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It Goes Wrong, Fast: What to Play, August 28

Three of us had our legs blown off.

Thank you for tuning in and not rewatching the GTA VI trailer, over and over and over again.

First, though: the recording is up. Cameron Granger joined us for Gaming Club on Tuesday to talk about sidechain, his ten-minute warehouse party at the end of the world: why the timer exists, where the Vietnam vet and the pigeon came from, and the question he leaves you with: could we just break the clock entirely? Forty-seven minutes, and it's yours as a member. Watch it here.

Every bench in Helsinki Online sits where it really is

Pietari Niinimäki is rebuilding the city as an open-world hangout, one tree at a time.

When the pixels cut away, Tenebris Somnia goes live-action

Andrés Borghi—the VFX artist behind When Evil Lurks—and Saibot Studios shot the film sequences with real actors and practical effects; New Blood publishes October 16.

Voxel rendering of speculative London towers from You+Pea’s London Developers Toolkit

An architecture studio now works inside game space

Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson write up their practice for AD’s Staged issue, arguing games reach audiences buildings never will.

A toy blaster rewired with a tangle of jumper cables, above a list of the eight exhibiting students

An evening of alt-ctrl games closed a Berlin summer school

Press Play capped a month of hardware-and-play experiments at School of Machines, with Niklas Roy, Chloe Desmoineaux, and Lorenzo Pilia among the instructors.

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Every bench in Helsinki Online sits where it really is

When the pixels cut away, Tenebris Somnia goes live-action

An architecture studio now works inside game space

An evening of alt-ctrl games closed a Berlin summer school