So, Aaron Paul's big post-Breaking Bad victory lap is a nice payday and a starring role in a popcorn flick. But what if, instead of a gritty, growly movie adaptation for Need for Speed, Mario Kart got the treatment instead? Read… 10/12/13 6:00pm 10/12/13 6:00pm

It seemed like Mortal Kombat was dead for a while there. No games, no movies, no Fatalities. But now, the gory fighting franchise is back, with a movie in development and season two of a slickly-made web series making its debut today. (The first episode is above.) The same guy is in charge of both, but he says the… Read… 9/26/13 6:30pm 9/26/13 6:30pm

Filming begins in Macon, Ga. on the Need for Speed movie, which this local TV reporter says is "a great moment for Macon, for Fountain Car Wash, and for all of the community." Discuss… 5/13/13 4:30pm 5/13/13 4:30pm

Video game lovers haven’t had reason to think about Uwe Boll for a couple of years. The German-born filmmaker hasn’t put out one of his retina-scarring game adaptations for a while. But he hasn’t stopped making films. Over at CriticWire, Matt Singer argues Boll’s newer movies have gotten better but they’ve gotten more… Discuss… 5/10/13 10:40am 5/10/13 10:40am

If you’ve played and loved the Ratchet & Clank games, then you’ve wondered why the series’ slapstick humor and crazy sci-fi action hasn’t been translated into a TV show or a movie yet. I know I have. Well, it’s finally happening. Read… 4/23/13 9:07am 4/23/13 9:07am

Tomb Raider's reboot as a video game seems to have worked out well, so Crystal Dynamics is comfortable talking about their reboot plans for the film, too. Read… 3/05/13 9:40am 3/05/13 9:40am

Just-hired director Duncan Jones might have figured out how to do a Warcraft movie two years ago. Discuss… 1/31/13 1:15pm 1/31/13 1:15pm

The scourge of terrible retro games over the past six years, James Rolfe—the Angry Video Game Nerd—has been working on a feature-length film for some time; he announced plans for it back in 2010 and last year cut back production of the Angry Video Game Nerd series to focus on it. Yesterday, he uploaded the feature's … Read… 11/11/12 12:00pm 11/11/12 12:00pm

Roger Avary has been working on a Wolfenstein (id's shooter series, not its predecessor) movie for over five years now, but in the meantime he's been, um, a little busy. Read… 11/01/12 11:18pm 11/01/12 11:18pm

Electronic Arts has signed up an Emmy-winning actor to put the pedal to the metal in an upcoming film adaptation of their Need for Speed franchise. Read… 10/15/12 2:09pm 10/15/12 2:09pm

Hollywood producer Jeff Katz says that the late directing legend Tony Scott "badly wanted" to do the Gears of War film. Discuss… 8/20/12 3:45pm 8/20/12 3:45pm

Every ten years, the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine runs a poll that asks film critics and directors to vote for the films that they think are the examples of cinematic excellence. It's a storied tradition that goes back 50 years and is highly regarded by filmmakers and journalists alike, with classics … Read… 8/17/12 11:00am 8/17/12 11:00am

They're already talking about February 2014 as the release window for Need For Speed the movie, which tells you everything you need to know about this venture, even 18 months away. Movies released in late winter, specifically February, are fucking terrible. Critics expect them to be fucking terrible. Their makers… Read… 7/11/12 10:00pm 7/11/12 10:00pm

Not to knock on the PS3's signature action franchise, but the Uncharted games never sparked the kind of cultural fascination that the Halo franchise did under Bungie's tenure. So, if you had to make a movie of one series, you'd pick Master Chief over Nathan Drake, right? Not if you're Avi Arad, you wouldn't. Read… 6/12/12 2:45pm 6/12/12 2:45pm