How to Use video game in a Sentence

video game

noun
  • 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
  • These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
    — Daniel Thorp-Lancaster, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But fans who opt for the nuggets can get a special hot sauce with a nod to the beloved video game.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The question: What are the challenges of adapting a video game?
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The book's success spawned both a movie starring Brad Pitt, and a video game.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Wade says that sometimes, playing in the G League feels like a video game.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The first Splinter Cell video game was released in 2002.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Now, this isn't the first dating app focused on video games and gamers, right?
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Here, Kat Thompson writes about the video game that provides all the joy of baking with none of the cleanup.
    — Kat Thompson, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Others look more like stills from a video game or a lucid dream.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • At the start of Sunday's finale, with streets filled with video game-like kills, the Man in Black flourished.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • For much of his childhood, Pablo Schreiber didn’t have a TV, let alone a video game system.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
  • It’s based on the video game, but it’s not a direct translation.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Last week Levis did a deal with Epic Games and Fortnight, the video game company.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2022
  • Imagine Mozart’s Super Flute set in the world of classic video games.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 July 2024
  • Cole then returned to his video game as his daughter died, O’Connor said.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Movie nights, game days, and after-school video games have never looked quite so good.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • And just like in a video game, users are represented by an avatar.
    — April Rudin, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • There has also been a video game adaptation of the books, which was released in 2008.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Rather, Madden is in part, according to sources, a video game movie.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Jonas Mårtensson spent a decade building Minecraft into one of the world’s most popular video games.
    — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025

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