Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren

Miles Buckle Makes Games You Can't Play

Miles Buckle rebuilds Rear Window, Amarcord and Hitchcock's Rope as late-'90s games nobody will ever play, and the impossibility is exactly the point.

A whole triennial is named for a platformer's grace period

Alice Bucknell's Coyote Time—an eco sci-fi text adventure premiering at St. Louis's City Museum this fall—gave Counterpublic 2026 its title.

Four decades of consoles move into the museum

Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.

Sahej Rahal's Azalabad salvages a drowned village

The open-world civilization built for ifa's ARE YOU FOR REAL is still playable on New Art City—the browser as exhibition hall.

Mitch Anzuoni is building a money laundering simulator

Offshore, made with Pete Christian, treats the criminal network as a sign system where signification is the gameplay.

A sculptural camera turns a game engine into cinema

Kevin Peter He and Dan Gorelick staged PASSAGE at an off-SIGGRAPH night in LA—visuals and score as two instruments answering each other live.

Plum Road Tea Dream's grief sanctuary gains a mausoleum

Jira Duguid's level joins six other sanctuaries built by an avatar called S., in a game whose only verbs are walking, sitting and listening.

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A drowning, a riot, and a bike ride through San Andreas

Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film

Cregger says he set out to write a game as a movie, and mimicked Resident Evil 4's healing items exactly. The props do work the film cannot actually run.

A paper notebook is the entire HUD in Boring Car Stories

Players are asking for a physical map with no you-are-here marker and road signs instead of a minimap. They want more analog friction, not less.

Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy

You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.

When the mocap suit drifts, the drift becomes choreography

Letta Shtohryn's live XR performance starts at a 5,000-year-old Maltese temple and ends with an avatar slipping loose from the body driving it.