Sahej Rahal's Atithi interrupts our sense of touch

Touch-reactive engravings let visitors interrupt AI creatures roaming a ruined temple

A game about Guantánamo is being built with its survivor

Mansoor Adayfi, held without charge for 14 years, joined Joseph DeLappe and Biome Collective as co-creator rather than subject.

Murlo Builds a World You Can Play

Chris Pell spent a decade reading dance floors. Now he is building a Luddite point-and-click alone, for one player at a time, with an album hidden inside it.

Gossamer Fog’s XP+10 spreads 40-plus artists across 24 sites

Ten years of showing game engines as art earns the Deptford gallery a 48-hour weekender, plotted through a personalized interactive map.

Christine Sun Kim's MacArthur brings games one step closer

The fellowship citation names a playable installation, and the artist's voice-controlled speech therapy remake runs in your browser now.

Game engines meet stagecraft in dmstfctn’s Rhizome talk

Also, a purgatory for cheating AIs built as a theatre, where the audience runs the lights by phone.

Code is a plaything in Daniel Temkin’s esolangs

Natasha Chuk’s new essay reads esoteric programming languages through Oulipo, Aarseth’s ergodics, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

A MAZE. / Berlin 2027: May 5–8, with 200 early-bird tickets

The arthouse-games festival whose lineup predicts a year of coverage sets its 16th edition; award submissions may open as early as December.

John Walsh bound 21 fake games into one huge hardcover

Hollow Press's 176-page anthology, written by the YouTuber known as Super Eyepatch Wolf, reviews titles that exist only as art, Vermis to Bird World.

A philosopher files Grand Theft Auto next to de Sade

Daisy Dixon’s Depraved treats games as full participants in the history of dangerous art, not late examples.

The boss fight is offscreen in Leonardo Devito's Dark Souls

The Florence-born painter puts the monitor, the keyboard and an unimpressed onlooker on canvas

In FAKE ME, your disguise starts as a blank block

Eren Can Metin and Emre Gökçe put the verbs of 3D modeling into a multiplayer hide-and-seek round.