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An arcade with deep soul ties pops up on Great Jones Street
Temitope Olujobi and CultureHub gather ten games animated by inner lives, musical expression and ever-present spirits, Thursdays and Fridays, Nov. 12 to 20 in NYC.
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Derek Holguin's Ex-Nihilo ii runs inside a pyramid in DTLA
A group show at 999 puts the exploration game in an arcade cabinet built by the Apocateca crew, on view through Nov. 6.
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Wonderville Adds Two New Arcade Cabinets
A launch party debuts Andy Wallace's The Indomitable Rocket Dog and Jason Corace's penguin sumo game Waddle Throttle, with a livecode.nyc algorave after.
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Wonderville Opens Applications for Wondercab Residency
The Brooklyn arcade bar will build one independent game into a custom cabinet. Winter 2026 applications close Oct. 31.
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A census-fed arcade game moves into a former coal mine
Tomo Kihara's Game of Possible Lives, rebuilt as a projection, is showing at New Media Week in Katowice.
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Scrapeboard Makes a Skateboard Deck the Controller
Blake Andrews and Frank DeMarco's fighting game shares Wonderville's floor with two rhythm games for a free night of play.
Gravity Goblins
Walls become floors on command in Gravity Goblins
The Rat Zone's fourth bite-size game is hoards trinkets, blows it all at the arcade.
Podcast
One Pigeon Instead of Every Clock [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet that writes a stranger’s life, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour clock, and a pigeon romance rebuilt after its map switched off.
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Podcast
The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.
Hypnogenesis
A video synthesizer is the control scheme in Hypnogenesis
Allen Riley and Andy Wallace wired a bullet hell into the guts of an image feedback loop, then demoed it on a CRT for the games-research crowd.
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.
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.'