The (awesome) TV show Breaking Bad has a long history with video games, including the funniest, most accurate meth-fuelled video game debates I’ve ever seen on a TV show, as well as some odd product-placement for the shooter Rage.
A news program on Norwegian channel NRK got a little more than it bargained for last month when its producers needed a graphic for an eye chart.
YouTube user Blitzkrieg1981 has, after spending around 55 hours pausing and examining episodes of the hit TV show The Office, gone and replicated the entire thing as a map in first-person shooter Counter-Strike.
Canadian broadcast news organisation CBC has put together audio documentary about propaganda games, featuring our own Stephen Totilo.
Sherlock, the BBC’s modern-day Sherlock Holmes reimagining, is a heck of an enjoyable tv show. In addition to the solid writing, strong acting, and un-cheesy modernizing of Holmes, I’m struck by the many ways that Sherlock uses the visual language of video games to place viewers in the mind of the master deducer himself.
OK, so that first Jonah Hill x Sam Worthington Call of Duty ad was… OK. A little cheesy, a little much, but OK. Their newer, second commercial is much better.
