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
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The Young and the Scoreless
Toddlers step out into the world of consoles
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: Ten minutes left at the end of the world
Cameron Granger built a warehouse party for the last night on earth and cast you as the Angel of History. Tomorrow at 11am PT, he joins us for thirty minutes to talk about it.
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.
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 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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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
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Why This Game About the Haitian Revolution Has No Bullets
There's already a game about the Haitian Revolution. It's part of Assassin's Creed. You sneak around, you stab people, you "free the slaves"—and the game gives you an achievement notification. Dom Rabrun thinks that's bullshit.
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Silicon Valley in a Sand Trap with Sam Ghantous
The same silica that powers your GPU fills the sand traps at Augusta National. Artist Sam Ghantous joins us to discuss "your golf course made my GPU," his three-channel video installation that traces the geological origins of our digital obsessions.
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Exploring the material culture of games with metalwork, jewelry, and a little bit of horror
Whether through wearable pieces or digital triptychs, Lauren’s projects make a space where past and future, alchemy and technology, collide.
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How to design political games with a broken heart
We spoke with Mario about his design process of games and live-action role-play experiences, how he incorporates research on politics and labor into his creative practice, and how he is shifting from commercial work to personal practice in the fine-art world.
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Sam and Andy Rolfes put the life in livesteam
Sam and Andy sat down with us to speak about their 3D modeling software from childhood, why improv comedy is seminal for their practice, and the game they’re designing—fingers crossed, the first of many.
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley creates game worlds from autonomous archives
We speak with Danielle about the archive as an always-moving thing, why she’s attracted to low-fi aesthetics, and her new fascination with pirates.
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Rachel Rossin makes entropy from infinity
Artist Rachel Rossin speaks with us on her childhood underwater, the illusory nature of immersive technology, and the need to return to entropy.
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Salome Asega on cultivating the ecosystem of art and technology
Salome Asega told us about her hyper-real upbringing in Las Vegas, the trials of working within the uncharted territory of art and tech, and the power for participatory work to destabilize the long-held role of the artist.
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Gayatri Kodikal excavates the ruins of history, time, and play
Indian artist Gayatri Kodikal speaks with us about the simultaneous specificity and freedom that comes with working in games, disrupting western notions of time and progression, and how the concept of shapeshifting guides her work.
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Yasmin Elayat believes art drives innovation
Yasmin Elayat tells us about how working in a museum space led her to spatial and volumetric filmmaking, demystifying the role of creative technologist, and what it’s like to run a tech company fueled by creativity—one that continually redefines itself alongside its community.
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Nicole He on talking to computers
We speak with Nicole about what distinguishes the industry of video games and that of creative technology, the particularities of one’s voice as a method to activate technology, and how behind every digital project is a living, breathing human.
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Monument Valley's Lea Schönfelder on designing within constraints
We spoke to Lea Schönfelder, a game designer on Monument Valley 2, about the differences between games and experiences, the difficulty of designing something easy, and how limits foster elegant design.