In an effort to highlight some of the best books and documentaries covering the world of video games, we’re running a series of interviews with the writers, directors, and curators behind them.

It’s also a word ingrained into the soul of It’s In The Game: Madden NFL, a four-part Prime Video documentary that explores the history of the gaming’s biggest football franchise.

First, the documentary series (published on YouTube in early 2023) is one of the most frank, thorough, and lovingly crafted stories of the video game development process ever made. There are tears.

Victura bills the game as the “world’s first documentary video game.” The Seattle-based team has been very deliberate about sticking to the history of the war that serves as the basis for ...

A new documentary by Asics called Mind Games backs up the age-old claim that a healthy body leads to a healthy mind. Especially when it now comes to the world of video games. Over the years I have ...

The group’s play within a game — and subsequent documentary about the making of their production — joins a small list of other movies and shows that have been made inside of video games ...

Day 69:06Interactive documentary video game Tetris Forever tells the fascinating 40-year history of the best-selling video game of all time The story of Tetris, one of the most popular video games ...

Now, Prime Video is diving deep into a handful of win-or-go-home games across sports history with the new documentary series “Game 7,” subtitled “a five-part series on the two greatest words ...

The greatest video game documentary of all time just got a 90-minute prologue and a special edition Blu-ray (including an 80-page booklet for which I wrote the intro). That’s great for dedicated ...