choreography
When you can no longer close the club, you build one
Sobriety and injury cost Ambrose Trataris the nightclub, so they rebuilt it inside VRChat, then staged it as a dance work where one body puppets another.
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.
Podcast
One Pigeon Instead of Every Clock [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet that writes a stranger’s life, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour clock, and a pigeon romance rebuilt after its map switched off.
Playlist
Gradually, Then Suddenly: What to Play, September 4
Turns out the whole universe is bent steel
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Podcast
The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.
supercut
Christian Marclay's The Clock is a game of looking
Twenty-four hours of film assembled entirely from clocks, and the behavior it produces is not watching at all but sightseeing, closer to a game than cinema.
Playlist
It Goes Wrong, Fast: What to Play, August 28
Three of us had our legs blown off.
GAMES THIS WEEK
Games This Week: Aug. 26, 2026
A cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's whole life out of Japan's census. Plus a pigeon romance killed by a shut-down map service and rebuilt on open maps, a 2011 Kill Screen piece on toddlers who play before they can score, and Queen's Domain, a murky first-person heir to King's Field.
Gaming Club
Gaming Club: Ten minutes left at the end of the world
Cameron Granger built a warehouse party for the last night on earth. We spent forty-five minutes with him on what a game can borrow from a night out, and why the clock runs out in ten. Full recording for members.
Rising
Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair
A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.
Playlist
You Up?: What to Play, August 21
Just a little twist of the truth.
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Podcast
A Sea Made of Plastic [Podcast]
We go in on a police station built wrong on purpose, films rebuilt as late-'90s games nobody can play, and why Mario 64's water still felt like water.
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Podcast
Games You Remember That Never Existed [Podcast]
Plus the Ouija board of tabletop, JPEG face, and a money laundering simulator