Exit 8” is a film based on a popular 2023 Japanese walking simulator game of the same name. Developed by Kotake Create, the ...

Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tunnels. He explains how this makes viewers and players face their worst fears Genki ...

A commuter’s entrapment provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based A glitch in the matrix, a rip in existence’s fragile fabric ...

Most directors will never have the chance to write novelizations of their own movies — directing movies and writing novels are such radically different disciplines that few creators cross the streams.

Three supertankers laden with oil have passed through the Strait of Hormuz amid the fragile truce between the United States and Iran, according to shipping data. Iran’s blockade of the strait, a ...

We've all heard the expression "you couldn't pay me to live there." But what about states that find ways to make you pay more to live there, or tax you when you move away? Though the term "exit tax" ...

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The popular video game The Exit 8, published, in 2023, by the Japanese indie developer Kotake Create, is what aficionados call a “walking simulator,” and what I’d call elegantly minimalist existential ...

Go up the stairs, and turn the corner. You’re at one end of a long subway corridor — the kind of bland, generic space citydwellers tread through day in and day out. The walls and floors are colored in ...

Exit 8 will hit U.S. theaters on April 10. Exit 8 may not look like it at first glance, but it is in fact based on a video game. That would be The Exit 8, a 2023 indie game by developer Kotake Create, ...

Director Genki Kawamura’s big-screen take on the indie video game hit follows a man who can’t find his way out of a Tokyo subway tunnel. By Jordan Mintzer The press notes for the high-concept, ...