“What I’m trying to do is tell really involved character stories that you hopefully can’t help but be taken over by,” Finn said.

When game studio Firaxis wanted to include famous Shawnee Tribe leader Tecumseh to its Sid Meier's Civilization series, it went straight to the tribe for advice. And a voice.

Actors García Bernal and Diego Luna, who also worked together on the 2012 film “Casa de Mi Padre,” discuss co-starring in showrunner Marco Ramirez’s “La Máquina” on Hulu, which tells the story of an aging boxer whose manager and close friend secures him one last chance at a comeback.

The Morrison Game Factory unfolds as an interactive narrative, one in which each challenge unlocks another mini-chapter in a tale of friendship, loneliness and even grief.

Pearson, an acclaimed actor, a TV host and an activist for disabled people, who stars in “A Different Man,” about the value of being different, isn’t letting his neurofibromatosis define him.

Actor David Boreanaz participated in a USO mission immersion tour in the Washington, D.C. area, where he visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps and met military service members to get an exclusive look into their daily lives.

“The Hunt for Red October,” written by an insurance salesman, launched a publishing empire and a series of Hollywood movies. Tom Clancy’s career was helped along by a push from The Washington Post ... and a good review from President Ronald Reagan.

Balatro, a spiced-up version of virtual poker, has become the video game surprise hit of the year. It has sold 2 million copies since its February release, and on Sept. 26, localthunk finally arrived on smartphone platforms.

“I think it helped to create our sport, skateboarding and action sports, in general, as a genre of games. It definitely got a lot more people interested in skating itself,” Hawk said. “It introduced a whole generation to a genre of music they may have never experienced. And, I mean, it just completely changed my life.”

Combat-heavy Echoes of Wisdom gives character her first starring role