How to Use video game in a Sentence

video game

noun
Definition of video gamenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now, this isn't the first dating app focused on video games and gamers, right?
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rather, Madden is in part, according to sources, a video game movie.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Nintendo video game controllers were in his closet.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gran Turismo Based on a video game and also based on a true story?
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mizell was in his music studio in Queens, sitting on the sofa playing video games.
    — Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Those working on, say, video games still need guardrails protecting their work.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Many films, video games, comics and media cash in on the market for fantasy butchery.
    — WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Since her public reveal, Eve has been the latest in a line of video game heroines whose over-the-top design is a point of contention.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Excited to see him, Mr. Lambert invited him to hang out and play video games.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The Swamp Adventure recreates the same swamp from the video game and includes Lego Minecraft figures and accessories.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 14 Aug. 2024

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