The studio that fled publishers is now a publisher

thatgamecompany has launched thatgamepublisher, spending Sky: Children of the Light money on other people’s emotionally ambitious games.

At Wonderville, nine games replaced the gamepad entirely

The second annual Alt.Ctrl Festival ran Sunday in Bushwick — free, city-backed, and closing with a choral work scored for stepper motors.

VHOLUME is out: parkour under a brutalist Ministry

Léonard Lemaitre trades STRAFTAT's firefights for a city of locked doors, revoked ration tickets and rooftop routes.

Screaming Mad George left behind exactly one video game

Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell

Juan Covelli rebuilds Colombia’s toppled monuments

Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.

Trains Don't Stop: What to Play, September 11

The only way out requires a ticket.

Riding a Bike Through San Andreas [Podcast]

Bruno Abib on grief, the Lisbon suburbs, and why his short film about police violence needed a San Andreas sequence built from scratch.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Otherworlds closes Sunday at PHI

Six ecological worlds from a decade of fieldwork, hung as chapters of one unfolding video game — the artist’s largest institutional show yet.

Stephen Ddungu animates and scores a one-man prequel

The Sword of Symphony developer’s episodic project 00000 00 0x0000000 unfolds in [The Garden], a border between Ddungu’s games.

SILT’s monochrome abyss reached the Apple Design finals

Illustrator Tom Mead’s underwater world put Spiral Circus beside Cyberpunk 2077 at Apple Park

A stranded astronaut meets Voyager 1 in a free Steam game

Control, I’m Not Coming Back is Desborde Games’ hopecore walking sim

Inflatable microbes toured all five Meow Wolf worlds

Nicole Banowetz and Devin Reilly sewed Phenomenomaly’s newest Leviathan from the anatomy of microscopic organisms.