Playlist
Watch "A Field Guide of Orbital Melancholy" [Playlist 289]
Ask the satellite twice, get two different lies.
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.
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Unreal Engine
The Lake Was Gone and the Satellite Kept Talking [Podcast]
Cezar Mocan's satellite finds a lake missing and generates testimony instead of doubt. Danny Snelson and I follow that instinct through games and publishing.
Gaming Club
Gaming Club: Pocket Boss with Mario von Rickenbach
Thirty minutes with Mario von Rickenbach on Pocket Boss, the game where you lie with charts to get promoted. Monday, September 21 at 9 a.m. Pacific. Members only.
Abelina
Falling stars replace the map in Gabe Askew's Abelina
Seventeen years after the Grizzly Bear fan video, the animator's afterlife platformer makes navigation an act of looking up.
satellite
Cezar Mocan's AI satellite cannot get its story straight
Cezar Mocan built a satellite that cannot agree with itself about the night a toxic lake vanished, and its unreliability turns out to be a design decision.
News
A funeral for the internet went to market at Venice
Samantha Gorman, Scarlett Kim and Danny Cannizzaro staged a smartglass ritual where the mourners co-write the eulogy with an AI.
Playlist
Trains Don't Stop: What to Play, September 11
The only way out requires a ticket.
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Playlist
Riding a Bike Through San Andreas [Podcast]
Bruno Abib on grief, the Lisbon suburbs, and why his short film about police violence needed a San Andreas sequence built from scratch.
GAMES THIS WEEK
Games This Week: Sep. 9, 2026
This week: Ambrose Trataris loses the nightclub to sobriety and injury and rebuilds it inside VRChat, ChillCash’s cursed ghost boat turns out to be a no-combat sailing mystery, and in Inkblood, an Inquisitor holds a magnifying glass to a villager’s window
oregon trail
Carol Ann Has Dysentery
Living, learning, and dying on the steps of The Oregon Trail
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.
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.