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Players sitting and lying on a patterned carpet, connected by lengths of thread, during a LARP workshop

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Digital Twin Protocol Is a LARP for Poisoning Your Own Data

Fei Fei leads a two-session counter-surveillance workshop at Games Transformed Festival in East London, where building a character doubles as evasion training.

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Escape > Control > Play Sends Its Consoles Home With Winners

Drexel's Pearlstein Gallery becomes a playable lounge, with Derek Yu's fictional 1980s LX hardware rebuilt 10 times, a giant bowler hat controller and a queer games timeline.

A digital sculpture by Auriea Harvey titled The Dance of Death and Time

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Auriea Harvey Talks Net Art, Tale of Tales and Sculpture

In a new conversation with critic Louis Bury, The Endless Forest co-creator traces a career spent following each medium until the magic ran out.

A black-and-white maze beside a topographic map of islands, two renderings of the same Folders program structure

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Daniel Temkin's Folders Language Gets a Browser Emulator

The esolang, where code is only nested empty directories, can now run without anyone filling a desktop with thousands of them.

Brass chess pieces shaped as small bells standing in the holes of a perforated metal board

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Every Piece in This Chess Set Is a Tuned Brass Bell

Fish Fabrications made the instrument for sound artist Yuri Suzuki during Suzuki's years at Pentagram and has only now shown it.

A first-person view over a rifle scope across a golden autumn forest in a hunting game

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Nine game worlds become guided meditations in Waldenstein

Gregory Nachmanovitch's 2018 landscape films screen free online as VRAL 139 through Oct. 29, with an interview on the politics of the pastoral.

Red and white cover art for Bleed Map, a hand-drawn map texture with the title and the designer's name

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Bleed Map Is a Keepsake Game Played Beside Another Game

Florence Smith Nicholls' free zine turns an hour inside any title into a hand-drawn chart and a diary of the day.

A balloon-headed character in a yellow and orange rendered landscape in Eternity Egg

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Userlands Adds Movement Magick to Eternity Egg

The update to the solo-developed Early Access platformer brings 63 spells cast through wall runs, slides and dashes.

A skeletal figure faces a towering red figure of flesh and bone in a chamber lined with coiled flesh

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Tamashii's Vikintor Shares Enemy From Evangelho da Carne

The Brazilian developer has swapped the next game’s 2D player sprites for pre-rendered ones modeled on the 1998 PlayStation title Skullmonkeys.

The lantern spirit character from Palimpsest in a foggy landscape

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When you misplay Palimpsest, the film starts to distort

Guillaume Roux and Johan Delétang's one-player game drives an interactive movie for a watching audience, premiering at IDFA DocLab Nov. 12.

A hand-drawn card duel scene from Stack Order, with illustrated cards laid out below a strange creature

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Panflip Studio Teases New Stack Order Demo: Watch

The hand-animated deckbuilder, due in 2027, ties every duel to the order in which cards are placed.

A colorful cartoon robot with a fruit-like head racing along a rainbow track through space

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Speed in Vitamen is a matter of staying on the beat

Darwin Modestly is building an audio-paced racing game