Adam Pype Hands You the Knife [Podcast]

I ask Adam Pype why SKINFACE, a game about peeling off strangers’ faces, sits easier with the squeamish than horror that happens to you, and what he makes next.

A University Press Will Now Peer-Review Tabletop Games

Carnegie Mellon's new Promptuary anthology treats a rules text as the scholarship itself. Its first call closes Nov. 30.

Kara Stone shows Landfill at the Art Gallery of Ontario

After seven straight weeks of daily playtests, the upcoming game reached Walker Court for Video Game Arts Appreciation Night, on its way to a solar-powered server.

Ambrose Trataris Builds a VRChat World for Divination

Virtual...Oracle will host live readings with the artist and others inside a sea cave.

Every sigil you collect makes Pulcra's flesh maze meaner

Vikintor's free remaster of a five-minute arcade nightmar

Wendi Yan Merges Satellite Parts with Energy Beams

The 360-degree video features new paintings that fold Chinese scholar stones into game environments, in a duo show at Artverse.

A song is the whole theme of thatgamejam #02

thatgamecompany's two-week jam asks entrants to turn a piece of music into play, with $10,000 across five prizes and no rhythm games required.

Remembering.LILO Gives the Utah Teapot Its Designer Back

Valerio Arsenio's Eindhoven graduation project feeds Lieselotte Kantner's life story into computer graphics' most famous test model, then 3D prints the results.

Rhizome Opens Its 2026 Microgrants for Web-Based Art

Awards of $500 to $1,500 back new online projects in four categories, with Larva Labs on the jury and a Nov. 20 deadline.

Lesbian Simulator, a VR Game About Coming Out, Plays Zutphen

Iris van der Meule's colorful, 40-minute headset piece from Studio Biarritz is a stop on the Dutch city's first Cultuurnacht.

Beyond the Strand stages Kojima Productions first decade

Kojima Productions' 10th anniversary show in Tokyo pairs Hideo Kojima's high school book report with a live link to the office.

IDFA DocLab restores XR classics for its 20th edition

An Archive Arcade brings back landmark interactive documentaries in Amsterdam, alongside new work from Tamara Shogaolu, Ant Hampton and Polymorf.