Barragán
A crucifix USB necklace carries a Barragán video game
THE END IS NEAR, made for Victor Barragán's label by Alex Sinh Nguyen, ships as $270 jewelry.
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Queen's Domain
Freshly Baked Games serves its King's Field revival crunchy
The dev jokes that teeth would wear down chewing on this game—Dark Souls's first-person ancestor finally gets an heir, and the demo is out.
Playlist
You Up?: What to Play, August 21
Just a little twist of the truth.
Danny Snelson
The Little Database expands into a desktop directory
A year after the University of Minnesota Press book, UCLA's Danny Snelson rebuilds its resources as a clickable fake OS—podcasts, reviews, and dozens of small archives included.
POLYMORPH
The health packs in POLYMORPH have to die first
Intron Interactive's biological roguelike casts you as a cancerous pathogen; the comments immediately turned healing into a moral problem.
Ville Kallio
Helsinki names Ville Kallio an Artist of the Year
The Cruelty Squad creator shares the city's annual 5,000-euro award with soul singer Emilia Sisco and knitwear designer Juha Vehmaanperä.
Murlo
Murlo's Luddite rhythm games wrapped a run at Aviva Studios
Five minigames from the unreleased Something Beautiful played on Factory International's Media Wall, on a controller covered in the artist's 3D-printed sculptures.
freeculture.api
The mouse in this AI war game is a demonic latex hand
freeculture.api built an idle game about autonomous weapons into a field-deployable hardshell case—and the critique is in the hardware.
machinima
Miles Buckle Makes Games You Can't Play
Miles Buckle rebuilds Rear Window, Amarcord and Hitchcock's Rope as late-'90s games nobody will ever play, and the impossibility is exactly the point.
ALICE BUCKNELL
A whole triennial is named for a platformer's grace period
Alice Bucknell's Coyote Time—an eco sci-fi text adventure premiering at St. Louis's City Museum this fall—gave Counterpublic 2026 its title.
Larry Achiampong
Four decades of consoles move into the museum
Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.
Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal's Azalabad salvages a drowned village
The open-world civilization built for ifa's ARE YOU FOR REAL is still playable on New Art City—the browser as exhibition hall.