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Downpour is a new app that allows users to turn their photos on their smartphone into games.

Memory company Crucial makes products for photographers and gamers alike. The company has blended these two audiences with a new article, "The most beautiful video games."

For photographers who cannot get enough of photography in the real world, there are plenty of ways to enjoy it in the virtual world.

Canine photography game, Pupperazzi is coming to Nintendo Switch in early 2023.

Flickr is adding a new virtual photography category for bulk uploading, group adminning, and search filtering in what it describes as one of its most active communities.

Intel has announced the first of its Arc A-series 3 graphics desktop cards -- the ARC3 A380 Discrete Graphics processor -- for use in Intel-based computers.

Portable USB-powered displays aren't new but can be very helpful for editors on the move to get access to more screen real estate. Acer’s new model turns things up a notch though and can take a 2D image and make it appear as if it were 3D.

Razer today announced the Enki gaming chair and while the term "gamer" comes with a lot of baggage that will make many immediately ignore it, this one looks promising whether or not you enjoy video games. I mean, we all need to sit, right?

Ever feel like having an actual camera controller for the latest Pokémon Snap game on the

If you enjoy photography-themed video games, check out TOEM. It's an upcoming photo adventure game with quirky characters and a hand-drawn minimalist art style.

The recently-concluded 2020 Olympics weren't different just for athletes and spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic, but also for news outlets that covered the games. For example, the BBC shows how its Tokyo studio was entirely faked, recreated within Epic's Unreal gaming engine.

If you enjoy photography simulations in video games and a storyline that may give you nightmares, Martha is Dead is an upcoming psychological thriller game designed just for you.

There’s an inherent freedom to photography as a creative outlet, especially when you’re capturing landscapes or urban environments. But the COVID era has seen many of us confined to our homes and cut off from the world around us.

If you're a fan of mind-bending puzzle games like Portal, you may want to keep your eye on Viewfinder, an in-development game that revolves around a Polaroid camera that shoots reality-altering photos.

HP has unveiled three new ZBook G8 range laptops, from a more affordable option to a powerful mobile workstation suitable for creative professionals, all customizable with 11th Gen Intel H-Series processors and 4K displays.

Razer has announced an upgraded Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model laptop lineup with an ultra-thin design, new features, and a price starting at $2,300.

The latest Tamagotchi model, Tamagotchi Pix, adds a touch of augmented reality with a built-in camera that allows players to take photos with their digital pet along with a few other additional gameplay features.

Umurangi Generation is a newly released computer game that bills itself as "a first-person photography game in the sh**ty future." If you enjoy photography and grew up enjoying Pokémon Snap, then this game is right up your alley.

One of the most unintentionally useful influences on my photography has turned out to be the time I’ve spent playing computer games. Some photographers use cinema as a learning tool to observe the way cinematographers and DOP’s use their cameras to capture a scene. This can be a great source of inspiration, but I think it can lead to some photographers heading out and seeking to recreate shots or aesthetic styles (color palette, depth of field, grain, etc) rather than capturing anything unique for them.

What would an 8-bit astrophotography video game be like? That's what astrophotographer and PhD student Alex Pietrow asked, and he ended up creating a new video game called Astronomer for the the Atari 2600, the classic console that was launched back in 1977.

Facebook has suspended 10 large groups on its service that were being used by hundreds of thousands of people to game Instagram in hopes of making their photos more popular.

The graphics in games are becoming so good nowadays that a number of games have ultra-realistic "photo modes" that allow you to freeze frame and capture high resolution stills that can easily look like actual photos at first glance. Gran Turismo Sport's new "Scape" mode is one just mode that car photographers may enjoy: it employs a host of features you'd expect more from Adobe Lightroom than a video game.

Virtual reality cameras just got real. Literally. The D3-U is the world's first physical "camera" device that's designed to take photos in virtual worlds.

Sometimes I make brief escapes from the humdrum of city life and venture into the woods to capture the majesty of nature. I ride around on my bicycle like a madman looking for interesting subjects to capture. The last time I did this, my beloved camera bounced out of my pocket somewhere along the bumpy road; I’d gotten some good shots that day, quite a few actually, and keeping a stoic attitude while backtracking in search of my lost camera became increasingly difficult. Not only was the camera lost, I was lost.

Do you yearn for a time when graphics were more pixelated and Betamax still had a chance? At times, we can’t help but to reminisce about late 20th-century technology, which is why we have decided to take a close look at Retrospecs for iOS. This nifty $2 app allows you to quickly transform your favorite pictures into retro computing art with the press of a button. Today, we are taking a look to see if it fulfills our nostalgic desires or gives us the pains of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy.

It's becoming trendy to offer selfies as a feature in video games now. Just weeks after World of Warcraft added self-portraits through a new patch, the classic first-person-shooter Doom is getting the same treatment -- albeit unofficially.

There's a new mod for the game called "InstaDoom" that adds a selfie stick and 37 Instagram filters to the game, opening the door to some strange in-game photo ops.

Conflict photographer Ashley Gilbertson was recently sent into a very different war zone by TIME. Instead of capturing images of human versus human conflict in real life, Gilbertson was told to document the main characters in the video game The Last of Us Remastered.

Video Game Tourism has an interesting article about the growing art of video …

People ask me, “Jun Shen, how do you shoot so fast on the streets?!?” I’m like a ninja, whipping out my camera, shooting it, and putting it away so quickly that my subjects don’t know what hit them. They walk away whispering to themselves, “What was that? Did he take our photo?

It’s thanks to video games, folks. Read on to find out why.

New media artist Kent Sheely took some of his old photographs and recreated them inside the sandbox physics game Garry's Mod. Each "virtual photo" took about 2-3 hours to recreate: Sheely had to pick out models, set up objects, tweak details, and position everything while looking through the stationary camera view in the game.

Warco — short for War Correspondent — is an upcoming video game in …

Did you know that some of Kodak’s early DSLR cameras had built-in games? Before Canon and Nikon started making …

Seldom do the wonderful worlds of video games and photography meet, but when they do, fun often ensues.