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.

The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

I ask a cinematographer and two horror game makers how a ferry became a spaceship, a church became a slaughterhouse and why the dark does the real work.

Auriea Harvey Talks Net Art, Tale of Tales and Sculpture

In a new conversation with critic Louis Bury, The Endless Forest co-creator traces a career spent following each medium until the magic ran out.

Daniel Temkin's Folders Language Gets a Browser Emulator

The esolang, where code is only nested empty directories, can now run without anyone filling a desktop with thousands of them.

Every Piece in This Chess Set Is a Tuned Brass Bell

Fish Fabrications made the instrument for sound artist Yuri Suzuki during Suzuki's years at Pentagram and has only now shown it.

Nine game worlds become guided meditations in Waldenstein

Gregory Nachmanovitch's 2018 landscape films screen free online as VRAL 139 through Oct. 29, with an interview on the politics of the pastoral.