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'Video Games: The Movie' documentary will launch in theaters on July 18

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video Games: The Movie, a documentary that chronicles the history of video games, will be released in theaters across the U.S. and Canada on July 18. It will hit iTunes and other digital video platforms starting July 15.

The feature-length movie was created by executive producer Zach Braff and director Jeremy Snead, and Variance Films, a division of Amplify, has acquired the distribution rights for the film. Based on the trailer below, you can see that it’s a slick production that chronicles the meteoric rise of video games from a nerd niche to a $70 billion industry.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.