BETWEEN MEETINGS Puts Two Offline Chatbots in Endless Debate

Sarah Rothberg's solo show at Baruch's New Media Artspace is AI avatars arguing in a void

Autodrama Stages a Chamber Play for Self-Directing Actors

Gary Zhexi Zhang, Amant's New York fall resident, gives a performance lecture on a game engine stage where characters, lights and cameras run themselves.

Oracle Index lets crypto miners program the cinema

latency.club, the platform of Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn, imagines a future Cuba of prediction markets and AI divination at Medialab Matadero through Dec. 13.

A bedside iPhone is the only controller in Abel & I

Aurora Mititelu synthesized the perfectly distant boyfriend from an archive of old texts, then gave the character an Unreal Engine world.

Cameron Lai Turns Firewalls Into Levels in S.H.E.L.L.

The Unreal Engine game came out of the Bartlett's Cinematic and Videogame Architecture program and showed at its Autumn Show.

A horse holds a book tour in Someone to Steal Horses With

Dylan Pailes-Friedman's Los Santos machinima, shot partly on Super 16mm, is streaming free after a run of nearly 30 festivals.

Caves of Qud Gets a 1,500-Copy Physical Edition

Freehold Games' simulation roguelike, nearly 20 years in the making, lands on a Switch 2 cartridge with a fold-out overworld map and a 3LP soundtrack.

The Photographer's Guide to Los Santos Adds a DLSS 5 Manual

Marco De Mutiis' free update treats Nvidia's neural renderer as one more lens for anyone making pictures inside Grand Theft Auto V.

ThinkyCon 2026 Streams Two Days of Puzzle Design Talks

Matthew Stein reports back from three months inside Japan's escape room and riddle scene, in a free online lineup with Hempuli and Evan Todd.

Digital Twin Protocol Is a LARP for Poisoning Your Own Data

Fei Fei leads a two-session counter-surveillance workshop at Games Transformed Festival in East London, where building a character doubles as evasion training.

Escape > Control > Play Sends Its Consoles Home With Winners

Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery becomes a playable lounge, with Derek Yu's fictional 1980s LX hardware rebuilt 10 times, a giant bowler hat controller and a queer games timeline.

Scoring Fear: Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves on the Sound of Dread

Two horror composers on building dread from almost nothing: a muted brass collage, music that waits on the player and a small metal oil rig that screams.