News
Name of the Will's daylight cult reaches a playable demo
Zeitgeist Studio's masked compliance horror joined Fellow Traveller's Official Selection ahead of a Q1 2027 release from HYPER REAL.
Jamin Warren
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
arcade
An arcade with deep soul ties pops up on Great Jones Street
Temitope Olujobi and CultureHub gather ten games animated by inner lives, musical expression and ever-present spirits, Thursdays and Fridays, Nov. 12 to 20 in NYC.
News
In Dallas, a performer becomes the avatars of Disappear Here
Eva Papamargariti stages a mythology of memes and AI prompts across four screens, then sends a live body in to copy it.
News
Six artists tackle pauses and glances as data in Soft Signals
Mélanie Courtinat and Cezar Mocan join a Novembre Numérique exhibition at the Institut français in Cluj-Napoca.
Currently Making
“It’s About Skinning Faces, and That’s All You Need to Know”
Adam Pype’s new horror game wants you to be the monster.
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Podcast
Adam Pype Hands You the Knife [Podcast]
I ask Adam Pype why SKINFACE, a game about peeling off strangers’ faces, sits easier with the squeamish than horror that happens to you, and what he makes next.
Playlist
The Whistle and the Sink: What to Play, October 30
Blow the whistle. Do not look in the train.
Brainfruit Studio
Brainfruit's Sheeps turns a sleep trick into a roguelite
Rob Dubbin and Garrett Miller's game premiered at Nick Sylvester's LA gallery, scored live, beside wool landscapes by Miller's mother.
GAMES THIS WEEK
A Metal Oil Rig Is Screaming: Oct. 28, 2026
Two horror composers on building dread from a muted brass collage, a chess set where every piece is a tuned bell and a 2011 interview with the historian who kept Assassin's Creed II honest. Plus a hand-drawn deckbuilder where card order decides the duel. All in this week's Experimental Games Weekly.
Dead Space
Scoring Fear: Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves on the Sound of Dread
Two horror composers on building dread from almost nothing: a muted brass collage, music that waits on the player and a small metal oil rig that screams.
Podcast
The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]
I ask a cinematographer and two horror game makers how a ferry became a spaceship, a church became a slaughterhouse and why the dark does the real work.
Playlist
Choose Where You Fall: What to Play, October 23
Every wall is a floor if you try.