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YouTuber Andrew Levitt painstakingly recreated all 46 individual shots in the trailer for the Grand Theft Auto VI video game.

Canadian film photographer Dmitri Tcherbadji of Analog Cafe has been on a creative kick lately. Alongside his brilliant, operational instant film camera constructed using gingerbread, he has also helped develop a free web game built for analog shooters that tests the player's knowledge of black and white film stocks.

Morels: The Hunt 2 is an upcoming game from developer Abrams Studios that combines the joys of mushroom hunting and photography into one chill-as-hell experience.

An upcoming video game, Neko Odyssey, celebrates one of the internet's favorite past times: taking photos of cats.

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

Christopher Graves previously made waves with their incredible Game Boy Camera projects and photography, including the stylish Game Boy Camera M mirrorless camera. Graves has now crafted the Game Boy Mini Camera, which shrinks the large Game Boy Camera to the size of a standard Game Boy cartridge.

American video game publisher Annapurna Interactive has announced Lushfoil Photography Sim, a new landscape photography video game that will take players around the world to capture beautiful images captured by a realistic, fully-featured in-game camera.

To celebrate the 30th World Press Freedom Day, which falls on May 3rd each year, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has worked with game developers to design an anti-propaganda map for the popular video game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO).

Viewfinder is an upcoming video game that asks players to challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world using an instant camera.

The fantasy-themed photography game Alekon that released on Steam in 2021 is coming to Nintendo Switch.

Ubisoft has announced the Photomode in-game photography exhibition that is calling upon all virtual photographers to enter for the chance to see their best video game shots showcased in a physical gallery in New York.

Video game photography remains a relatively new medium with Gran Turismo 4 in 2005 the first to offer a photo mode.

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography is an educational video game that teaches Japanese to English-speaking players and uses photography to help make language learning fun.

Season: a Letter to the Future is a new photography-themed video game that's coming this fall for the PlayStation 4 and Playstation 5.

Sony has announced that 35mm, a post-apocalyptic photography game originally launched for PC in 2016, is coming to the Playstation 4 in March. The story follows two travelers as they try and survive and document their harsh world.

With the 18th iteration of the Call of Duty franchise headed back to the World War roots, Activision invited actual war photojournalists to step inside the game to photograph World War II "like we've never seen before."

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.

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.

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.

Fujifilm and Nintendo have teamed up to create a new smartphone photo printer that lets Nintendo Switch gamers print out their in-game photos as Instax instant photos. It's called the Instax Mini Link for Nintendo Switch Smartphone Printer.

Australian indie game developer Matt Newell has released a new free Steam game called Castle Rock Beach, West Australia. It allows you to freely explore a realistic recreation of Australia's southwest coast with a camera.

IKEA's catalog is almost iconic in the photo community. But if you were up in arms when they started replacing photos with realistic CGI, then you're really not going to like this... IKEA Taiwan recently redid key pages in its 2021 catalog using in-game 'photos' from the latest Animal Crossing video game.

If you enjoyed photographing Pokémon years ago in the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap, here's some news you may love: a new Pokémon Snap is coming to the Nintendo Switch.

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.

A couple of weeks into the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 and I’d noticed, among the many mentions on social media timelines of toilet paper shortages, sourdough fanaticism, and the essential viewing experience that is Tiger King, was a computer game called Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

French Photographer Renaud Coilliot has created a treat for Sigma shooters who want to show their love for the brand in the popular video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Inspired by Sigma's cameras and the 2018 short doc Made in Aizu, he created several hats and a jacket that you can wear in the game!

Portrait and fashion photographer Jessica Kobeissi has found an interesting way to stay creative and practice photography while practicing social distancing: she's creating full-blown photo shoots in the popular video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

If you're a fan of both Pokémon GO and photography, you may be happy to know that the game has been updated with an augmented reality camera that lets you shoot portraits of your Pokémon in the real world. The feature is called GO Snapshot.

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.

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.

New York City-based photographer Mike McGregor has a new photo series titled Modern Explorers. The portraits show Pokemon Go players hunting for Pokemon out in the wild.

I’ve avoided writing about Pokémon GO for a whole four days, trying my best to keep from inundating the Internet with yet another think-piece. However, something interesting has happened the last two times I have played the game with friends: I have taken some exceptional photos.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk famously said recently that he believes there's a "one in billions" chance that we're not all living in a computer simulation. This idea of real being indistinguishable from digital is the basis for photographer Ollie Ma's project Open World.

Ray Soemarsono of Apertura is a wedding photographer from Southern California who has received major accolades and awards for his work. More recently, Soemarsono has been receiving attention for a different kind of photography: photos shot inside the virtual world of a video game.

As video games become more and more realistic, some artists have made names for themselves by shooting artistic in-game photographs (AKA screenshots). Now NVIDIA wants to bring in-game photography to the masses: the graphics company just announced "Ansel," a new virtual photography tool that's ready to appear in many future games.