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The words 100 Art Games in bubble letters over a pixelated first-person gallery with a monster and a shotgun

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Side Quest's Elliott Burns Puts the Art Game to a Vote

A performance lecture at Peckham Digital, the South London creative computing festival at Copeland Gallery, has the audience rate definitions by phone.

A red shadowbox pinball sculpture with an inverted V track over an illustrated nursery scene, a woman at the window with a baby

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Mitchell F. Chan Rigs Pinball Machines in Workers' Playtime

The Toronto artist's first solo show in Asia, at DE SARTHE in Hong Kong, sets six electromechanical sculptures in shadowboxes depicting different kinds of work.

A game projected inside a green frame over green carpet and two green floor seats in a dark room

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Zambrano and Rodríguez Show Bunker for a Tropical Pixel

The Colombian duo's cinematic game is part of (Dé)jouer les mondes, a group exhibition at Le Grenier à sel in Avignon.

A dark gallery room with a large projection showing the war-torn landscape of the game Scent

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Alan Kwan rebuilt Scent with a rock-ing controller

A dark room at Undershed in Bristol, a five-kilogram rock for a controller, and a war-torn city seen through the eyes of a stray dog, screened for everyone watching.

Abstract red, purple and teal poster with white concentric circles and hand-drawn black letters reading XP+10, dated October 9–11 2026

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Gossamer Fog’s XP+10 spreads 40-plus artists across 24 sites

Ten years of showing game engines as art earns the Deptford gallery a 48-hour weekender, plotted through a personalized interactive map.

A pixel hot air balloon floats over black mountains past billboards reading upbeat slogans in Up and Away.

MacArthur Foundation

Christine Sun Kim's MacArthur brings games one step closer

The fellowship citation names a playable installation, and the artist's voice-controlled speech therapy remake runs in your browser now.

A MAZE

A MAZE. / Berlin 2027: May 5–8, with 200 early-bird tickets

The arthouse-games festival whose lineup predicts a year of coverage sets its 16th edition, with award submissions to follow.

Four players seated on stools around a low table holding cards, a TV screen beside them in a white room

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amy pickles Builds a Card Game About Reaching Consensus

Dissenting Decisions, a work in progress, had a session at the Rijksakademie's [untitled games event] in Amsterdam on Sept. 18.

Screenshot from Mitchell F. Chan’s Zantar & Other Stories

Mitchell Chan

Mitchell Chan's Insert Coin(s) suite is coming to Steam

Zantar, Moonboi and Ladyboss are now playable

Circular copper bench and table with embedded screens under a copper column in a curtained gallery

Venice Biennale

Exactly two playable games made it into the Venice Biennale

Elliott Burns went hunting across every national presentation and came back with KAZANA, Bulgaria's copper-clad political compass quiz.

A stacked tower of screens and road cases displays video games inside a gallery space.

Pierre Moulin

A game tower crowned Diversion's tenth anniversary in Paris

Pierre Moulin's new game THE HOST, scored by Octave Magescas, showed alongside four works from the Distraction collective.