cdmx.exe
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.
Kill Screen Staff
tiengiungtong
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
OTHERWORLDS
OTHERWORLDS won A MAZE's Human Human Machine Award
Sophia Bulgakova's mixed-reality ritual, drawn from Ukrainian pagan practice, took the Berlin festival's prize for collective presence.
Lucid Blocks
Dollar-store junk becomes the item sprites of Lucid Blocks
Eric Alfaro photographed household clutter into a Minecraft that runs on dream logic
Barragán
A crucifix USB necklace carries a Barragán video game
THE END IS NEAR, made for Victor Barragán's label by Alex Sinh Nguyen, ships as $270 jewelry.
Queen's Domain
Freshly Baked Games serves its King's Field revival crunchy
The dev jokes that teeth would wear down chewing on this game—Dark Souls's first-person ancestor finally gets an heir, and the demo is out.
Gray Area
Latvian bogs became a live instrument at Gray Area
Pierce Warnecke and Matthew Biederman performed Phytomorphic Topologies in San Francisco on Aug. 21, playing photogrammetry and field recordings in real time.
Gray Area
Gray Area now lends out books, kits and gadgets
Anastasia Chernysheva's Cybersentics (little) Library launched Aug. 20 in San Francisco as a collection its own community stocks.
News
Rovertronic Turns Super Mario 64 Into a 360 POV Video
It's sick (or will make you so)
Danny Snelson
The Little Database expands into a desktop directory
A year after the University of Minnesota Press book, UCLA's Danny Snelson rebuilds its resources as a clickable fake OS—podcasts, reviews, and dozens of small archives included.
POLYMORPH
The health packs in POLYMORPH have to die first
Intron Interactive's biological roguelike casts you as a cancerous pathogen; the comments immediately turned healing into a moral problem.
Ville Kallio
Helsinki names Ville Kallio an Artist of the Year
The Cruelty Squad creator shares the city's annual 5,000-euro award with soul singer Emilia Sisco and knitwear designer Juha Vehmaanperä.