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1 week ago | 
wp.me | Kaare Eriksen
All eyes are on the $178 billion video game business in 2025, a year that will likely be defined by the performance of two major releases. Franchise behemoth “Grand Theft Auto 6” is expected to drop at a yet undetermined date this year, with expectations of a multibillion-dollar return for Take-Two Interactive.
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1 week ago | 
variety.com | Kaare Eriksen
All eyes are on the $178 billion video game business in 2025, a year that will likely be defined by the performance of two major releases. Franchise behemoth “Grand Theft Auto 6” is expected to drop at a yet undetermined date this year, with expectations of a multibillion-dollar return for Take-Two Interactive.
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2 weeks ago | 
variety.com | Kaare Eriksen
After the trailblazing run of “A Minecraft Movie” and the word-of-mouth success for “Sinners,” one would expect a horror film based on gaming IP to have a great shot in theaters.
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2 weeks ago | 
wp.me | Kaare Eriksen
Despite its gaming and horror mashup, “Until Dawn” largely failed to soar amid hits like “Minecraft” and “Sinners” While “Sinners” is the newest boon for horror, it’s a unique effort fronted by A-list talent and a big budget That’s a good sign for “28 Years Later” in June, but a pile-up of returning horror franchises makes the rest of 2025 unpredictable After the trailblazing run of “A Minecraft Movie” and the word-of-mouth success for “Sinners,” one would expect a horror film based on gaming...
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3 weeks ago | 
variety.com | Kaare Eriksen
Video game publication GamesBeat has spun out from technology site VentureBeat into a separate, independent entity, Variety has learned. Gina Joseph, who was chief strategy officer at VentureBeat and GamesBeat, now serves as CEO for the latter’s new incarnation, which is keeping the same name. Dean Takahashi, lead writer at GamesBeat since 2008, is the revamped publication’s editorial director.
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4 weeks ago | 
wp.me | Kaare Eriksen
The successor to Nintendo Switch, the third bestselling gaming system of all time, obviously has big shoes to fill. But Nintendo Switch 2, which arrives June 5, could not be dropping at a more uncertain and strenuous time for the gaming industry. There’s no question the Switch is still a popular product.
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4 weeks ago | 
variety.com | Kaare Eriksen
The successor to Nintendo Switch, the third bestselling gaming system of all time, obviously has big shoes to fill. But Nintendo Switch 2, which arrives June 5, could not be arriving at a more uncertain and strenuous time for the gaming industry. There’s no question the Switch is still a popular product.
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1 month ago | 
variety.com | Kaare Eriksen
Warner Bros. did it again. Less than two years after creating a $1.45 billion box office hit from scratch with Mattel’s “Barbie,” the studio net a $163 million domestic opening and $300 million overall for last weekend’s “A Minecraft Movie,” licensed from the hit Mojang gaming experience owned by Microsoft. But as welcome a success as this is for parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, it also exposes a world of difference between “Minecraft” and Warners’ own gaming efforts.
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1 month ago | 
wp.me | Kaare Eriksen
Warner Bros. did it again. Less than two years after creating a $1.45 billion box office hit from scratch with Mattel’s “Barbie,” the studio net a $163 million domestic opening and $300 million overall for last weekend’s “A Minecraft Movie,” licensed from the hit Mojang gaming experience owned by Microsoft. But as welcome a success as this is for parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, it also exposes a world of difference between “Minecraft” and Warners’ own gaming efforts.
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1 month ago | 
variety.com | Kaare Eriksen
This week’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas was besieged by seemingly endless debate over inconsistent theatrical windows. The tendency of some studios to release new films on digital platforms as soon as three weeks after they hit theaters continues to draw significant ire from those on the exhibition side, with Cinema United chief Michael O’Leary calling for normalized 45-day exclusive windows in cinemas. Ultimately, this is an exercise in reality denial.
