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Lofsöng hides a nuclear warning

Alessandro Durando's wordless adventure sends you across brutalist monuments carved to outlast the language of their builders.

Event banner for GTMO 441: Games, Detention, Power

Guantánamo

A game about Guantánamo is being built with its survivor

Mansoor Adayfi, held without charge for 14 years, joined Joseph DeLappe and Biome Collective as co-creator rather than subject.

Two 3D-printed figures on Murlo's custom controller, with Something Beautiful blurred on the Media Wall at Aviva Studios behind them

Murlo

Murlo Builds a World You Can Play

Chris Pell spent a decade reading dance floors. Now he is building a Luddite point-and-click alone, for one player at a time, with an album hidden inside it.

Abstract red, purple and teal poster with white concentric circles and hand-drawn black letters reading XP+10, dated October 9–11 2026

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Gossamer Fog’s XP+10 spreads 40-plus artists across 24 sites

Ten years of showing game engines as art earns the Deptford gallery a 48-hour weekender, plotted through a personalized interactive map.

A pixel hot air balloon floats over black mountains past billboards reading upbeat slogans in Up and Away.

MacArthur Foundation

Christine Sun Kim's MacArthur brings games one step closer

The fellowship citation names a playable installation, and the artist's voice-controlled speech therapy remake runs in your browser now.

A performance of Waluigi’s Purgatory by dmstfctn, with a 3D theatre projected above a stage

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Game engines meet stagecraft in dmstfctn’s Rhizome talk

Also, a purgatory for cheating AIs built as a theatre, where the audience runs the lights by phone.

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Two 3D-printed figures on Murlo's custom controller, with Something Beautiful blurred on the Media Wall at Aviva Studios behind them

Murlo Builds a World You Can Play

Chris Pell spent a decade reading dance floors. Now he is building a Luddite point-and-click alone, for one player at a time, with an album hidden inside it.

A pixel-art scene from GRANDMA, shown in the Kickstarter campaign video

Zhou Yichen's GRANDMA is coming to a metal cartridge

Backers can have someone they love redrawn as a pixel character in the Game Boy eulogy.

Brutalist blocks hang over a Manhattan skyline as a flock scatters, from EDGLRD's CONTROL Resonant campaign

Behind Control Resonant's ads: Harmony Korine's EDGLRD

The collective that made Aggro Dr1ft is selling Remedy's paranormal Manhattan.

Playable poems now come with peer review

Playable poems now come with peer review

Game Poems, Jordan Magnuson's open-access magazine of short-form videogames, borrows the literary journal apparatus:

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Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren

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The cover of Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs.

Code is a plaything in Daniel Temkin’s esolangs

Natasha Chuk’s new essay reads esoteric programming languages through Oulipo, Aarseth’s ergodics, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

A large festival crowd poses on and around a stage beneath an A MAZE. sign

A MAZE. / Berlin 2027: May 5–8, with 200 early-bird tickets

The arthouse-games festival whose lineup predicts a year of coverage sets its 16th edition; award submissions may open as early as December.

The holographic silver cover of The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games, with art by Plastiboo

John Walsh bound 21 fake games into one huge hardcover

Hollow Press's 176-page anthology, written by the YouTuber known as Super Eyepatch Wolf, reviews titles that exist only as art, Vermis to Bird World.

Grand Theft Auto V screenshot: suited men aim pistols at a figure in eighteenth-century aristocratic dress

A philosopher files Grand Theft Auto next to de Sade

Daisy Dixon’s Depraved treats games as full participants in the history of dangerous art, not late examples.

A painting of a young man playing Dark Souls at a desktop computer while a woman in a green dress stands behind the player, scolding

The boss fight is offscreen in Leonardo Devito's Dark Souls

The Florence-born painter puts the monitor, the keyboard and an unimpressed onlooker on canvas

A player using in-game 3D modeling tools to build a disguise in FAKE ME

In FAKE ME, your disguise starts as a blank block

Eren Can Metin and Emre Gökçe put the verbs of 3D modeling into a multiplayer hide-and-seek round.

A doll protagonist facing a painted, hazy landscape in Prison of Husks

A painted afterlife anchors Prison of Husks

Glass Head Dolls' doll wakes in the Lithos Plateau hunting a lost love

Two hand-drawn flightless birds standing on a bright island in Reason and Rhyme

Walaber's Reason and Rhyme is co-op for exactly two

Tim FitzRandolph's Flipnote-styled island puzzler lands October 15,

A pixel-art scene from GRANDMA, shown in the Kickstarter campaign video

Zhou Yichen's GRANDMA is coming to a metal cartridge

Backers can have someone they love redrawn as a pixel character in the Game Boy eulogy.

Come and See: What to Play, September 25

Come and See: What to Play, September 25

Six cinder blocks, seven cats, two body bags.

A comic-book styled platforming scene from Rebounder, printed in halftone dots

A precision platformer drawn in Ben Day dots

Aggro Crab's first signing is ThirtyThree's Rebounder

Aria explores a decaying pixel-art megastructure in METAMORPHOSIS

With Top Hat signing on, METAMORPHOSIS goes full time

luxan's pixel-art horror game sends a nun named Aria across a dead world toward absolution

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