Daniel Temkin
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.
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A MAZE
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, with award submissions to follow.
Fake Games
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.
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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.
FACT Liverpool
A three-day conference asks how images train the real
FACT Liverpool's three-day conference on how synthetic images get made and read, Oct. 2 to 4, with McKenzie Wark, Rosa Menkman and Simone C. Niquille.
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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
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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.
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A painted afterlife anchors Prison of Husks
Glass Head Dolls' doll wakes in the Lithos Plateau hunting a lost love
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Falling blocks got the White House a copyright threat
Build the Wall vanished from arcade.gov days after The Tetris Company's warning.
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Walaber's Reason and Rhyme is co-op for exactly two
Tim FitzRandolph's Flipnote-styled island puzzler lands October 15,
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Zhou Yichen's GRANDMA is coming to a metal cartridge
Backers can have someone they love redrawn as a pixel character in the Game Boy eulogy.
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A precision platformer drawn in Ben Day dots
Aggro Crab's first signing is ThirtyThree's Rebounder