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Podcast
The Dating Sim That Won't Tell You Why [Podcast]
Danny Snelson and I talk through Sagan Yee's mermaid hookup sim, Oleomingus's paradise, You+Pea's building plans and a Steel Battalion cockpit in a box.
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.
Mouthwashing
“When You Go Into Space, You Go Into Your Own Dark”
A cinematographer and two horror game makers on shooting space aboard a Baltic ferry, building a slaughterhouse inside a church and leaning into the dark.
Playlist
What Does Grand Theft Auto Do When No One Is Watching?
Everyone logged off. The hiker kept walking.
Event
[Event] Space and the Body: Aniara, Eclipsium and Mouthwashing
Cross-Conversations: Horror. Aniara cinematographer Sophie Winqvist meets the makers of Eclipsium and Mouthwashing on claustrophobia, guilt and bodies in deep space. Free and online.
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Podcast
The Sound of Dread, From Weapons to Dead Space [Podcast]
I ask Ryan Holladay and Jason Graves how dread gets built before the scare, and why a game score has to wait on a player in a way a film score never does.
GAMES THIS WEEK
Experimental Game Culture This Week: Oct. 14, 2026
Sagan Yee gives mermaids the life cycle of Pacific salmon, Blood Dungeon's intro begins as a pad of sticky notes, and a 2016 profile finds Kitty Horrorshow, a former witch, building worlds that treat you as a trespasser. Plus In Full Bloom, where a creature eats its way up to continents.
News
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Releases The Eyes Under the Sky
The free browser horror game, part of a comics series of the same name, is set in public toilets
MILES BUCKLE
Miles Buckle invents a Paul McCartney idle game from 1998
A fake anniversary reel for a CD-ROM that never shipped has commenters swapping memories of temp assignments nobody was ever given.
News
Dave Shuff's Big Steel Battalion Box Wins Editor's Choice
The homemade mech cockpit for Capcom's 2002 Xbox game returned to Maker Faire Bay Area on Mare Island in September.
Dating Sim
Fish Make O-Faces, and Other Lessons From the Redding District
Sagan Yee's hookup sim asks what if mermaids lived like Pacific salmon: go home, spawn with everyone you grew up with, then die alongside the whole town.
dmstfctn
The audience writes the bars Degular raps
dmstfctn's data-labeller character learns its voice from a public browser game
Jane Jianhan Lu
A rhinestone is the only controller in Moled to Gold
Jane Jianhan Lu's divination mirror writes you a fortune from the mole you place yourself.