‘Exit 8’ traps moviegoers in a video game’s puzzle — for good and ill

It's not impossible to translate a video game to the big screen, but Genki Kawamura's film version of a Japanese puzzle ...
Wargamer

"We had one shot": How first-time board game designers turned Whisker Wars into a crowdfunding success, despite "terrifying" tariffs

I spoke to Glasshouse Games, a debut board game publisher who chanced crowdfunding at the height of the US-China trade war.

Video game movies won't work unless you break the rules, says Exit 8 director

"Video games aren’t very good source material for movie adaptations… I wanted to blur the boundaries between what movies and ...
The New Yorker

“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source

In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, “Exit 8,” a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in ...
Gematsu

LEVEL-5 and NHN PlayArt announce ‘fusion puzzle’ game Pufflings: Journey Through a Fantasy World for iOS, Android

Wibble Wobble developer NHN PlayArt have announced Pufflings: Journey Through a Fantasy World, a new “fusion puzzle” game coming to iOS and Android this ...

Phantom Blade Zero isn't using AI: "Human artistry is the value itself"

Phantom Blade Zero is easily my most-anticipated game of 2026, and the fact that it's taken a hard stance on gen AI makes me love it more.