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A computer-generated lynx face, distorted by a wide lens, fills the frame in a dark forest at night.

Miriam Simun Shows Contact Zone (Level 3) at The Window

The 12-minute game-engine simulation of a rewilded lynx plays 24 hours a day on Bruton Street in London through Jan. 3.

A yellow slime mold spreads across the walls of a dark circular mine tunnel in the game NIBO.

Jian Chen and Yuet Ching Lo Show Games at the Bartlett

NIBO and The Noon Loop are part of the Bartlett Autumn Show in London, which closes Oct. 11.

A visitor's face reflected in Jane Jianhan Lu's divination mirror Moled to Gold

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 through Sunday, Oct. 11.

An abstract swirl of red, violet and black

Walk, Sit, Listen: What to Play, October 9

Guess I’ll take a seat.

A round-headed cartoon figure in a blue sweater leaps and fires a large gun in a dark magenta dungeon

Sticky notes storyboarded Blood Dungeon's animated intro

Dann Beeson wanted Messhof's trailer to look a little wrong. A making-of reel shows howthat took.

Mason Lindroth’s alternate cover for Slum Lord: clay-like figures on a white ground, including a bat creature perched on a green couch and a red television, under hand-lettered title text

For Slum Lord's cover, Mason Lindroth stayed in clay

The Hylics artist drew alternate art for Tanner Simpson’s free tabletop tenant simulator.

Keiken’s monumental fiberglass mask The Divine Puppeteer suspended in a gallery

Inside Keiken’s giant mask, you wait to be reborn

The Divine Puppeteer at BALTIC is a walk-in character-select screen: a deity flicking through a catalogue of possible next bodies. Free through Jan. 17.

A low-poly bridge of orange, green and purple bricks crossing a blue river, with small objects floating above it.

When visitors trade shares, a border bridge changes shape

Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland's Adoquines para el Guadiana closed Oct. 9 in Olivenza, Spain. A browser version is still playable.

Brass, Flesh and a Genius Grant [Podcast]

Danny Snelson and I follow Murlo's solo game, a cartridge milled for a grandmother and a MacArthur that names a game, to ask who gets to be the genius.

A figure lies in a luminous simulated swamp cave of moss, roots and pale water

MoMA’s lobby becomes a living swamp for five months

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Berl-Berl returns as Wetland, a real-time simulation that trades the total view for an insect’s, Oct. 12 to March 7.

A commuter in a hard hat and safety vest confronts the player on a subway car in Moves of the Diamond Hand

Outland Game Night goes public with Cosmo D on Oct. 13

Brian Droitcour's playthrough-lecture series at Onassis ONX opens its doors for the first time, with Lawra Suits Clark playing games in progress.

A hand-drawn black-and-white scene from TOEM 2, with the round-headed photographer character amid detailed doodled scenery

The camera is still the only verb in TOEM 2

Something We Made's black-and-white sequel arrives Sept. 29 on Switch, PS5, and Steam.

A 3D figure in a black hoodie hangs from marionette strings, arms outstretched, in the installation PUPPET

1024 architecture

A dangling marionette is Vitalic's newest synthesizer

The spirit of Gary's mod lives in 1024 architecture's PUPPET installation

First-person view of a low-poly pasture with power lines, a cow, and a giant nicotine pouch tin floating in a teal sky

3denemy

In Little Five Points, a hackerspace gets a game credit

3denemy's new game/AV piece is made with sound artist Van Orhari, four more collaborators and Sandbox, a member-run Atlanta workspace.

A monumental headless votive figure with a glowing projected eye in its doorway, at BALTIC

Chitra Ganesh

Pariah Interactive animated Chitra Ganesh's Inanna myth

Journey to the Great Below retells the world's oldest recorded story in six minutes of moving image, at BALTIC's Level 4 through Jan. 17, 2027.

Red graphic reading Agency Residency, announcing open applications for the Fall 2026 virtual residency and Spring 2027 NYC residency

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Eyebeam’s next residencies ask what AI leaves us to decide

Six virtual spots pay $2,000 each under the theme AGENCY, and the first application window closes Sunday, Oct. 11.

A woman on skates spraying graffiti while soldiers shoot at her in Palestine Skating Game

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In Palestine Skating Game, the soldiers can surround you

The crowdfunded team put occupation into the movement system itself

A surreal first-person dream scene with distorted architecture from Yuha's Nightmares

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Yuha's Nightmares: Episode One arrives November 10

Yuliya Kozhemyako has shown these playable dreams from Ars Electronica to the gallery circuit

A hand-drawn mustard-yellow character stands in a hallway with scribbled web-like walls

Junwoo Park

Junwoo Park's passing moments take their first steps

A Seoul illustrator hand-animates every frame of a game about wandering, meeting people and stumbling into strange little events.

Hand-drawn dinner table from Family Reunion with plates, cutlery and a red imagined creature hovering above

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A speedrun through dinner lands in ACMI's Wobbly showcase

Leandro Waibe's Family Reunion joins a one-day program of games that keep the maker's hand visible, during Melbourne International Games Week, Oct. 11.

A dim, narrow hallway with framed pictures on both walls and a single bright wall lamp, the corridor from the game P.T.

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P.T. is being rebuilt for PC from its own PS4 code

LoreanXavier's native Windows port is neither emulator nor remake. Museum conservators have a word for the difference, and it matters for a game Konami erased.

A vast machine hovers over a flooded landscape ringed by bare trees in Jeremy Kamal's Mojo: The Floods

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Be Playful brings nine Black-made games to Leimert Park

Connor Wall's echolocating android and Jeremy Kamal's bass-irrigated floodplain lead the October 15 slate, with the makers on hand.

A lumpy orange clay creature with a brain-shaped head and goggles, labeled Brainiac, above a grid of fighter portraits

Chris Rats

Chris Rats' fighting game has fans before it has a name

One character-select reel from the HOUSE 2 artist, and the comments are already picking mains and inventing patch history.

Six stills: two from Weapons, one from Resident Evil, and one each from Dead Space, Until Dawn and Still Wakes the Deep

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Scoring Fear: The Composers Behind Weapons and Dead Space

Cross-Conversations: Horror. Weapons and Resident Evil composer Ryan Holladay meets Dead Space composer Jason Graves on scoring fear for a screen versus for a player. Free and online, 13 October.

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Miriam Simun Shows Contact Zone (Level 3) at The Window

Jian Chen and Yuet Ching Lo Show Games at the Bartlett

A rhinestone is the only controller in Moled to Gold

Walk, Sit, Listen: What to Play, October 9

Sticky notes storyboarded Blood Dungeon's animated intro

For Slum Lord's cover, Mason Lindroth stayed in clay

Inside Keiken’s giant mask, you wait to be reborn

When visitors trade shares, a border bridge changes shape

Brass, Flesh and a Genius Grant [Podcast]

MoMA’s lobby becomes a living swamp for five months

Outland Game Night goes public with Cosmo D on Oct. 13

The camera is still the only verb in TOEM 2

A dangling marionette is Vitalic's newest synthesizer

In Little Five Points, a hackerspace gets a game credit

Pariah Interactive animated Chitra Ganesh's Inanna myth

Eyebeam’s next residencies ask what AI leaves us to decide

In Palestine Skating Game, the soldiers can surround you

Yuha's Nightmares: Episode One arrives November 10

Junwoo Park's passing moments take their first steps

A speedrun through dinner lands in ACMI's Wobbly showcase

P.T. is being rebuilt for PC from its own PS4 code

Be Playful brings nine Black-made games to Leimert Park

Chris Rats' fighting game has fans before it has a name

Scoring Fear: The Composers Behind Weapons and Dead Space