Scoring Fear: The Composers Behind Weapons and Dead Space

Cross-Conversations: Horror. Weapons and Resident Evil composer Ryan Holladay meets Dead Space composer Jason Graves on scoring fear for a screen versus for a player. Free and online, 13 October.

A dice-roll gamebook holds Cuba's Axie Infinity collapse

Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn compress years of fieldwork among players, sponsors and hackers into numbered sections and multiple endings.

An AI fish is the lead in Harold Hejazi's new stage game

Legend of Harri Kala opens October 9 in Espoo, Finland, where a Baltic grayling listens, answers and turns whatever the room says into that night's myth.

Alan Kwan rebuilt Scent with a rock-ing controller

A dark room at Undershed in Bristol, a five-kilogram rock for a controller, and a war-torn city seen through the eyes of a stray dog, screened for everyone watching.

Not With a Scream, But With a Bloop: What to Play, October 2

It just might be wearing a funny hat.

Eva and Franco Mattes' cursed cat now breeds in the dataset

A robot photographed the ANGRY AS FUK meme around the clock so image models inherit its mood

NB Spiders' estrogen quest went from jam to Rijksakademie

A sharp, quippy quest on what we do for love

When you slice these beetles, the halves play Ableton

Noland Chaliha's procedural insects refuse to die

A procedural disco eats its own memory on purpose

MAZiN built a fake PSX, a ROM corruptor to break it with, and a nightclub that degrades in real time.

A Whitney Biennial artwork is a game you play from home

Leo Castañeda's Camoflux Recall Grotto outlasts the galleries on artport

Bouchra brings a coyote filmmaker to MUBI

Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki's animated feature moves between New York and Casablanca in near-photoreal rooms — streaming now.

kidkanevil wrote the soundtrack to an imaginary RPG

Bubble maps a psychedelic dimension-hopper that exists only in Gerard Roberts' head—and in fourteen tracks of it.