When the crank turns, Ancient Loops collides its cards

Nicolas Tilly's Playdate sound toy drops levels and fail states for resonances, ritual, and a 30-second performance recorder.

Offenbach scores Federico Solmi's Unity studio footage

A process reel shows hand-painted surfaces wrapped onto 3D models — the game engine used as camera and stage, never as game.

Tukoni: Forest Keepers brings Oksana Bula's books to Steam

The illustrator behind the series stayed on as art director, and the wordless woodland fable plays in any language.

Jackie Turpin's tennis project starts with Nadal's serve

The UCLA animator rotoscoped the swing frame by frame to test a 2D-to-3D pipeline, working the seam where drawing meets simulation.

Games This Week: Aug. 26, 2026

A cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's whole life out of Japan's census. Plus a pigeon romance killed by a shut-down map service and rebuilt on open maps, a 2011 Kill Screen piece on toddlers who play before they can score, and Queen's Domain, a murky first-person heir to King's Field.

A free demo turns Pac-Man into first-person baby horror

BREAKOUT BABY, from developer STH and publisher Assemble Entertainment, hands you an infant and a maze

The Young and the Scoreless

Toddlers step out into the world of consoles

Wristwork rebuilt its dead pigeon romance on open maps

The London studio's lockdown-era collectathon returns at true city scale — hundreds of thousands of birds, and one of them is your soulmate.

Gaming Club: Ten minutes left at the end of the world

Cameron Granger built a warehouse party for the last night on earth. We spent forty-five minutes with him on what a game can borrow from a night out, and why the clock runs out in ten. Full recording for members.

Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair

A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.

A cult that scores your smile heads to gamescom

Zeitgeist Studio's WINGS-winning debut makes performed happiness a survival mechanic, ahead of a Q1 2027 release through HYPER REAL.

CONTROL filled a Peckham gallery with unplayable games

OHSH Projects argued that videogame aesthetics already remade contemporary art, and staged the show itself like a game.