ALICE BUCKNELL
A whole triennial is named for a platformer's grace period
Alice Bucknell's Coyote Time—an eco sci-fi text adventure premiering at St. Louis's City Museum this fall—gave Counterpublic 2026 its title.
Kill Screen Staff
Larry Achiampong
Four decades of consoles move into the museum
Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.
Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal's Azalabad salvages a drowned village
The open-world civilization built for ifa's ARE YOU FOR REAL is still playable on New Art City—the browser as exhibition hall.
Mitch Anzuoni
Mitch Anzuoni is building a money laundering simulator
Offshore, made with Pete Christian, treats the criminal network as a sign system where signification is the gameplay.
Kevin Peter He
A sculptural camera turns a game engine into cinema
Kevin Peter He and Dan Gorelick staged PASSAGE at an off-SIGGRAPH night in LA—visuals and score as two instruments answering each other live.
Plum Road Tea Dream
Plum Road Tea Dream's grief sanctuary gains a mausoleum
Jira Duguid's level joins six other sanctuaries built by an avatar called S., in a game whose only verbs are walking, sitting and listening.
Resident Evil
Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film
Cregger says he set out to write a game as a movie, and mimicked Resident Evil 4's healing items exactly. The props do work the film cannot actually run.
Boring Car Stories
A paper notebook is the entire HUD in Boring Car Stories
Players are asking for a physical map with no you-are-here marker and road signs instead of a minimap. They want more analog friction, not less.
Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy
You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.
Letta Shtohryn
When the mocap suit drifts, the drift becomes choreography
Letta Shtohryn's live XR performance starts at a 5,000-year-old Maltese temple and ends with an avatar slipping loose from the body driving it.
arcade
Wonderville's new cabinet Step Right Up! crosses a Zoltar machine with vector graphics
Game, cabinet, UI, voice, animatronic head and a custom trackball each get a credit
opera
ONLY SLIME rebuilt their computer-game opera as AFTERLIFE,
Visitors are so far inside the game they're asking for a reset button.