When BUGG begins, the audience's phones become the stage

Nino Filiu's lecture-performance opened Kaugummi im Motherboard 3.0, the ten-artist group show from gr_und and Erratum Projects, in Berlin through Dec. 4.

Grinding Choices, a gamebook of crypto labor, launches

Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn of latency.club built it from years of fieldwork in Cuba,

Tënk Is Streaming Chris Marker's Video Game Film Level Five

The 1997 experimental follows Laura as she completes a war simulation about Okinawa that refuses to let anyone change history.

A Funded Residency Will Teach Decolonial Storytelling in VR

Rotterdam Writers' Rooms seeks six writers for a January program built around colonial collections at the Dutch national library. Applications close Nov. 20.

SFPC Opens Winter Term With Two Classes on Play

Lawra Clark teaches expressive game design in GameMaker, alongside a pedagogy course from Alia ElKattan and Fred Wordie. Applications close Nov. 16.

Carlos Navarro's Penjing World puts miniature life on massive scale

The audio-reactive Gaussian-splat landscape ran in Times Square.

FACT Liverpool's Third Journal Turns to Games

Gamespace gathers essays and conversations from Uma Breakdown, Theo Triantafyllidis, David Blandy, and others.

Please Hold: alpha_rats Turns a Call Center Into a Game

From 2014 to 2019, alpha_rats cold-called French households for a tobacco survey, then turned the job into a performance where the audience answers the phone.

[Event] Eight Doom mods take over Onassis ONX on Nov. 10

Sean Kennedy and Brian Droitcour curate an arcade night asking what a 1994 shooter can be, from myHouse to Cyriak Harris's Going Down.

HYPERBALLIN' is a wild and free playtest

The high-speed marble platformer from a solo developer bounces into a free public playtest.

Peter Nichols Built a Colony Sim for the Last Honey Bees

Made in two weeks for thatgamecompany's jam, Buzzkeeper runs thousands of simulated insects through NASA climate projections for the end of the century.

Where do artists who make games "fit"?

Mitchell Chan sorts the field into categories, including Gesamtkunstgames and agential representation.