An architecture studio now works inside game space

Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson write up their practice for AD’s Staged issue, arguing games reach audiences buildings never will.

An evening of alt-ctrl games closed a Berlin summer school

Press Play capped a month of hardware-and-play experiments at School of Machines, with Niklas Roy, Chloe Desmoineaux, and Lorenzo Pilia among the instructors.

Lou Fauroux's WhatRemains, Genesis screens at MUTEK Forum

Set in 2048, the film gives Google a cure for death — until hackers leak the source code to everyone. In Montreal Wednesday, with a Q&A to follow.

A game tower crowned Diversion's tenth anniversary in Paris

Pierre Moulin's new game THE HOST, scored by Octave Magescas, showed alongside four works from the Distraction collective.

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.