEBOOK IS IN: Facebook has jumped into the music video game. The social media giant has announced it will now license content from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group for Facebook Watch and via individual artists’ pages.

Also Read: Xbox, Ubisoft and Every Virtual Gaming Announcement Scheduled This Summer“We’re excited to work with Netflix on the ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ feature film and we look forward to sharing more in the future,” Ubisoft Film and Television said in a statement to TheWrap.Created by “Rayman” creator Michel Ancel, was a commercial failure upon its release in 2003 and plans for a sequel were scrapped.

Earlier in July, Zedd released his first new music of the year, and now that same song is soundtracking a new Zedd-centric experience inside of Minecraft.

Gaming network G4 teased a return next year with a video posted to Twitter on Friday, its first tweet since 2013. Alongside the caption "We never stopped playing," the clip showed the words "Incoming Transmission" on a TV screen, followed by "G4" and "2021." The website G4TV.com also appears to be backonline, showing a click-to-playPong game.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe virtual Comic-Con@Home received a very real blast from the past today – with more to come.Unplugged since 2014, video game network G4 TV is coming back to life next year.The NBCUniversal-owned once time home of Attack of the Show and X-Play sparked up earlier Friday with a PONG playing G4 TV website and a short “2021” tease on social media that resembled an eighties teen flick – in the best way:We never stopped playing.

No one will ever play music quite like Avicii, but a new video game is giving fans the opportunity to try.

Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.comSonequa Martin-Green is officially part of the family.“The Walking Dead” and “Star Trek: Discovery” actor has joined the “Fast & Furious” franchise — by way of video game. She plays new character Vienna Cole in “Fast & Furious: Crossroads,” the upcoming racing/action roleplaying game from Bandai Namco that releases on Aug.

Watch the trailer below The game will be released for free, playable online, once Greg reaches 1000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Indivisible, the action role-playing video game, is set to be adapted for television with Inside Out’s Meg LeFauve and Rob The Mob’s Jonathan Fernandez.The pair are writing and exec producing a small-screen take on the game, which was first released in 2019 and Deadline understands the project is in development at NBCU streamer Peacock.DJ2 Entertainment, which specializes in video game to television and whose credits include the Sonic the Hedgehog feature

In an effort to provide support to those in the video game industry who have been mistreated, the founder of media non-profit Feminist Frequency, Anita Sarkeesian, is launching a harassment hotline. The Games and Online Harassment Hotline, described as an "inclusive resource for anyone, no matter how you identify," is a free and confidential text-message-based hotline intended to offer emotional support, referrals and resources to developers, streamers, players and competitors.

Over his past couple of features, “Stuber” and “Coffee & Kareem,” Michael Dowse has established himself as a director that loves to play with the combination of over-the-top violence and raunchy humor.

Also Read: 'John Wick' Creator Derek Kolstad to Adapt Video Game 'Just Cause' for Constantin FilmWhile the film’s plot is being kept under wraps, as with the four “Just Cause” games the film will follow Rico Rodriguez on a race-against-time mission to stop the Black Hand, a lethal mercenary group.