Slice of the action: smartphone game Fruit Ninja to be made into film
Halfbrick Studios, the makers of the billion-selling fruit-slicing game, have announced plans to convert it into a live-action family comedy
Top Guns: The six greatest flight shooters
It’s the 30th anniversary of Top Gun, and here are the finest air combat games inspired by the classic movie
The Call Up review – cheap and cheerful gamer number with a slasher-pic heart
This lowish-budget British film about gamers playing a VR shoot ’em up gone wrong is a modest update on all those killer-website movies in the noughties
Steven Spielberg warns VR technology could be ‘dangerous’ for film-making
Speaking at Cannes, the multiple Oscar winner and BFG director expressed fears that storytelling will suffer if viewers of VR films are given the choice where to look
BB-8’s Windows XP makeover is the stuff of nightmares
Star Wars: The Force Awakens mascot droid turned from inspirational robotic pal into a 2001 disaster with the help of Microsoft’s operating system
The Y2K aesthetic: who knew the look of the year 2000 would endure?
From fashion and architecture to music and art, the optimism and techno-utopianism of the early 2000s found its way into every element of design
Captain America puts Angry Birds to flight at UK box office
Marvel’s crusading superhero reigns supreme for a third week as the animated avians perch in second place
The Angry Birds Movie review – charmless chaos
Fans may rejoice at their game being given a story, but it’s one that lacks laughs and elegance
Viral video: cat watches horror movie, James Corden and Cyndi Lauper sing
Watch a kitten react to a scary Hitchcock soundtrack, plus the duo back equal pay with a parody of Girls Just Want To Have Fun
When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up
Almost 50 years after Kirk and Uhura’s kiss on Star Trek, there are plenty of parts for black women - provided they want to play blue- or green-skinned aliens …
Is the Assassin’s Creed movie actually going to be good?
The first trailer was released on Wednesday, showing Michael Fassbender donning the assassin’s hood. It shows promise, but we’ve been here before
Assassin’s Creed: five things we learned from the first trailer
Michael Fassbender’s movie already looks better than Warcraft, with Marion Cotillard on top femme fatale form and director Justin Kurzel embracing the video game
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo massacre drama heading to Amazon
Nascent studio also announces debut original movie: Doug Liman-directed sniper thriller The Wall, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson
The end of Infinity: Disney scraps video game series as it closes in-house studio
Company axes ‘toys-to-life’ games and shutters Avalanche Software in move that marks withdrawal from console gaming sector
The Angry Birds Movie review – game spin-off that doesn’t quite reach Lego Movie levels
The addictive smartphone game has been shoehorned into an amusing animation narrative whose ridiculousness is part of its appeal