Hexin Cai's Out of Focus Rebuilds a Childhood Flat in Pixels

The free Bartlett graduation project sets resolution against memory: some rooms return as coarse mosaics, others almost sharp.

Nullsleep Rebuilds nullsleep.com as a Life Archive

Jeremiah Johnson’s site counts the days around 300 dated sets and releases, from his 1980 birth to a projected death in 2057.

Two New Game Books Are Due From Hollow Press This Month

Brad Hock and Andrea Laperni extend the Italian publisher’s catalog of printed play, timed to Lucca Comics & Games.

Fascist Dentist Card Game Smashes Deserving Faces

Studio 2084 is sending its print-and-play tooth-collecting brawl to anyone who donates before the anti-capitalist festival

EXTRA Residency Talk Brings Off-Market Game Art to Arles

Alix Bugat and Elouan Le Bars close the Brussels-Arles residency for experimental video games with a free talk at Octobre Numérique.

Omnia Ex Natura Ends Casey Reas's Online HEK Residency

The Processing co-founder turns a weekly watercolor into a score for software agents, live, one last time before the show closes.

After the Shell Turns a Near-Death Experience Into VR

Pierre Moulin's 360-degree film premieres in the Kaohsiung Film Festival's XR Competition, with resin sculptures pulled out of its world.

Agentic Aesthetics Puts Rhizome's Panel Series on AI Agents

Ian Cheng, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Gene Kogan and Franco Mattes present at the New Museum, alongside the Intersubjectivity IV book launch.

Cowboy Postcapitalism Stages a Live Zombie-Apocalypse Run

Total Refusal, the Vienna collective that turns mainstream games into political theater, performs at Games Transformed in London.

Rimowa’s New Campaign Film Stars Hideo Kojima

Directed by Otman Qrita, the one-minute short sells motion capture as craft as the designer’s Xbox horror project moves through production.

“When You Go Into Space, You Go Into Your Own Dark”

A cinematographer and two horror game makers on shooting space aboard a Baltic ferry, building a slaughterhouse inside a church and leaning into the dark.

A spider named Karl guards Fallgrade's rotating city

vladkudas's black-and-white brutalist horror demo is out now, with walls that become floors as you run.

Podcast

The Backrooms Were Always About Games [Podcast]

Plus getting lost in Goa and a blob of petroleum animates

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Your Body Is Being Compressed

Lisa Jamhoury on Lossy, Grief, and the Digital Body

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Telling the Bees: Kyriaki Goni on Building a Game from a Stranger's Gift

In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees — her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.

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What Happens When the Internet Goes Out?

I sat down with Lou Faroux—French artist and filmmaker—to talk about growing up on The Sims, why she spent years making films before she ever touched a game engine, and what it means to treat internet collapse as an art subject rather than a catastrophe. Lou's

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The Living Archive: Jakob Kudsk Steensen on Art, Ecology, and the Game Engine

In this conversation, we'll trace the arc of that practice through Otherworlds, Steensen's survey exhibition at Centre PHI in Montréal, which gathers five installations across five distinct spaces and spans roughly 15 years of work.

Events

Building Worlds While the Actual World Burns

On April 17th, I'm bringing together two artists who are both making work about the climate crisis—and both are reckoning with what it means to build within the systems driving that crisis.

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He Fed a Classic Anthropology Text To Make An AI Game. Here's What Happened.

In 1922, Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific changed anthropology forever, introducing the world to "thick description" and the rigors of deep fieldwork. A century later, researcher Michael Hoffman is bringing that text into the future. In this episode, Jamin Warren sits down with Hoffman—a

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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.