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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Like many young men, Jean Molla plays a wide range of video games.
—Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 10 Aug. 2023
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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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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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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
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Little is known about the Minecraft movie, based on the globally popular video game of the same name.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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Thai Kitchen has become one of the few remaining spaces in the city where people can play video games face-to-face.
—Dev Hardikar, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
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The Nintendo video game controllers were in his closet.
—Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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If gaming is their thing, a pair of headphones or a new video game will likely be very well-received.
—Deanna McCormack, Parents, 19 Mar. 2024
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What’s also remarkable is that Genie generates each frame of the video game on the fly, as the user plays the game.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
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Gran Turismo Based on a video game and also based on a true story?
—James Grebey, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
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For a long time, the line was there hasn’t been a good dramatic adaption of a video game so the bar for doing that is really low.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
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Sony might be king of the video game hill, but that’s not shielding it from the wave of consolidation that has hit the industry in 2024.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
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Mizell was in his music studio in Queens, sitting on the sofa playing video games.
—Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
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Those working on, say, video games still need guardrails protecting their work.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
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Overall, the perception of video games and their impact on players' lives have improved in the last 40 or so years.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Excited to see him, Mr. Lambert invited him to hang out and play video games.
—Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
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Kobe Bryant Edition launched last week, as the latest release in the annual video game franchise.
—Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
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Users searched for who the people were on board, reports that a video game controller was used to steer the vessel and OceanGate, the company that owned the Titan.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
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Game on and check our picks for the best video game consoles, Nintendo Switch games, and gaming monitors.
—Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
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He’s also tried his hand at streaming video games on Twitch and has shared reviews of movies on his Instagram.
—Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
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The camera and the engine are in communication, so when the camera moves the virtual world can move with it—much like in a video game.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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Luca sat in an armchair, holding a video game controller while Koma posed on the bed, one eyebrow up.
—Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
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Fred, 14, enjoys putting together puzzles and playing board games and video games in his free time.
—The Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2024
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At Vanderbilt, sacrifice now includes shutting down the video game you were paid to appear in.
—Jesse Dougherty, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
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But in the summer, life outside in Stovepipe Wells is mostly confined to sitting by the pool, playing video games in the employee lounge or drinking at the saloon .
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
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