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.

Gaming Club: Ten minutes left at the end of the world

Cameron Granger built a warehouse party for the last night on earth and cast you as the Angel of History. Tomorrow at 11am PT, he joins us for thirty minutes to talk about it.

Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair

A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.

A cult that scores your smile heads to gamescom

Zeitgeist Studio's WINGS-winning debut makes performed happiness a survival mechanic, ahead of a Q1 2027 release through HYPER REAL.

CONTROL filled a Peckham gallery with unplayable games

OHSH Projects argued that videogame aesthetics already remade contemporary art, and staged the show itself like a game.

Invented Olympic sports demand both hands in Qilinic Games

Xiner Lan's UCLA MFA thesis installation stages pseudo-sports on a twin-joystick arcade cabinet, a ritual for building 'the great body.'

Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth

The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.

A tarot deck grows out of Paloma Dawkins's videogames

The Fool's Journey converts characters from Museum of Symmetry and the Apocablyss universe into 22 archetypes, debuting at MUTEK Forum August 26.

Mexico City street legends turn up as low-poly game skins

The anonymous account cdmx.exe models the capital's characters in PS2-era polygons, and the audience keeps asking where to download them.

tiengiungtong's rabbit hole is lined with bodhisattvas

Another chorus of can-I-play-this for a dreamlike point-and-click that does not exist yet