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.
Kill Screen Staff
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.
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.
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.
Murlo
Murlo's Luddite rhythm games wrapped a run at Aviva Studios
Five minigames from the unreleased Something Beautiful played on Factory International's Media Wall, on a controller covered in the artist's 3D-printed sculptures.
freeculture.api
The mouse in this AI war game is a demonic latex hand
freeculture.api built an idle game about autonomous weapons into a field-deployable hardshell case—and the critique is in the hardware.