A MAZE. Opens Applications for Playful Obscura Residency

Africa-based artists have until Nov. 1 to apply for three weeks in Addis Ababa, with the resulting work shown in Berlin next May.

The Overkill Festival Puts a Sleepover in the Program

Sickhouse built this year's edition in Enschede around rest, and Samuel Baidoo brings a tea-and-play hangout for Plum Road Tea Dream to the overnight.

Derek Holguin's Ex-Nihilo ii runs inside a pyramid in DTLA

A group show at 999 puts the exploration game in an arcade cabinet built by the Apocateca crew, on view through Nov. 6.

Game makers have until Oct. 26 to pitch Onassis ONX Seeds

The Athens program backs analog-digital prototypes: 5,000 euros of funding, four months of development, and an exhibition in March 2027.

EVA 2026 Shows The Swamp Daughter, a Novel Made Playable

Argentina's national developers' expo fills BA Ferial in Buenos Aires with more than 100 local games, including Bicho Raro Games' take on Alejandra Bruno's book.

Watch the Trailer for Jiayi Liu's Afterlife Game THRESHOLD

The Bartlett graduate project draws on Chinese funerary traditions and ghost marriage rites, with rooms that record every route walked.

The Dating Sim That Won't Tell You Why [Podcast]

Danny Snelson and I talk through Sagan Yee's mermaid hookup sim, Oleomingus's paradise, You+Pea's building plans and a Steel Battalion cockpit in a box.

Hexin Cai's Out of Focus Rebuilds a Childhood Flat in Pixels

The free Bartlett graduation project sets resolution against memory: some rooms return as coarse mosaics, others almost sharp.

Nullsleep Rebuilds nullsleep.com as a Life Archive

Jeremiah Johnson’s site counts the days around 300 dated sets and releases, from his 1980 birth to a projected death in 2057.

Two New Game Books Are Due From Hollow Press This Month

Brad Hock and Andrea Laperni extend the Italian publisher’s catalog of printed play, timed to Lucca Comics & Games.

Fascist Dentist Card Game Smashes Deserving Faces

Studio 2084 is sending its print-and-play tooth-collecting brawl to anyone who donates before the anti-capitalist festival

EXTRA Residency Talk Brings Off-Market Game Art to Arles

Alix Bugat and Elouan Le Bars close the Brussels-Arles residency for experimental video games with a free talk at Octobre Numérique.