Playdate
When the crank turns, Ancient Loops collides its cards
Nicolas Tilly's Playdate sound toy drops levels and fail states for resonances, ritual, and a 30-second performance recorder.
Kill Screen Staff
Federico Solmi
Offenbach scores Federico Solmi's Unity studio footage
A process reel shows hand-painted surfaces wrapped onto 3D models — the game engine used as camera and stage, never as game.
Tukoni
Tukoni: Forest Keepers brings Oksana Bula's books to Steam
The illustrator behind the series stayed on as art director, and the wordless woodland fable plays in any language.
Jackie Turpin
Jackie Turpin's tennis project starts with Nadal's serve
The UCLA animator rotoscoped the swing frame by frame to test a 2D-to-3D pipeline, working the seam where drawing meets simulation.
BREAKOUT BABY
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
Wristwork
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.
Zeitgeist Studio
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
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.
Xiner Lan
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
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.
Paloma Dawkins
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.
Gray Area
SFEMF's 25th anniversary gala put Carl Stone on the bill
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival took over Gray Area on Aug. 22 with Kush Arora, Luciano Chessa, Wobbly and Sly Ida.