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NPR staff and contributors share their favorite video games of 2024 so far.

2024 may not have quite the stacked release calendar of 2023, but Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth is right around the corner. Signs also point to Nintendo Switch 2 later this year.

Soundtracks for outer space have appeared in many films — “Star Wars,” “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Interstellar,” to name a few. But the interactive music of “Starfield” does something different.

A copy of Nintendo's Super Mario 64 sold for $1.56 million at auction, breaking the record for most expensive video game. "I was ... a bit blindsided," says Valarie McLeckie of the auction house.

Davidson native Margaret Boykin is director of film development at Ubisoft, the company known for mega-hit video games like the Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy's franchises. The latest game-to-film adaptation is "Werewolves Within," out now, with Boykin as a key producer.

Six Days In Fallujah is based on the fight between U.S. troops and Iraqi opposition forces in 2004. The project was shelved for a decade, but the creator says it offers a serious look at the battle.

Many children of a certain generation have a warm place in their heart for classic Nintendo games like Mario and Zelda. As adults, they’re spending to…

Kids spend a lot of time playing video games. They spend hours fighting zombies, building underground worlds, waging war, and shooting pigs. Video games…