Tenebris Somnia
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.
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Architecture
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.
School of Machines
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.
Lou Fauroux
Lou Fauroux's WhatRemains, Genesis screens at MUTEK Forum
Set in 2048, the film gives Google a cure for death — until hackers leak the source code to everyone. In Montreal Wednesday, with a Q&A to follow.
Pierre Moulin
A game tower crowned Diversion's tenth anniversary in Paris
Pierre Moulin's new game THE HOST, scored by Octave Magescas, showed alongside four works from the Distraction collective.
Playdate
When the crank turns, Ancient Loops collides its cards
Nicolas Tilly's Playdate sound toy drops levels and fail states for resonances, ritual, and a 30-second performance recorder.
Federico Solmi
Offenbach scores Federico Solmi's Unity studio footage
A process reel shows hand-painted surfaces wrapped onto 3D models — the game engine used as camera and stage, never as game.
Tukoni
Tukoni: Forest Keepers brings Oksana Bula's books to Steam
The illustrator behind the series stayed on as art director, and the wordless woodland fable plays in any language.
Jackie Turpin
Jackie Turpin's tennis project starts with Nadal's serve
The UCLA animator rotoscoped the swing frame by frame to test a 2D-to-3D pipeline, working the seam where drawing meets simulation.
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.
BREAKOUT BABY
A free demo turns Pac-Man into first-person baby horror
BREAKOUT BABY, from developer STH and publisher Assemble Entertainment, hands you an infant and a maze
Noby Noby Boy
The Young and the Scoreless
Toddlers step out into the world of consoles