Franco-German TV channel finds niche in high-brow video games

A visitor plays a video game on the stand of the Franco-German public service channel Arte during the Paris Games Week video game fair in Paris, on Nov 1, 2023. — AFP

PARIS: French-German TV channel Arte is best known for covering cultural events and producing sophisticated dramas and documentaries, but over the past decade it has also been building a reputation in an entirely different arena: video games.

As with its TV programming, the publicly funded channel’s video games reflect its focus on culture and liberal causes – from an adaptation of a story by French author Boris Vian to an adventure game where the main character is a Syrian refugee.