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1) Free guy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back (Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan) but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game. - Amazon.
4) Pixels
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Aliens attack Earth in the form of video games after misinterpreting video feeds of classic video games as a declaration of war.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to save her broken game, Ralph and Vanellope race against the clock -- and some shady characters in a gritty, urban racing game -- in the vast world of the Internet! When faced with the lure of new cars and exciting racing routes, Vanellope considers leaving the arcade for good, and Ralph recognizes that he may lose the only friend he's ever had.
6) Tron
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing.
7) Hero mode
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With her indie video game business on the brink of bankruptcy. Kate throws a Hail Mary and puts Troy, her teenage coding genius son, in charge of creating a video game to save the company. It's a dream come true for Troy. But quite the opposite for the company's disgruntled coders and their rival CEO.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004, p2003]
Language
English
Description
Secret agents Juni and Carmen set out on their most mind-blowing mission yet: to venture inside the virtual reality of a 3-D video game. The game contains awe-inspiring graphics and creatures that come dangerously close to real life. As they face escalating challenges, the Spy Kids must rely on humor, high-tech gadgets and the bonds of family in order to stop a power-hungry villain who is set on controlling the youth of the world.
10) 8-bit Christmas
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system. A humorous and heartfelt look back at the adventures of childhood. Set in suburban Chicago in the late 1980s, the story centers on ten-year-old Jake Doyle's (Winslow Fegley) herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas. -- Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. Joystick Warriors provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue. Drawing on the insights of media scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter games, exploring how...
13) Existenz
Language
English
Description
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
14) Murder bury win
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When three game designers have to dispose of a body, they turn to their game for help. The premise? How to murder someone, and get rid of the body.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A small town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision video game cartridge...Max Jenkins' gaming fantasies collides with reality when a legendary ''lost'' installment of the 1980's ''Nether Game'' series appears on the store counter of his workplace. Unbeknownst to Max, the old game cartridge bears a ''Curse of The Ages'', and in playing it, he has just unlocked ''The...
16) Tron Legacy
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years after Kevin Flynn goes missing, his son is drawn into the virtual reality computer world that his father created and must play the games and survive to find his father.
17) Virtually heroes
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two self-aware characters in a Call of Duty-inspired video game battle endless supplies of Vietcong, absurdly powerful level bosses, and their existential crises. With the help of Mark Hamill's Yoda-like monk, they attempt to win the game and get the girl.
18) Gamer
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kable is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent Slayers. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned, and forced to fight against his will, the modern-day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game, free his family, regain his identity, and save mankind from this ruthless technology.
19) GTFO
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Although half of all gamers are women, females are disproportionately subject to harassment and abuse from other gamers, and are massively under-represented in the video game design world. Through interviews with video game developers, journalists, and academics, GTFO...
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