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Blood Dungeon

Messhof's Blood Dungeon, a platforming autoshooter, arrives Aug. 25

Mark Essen drew it himself again: a weekend Game Maker sketch, animated on a $50 tablet in parked cars, grown over years into a bullet heaven you parkour through.

Signet City

Gareth Martin reveals Signet City, a first-person fungalpunk RPG

The Citizen Sleeper creator casts you as a parasite in a monochrome 1980s British industrial city, with dice checks swayed by your host's emotions.

An orange, many-toothed creature with sun-ray spikes stands in a green underwater thicket.

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doku_zen built Balming Tiger's "Janjan" video out of stop-motion puppets

Photographed puppets standing up in a 3D scene as flat cards, the same arrangement Doom used in 1993.

The interior of a tank rendered in low-fi 3D, crowded with manual levers and instruments

Horror

A tank with no interface is Wrong Organ's next horror

Carcass Clad seats three players inside the Yksiö, every lever manual, in a city whose machines are dressed in gilded livestock.

Two people sit at a pair of arcade racing cabinets labeled ALT TAB, each with a steering wheel and a screen.

Experimental Game Cultures

ALT+TAB is an arcade racer driven through an office sim

Tamás Hegyi's cabinet was one of seven works in Experimental Game Cultures' master exhibition at the Angewandte in Vienna, July 1 to 4.

Exhibition poster with an isometric floor plan and text reading Featuring 30 Video Game and Moving Image Works

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Thirty screen works put games and film in the same room

Onassis ONX hung prototypes beside finished video, arguing that one pipeline—engines, AI tooling, circulation—now shapes both.

A hand-drawn table covered in dice, trinkets and snacks in Dice Have No Eyes

roguelike

Franek and Max Cahill built a surreal roguelike about greed

Dice Have No Eyes is half the Arco team going all in on luck: feed your dice dumplings, roll once too often, and lose everything.

Promotional graphic reading Curating the Digital Program, Jul. 08 to Dec. 09, 2026, set over a photo of two people standing on a projected floor.

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Node Center put game engines on its curating syllabus

Applications opened June 1 for a six-month online program out of Berlin that teaches worldbuilding as a way to make exhibitions.

Three panels: felt, paper and pens on a craft table, then two views of a felt character standing in a 3D game world.

A MAZE

Felt and hot glue built a walking sim at A MAZE

Six developers from hapshapen games, martianwho studios and the Godot Foundation led Handcrafting Your Game in Berlin on May 15.

Gallery installation view of LoVid’s textile works and video monitors at Picture Theory

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Google Photos is the palette in LoVid’s Spark Frame

The duo’s first Picture Theory solo hung a machine-sorted memory reel beside the signal videos they cut at the Experimental Television Center in 2003.

A bleak pixel art landscape from O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT showing a lone traveller on a ruined continent

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Dean Moynihan Announces O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT

The survival game, about carrying a cursed artifact across a ruined medieval continent, is wishlist-stage on Steam with no release date.

A split view of the Hudson River showing life above and below the waterline, from The River is a Circle

Marina Zurkow

When it rains in Manhattan, it rains in Santa Fe

Marina Zurkow and James Schmitz's The River is a Circle regenerates the Hudson from live weather, tides and ship traffic — now at the Thoma Collection.