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A black pigeon flying over a pale 3D New York, with speech bubbles reading 'your wings are too small' and 'I'm flattered, but no'

Wristwork

Wristwork rebuilt its dead pigeon romance on open maps

The London studio's lockdown-era collectathon returns at true city scale — hundreds of thousands of birds, and one of them is your soulmate.

Gaming Club

Gaming Club: Ten minutes left at the end of the world

Cameron Granger built a warehouse party for the last night on earth. We spent forty-five minutes with him on what a game can borrow from a night out, and why the clock runs out in ten. Full recording for members.

Rising

Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair

A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.

Hand-drawn crowd of figures in rosy-cheeked smiling masks raising their hands

Zeitgeist Studio

A cult that scores your smile heads to gamescom

Zeitgeist Studio's WINGS-winning debut makes performed happiness a survival mechanic, ahead of a Q1 2027 release through HYPER REAL.

CONTROL

CONTROL filled a Peckham gallery with unplayable games

OHSH Projects argued that videogame aesthetics already remade contemporary art, and staged the show itself like a game.

Arcade cabinet installation of Qilinic Games glowing in a darkened gallery

Xiner Lan

Invented Olympic sports demand both hands in Qilinic Games

Xiner Lan's UCLA MFA thesis installation stages pseudo-sports on a twin-joystick arcade cabinet, a ritual for building 'the great body.'

A rendered face peers through a gap between fingers in a frame from YUHA

Alina Nazmeeva

Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth

The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.

Fanned colorful tarot cards beneath the words Tarot Deck Major Arcana

Paloma Dawkins

A tarot deck grows out of Paloma Dawkins's videogames

The Fool's Journey converts characters from Museum of Symmetry and the Apocablyss universe into 22 archetypes, debuting at MUTEK Forum August 26.

Low-poly 3D model of a man with dreadlocks wearing a blue cap and white airline jersey, rendered in PlayStation 2-era graphics

cdmx.exe

Mexico City street legends turn up as low-poly game skins

The anonymous account cdmx.exe models the capital's characters in PS2-era polygons, and the audience keeps asking where to download them.

A first-person view down a rocky tunnel toward a small distant figure

tiengiungtong

tiengiungtong's rabbit hole is lined with bodhisattvas

Another chorus of can-I-play-this for a dreamlike point-and-click that does not exist yet

Masked participants stand in green light, connected by a glowing cable

OTHERWORLDS

OTHERWORLDS won A MAZE's Human Human Machine Award

Sophia Bulgakova's mixed-reality ritual, drawn from Ukrainian pagan practice, took the Berlin festival's prize for collective presence.

Lucid Blocks

Dollar-store junk becomes the item sprites of Lucid Blocks

Eric Alfaro photographed household clutter into a Minecraft that runs on dream logic

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