Polished adaptations like “The Last of Us” and “Minecraft” lack the awkward charm of the genre’s early years.

With 'A Minecraft Movie' in striking distance of the billion-dollar mark at the global box office, there's no better time to check in on video games.

These video games, considered the top 10 most popular video games of all time, represent entertainment, innovation, and community engagement.

Scripted deaths in video games can be painful because they take advantage of the bond players create with characters over many hours, making the loss feel personal. This feeling of helplessness is similar to real grief and is heightened by the player's involvement in the story.

With new video games seemingly getting released every day, it can be hard to separate the good from the bad - but Mirror writer Zahna Eklund has compiled their top 10 titles of the last five years

Beyond the Clash of Clans show, Netflix is producing a number of other video game tie-ins, including a Gears of War movie and show and an Assassin's Creed series.

A video compilation of fighter jets destroying ground targets while swerving return fire uses images from a video game, which have been falsely portrayed by some social media users as authentic combat footage.

The paper also highlights sharpened problem-solving skills. To play a game is to come up against problems and work out a solution to them, and the research backs this up. “Evidence is emerging that playing any kind of video game, regardless of whether or not it is violent, enhances children’s creative capacities,” wrote the researchers.

Katie writes: My husband wants to gaslight our son into thinking modern video games don’t exist. He wants our son to experience them in the order he did, starting at the beginning. Our son isn’t even 1 year old. This will take too long and require too much work to keep up the charade.

A video game scene has been falsely presented on social media as footage of Pakistan shooting down an Indian jet during a period of fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours.