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Autodrama Stages a Chamber Play for Self-Directing Actors
Gary Zhexi Zhang, Amant's New York fall resident, gives a performance lecture on a game engine stage where characters, lights and cameras run themselves.
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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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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.
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Peter Burr's DVD-era animation network turned 20 at Roulette
The USEFUL FANTASY program ran on a repair dungeon, a performer inside a videogame, and instruments where sound and image trade places.
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At Wonderville, nine games replaced the gamepad entirely
The second annual Alt.Ctrl Festival ran this past summer in Bushwick
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Wonderville's new cabinet Step Right Up! crosses a Zoltar machine with vector graphics
Game, cabinet, UI, voice, animatronic head and a custom trackball each get a credit
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The Witch isn’t an empowerment narrative and that’s why it’s great
Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one. — Margaret Atwood, author of Half-Hanged Mary and descendant of accused witch Mary Webster The Witch, described simply by its first time writer/director Robert Eggers as a “New England fairytale,” tells a story we’ve heard many times and in many different
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Save Brooklyn from the British before saving it from itself in this videogame
Believe it or not, Brooklyn existed before the days of beard wax, tasting menus, and lazy trendpiece shorthand. Brooklyn 1776, which launches for iOS next week, is about those earlier days. Much earlier. August 1776 was not a calm time in American history. George Washington (maybe you’ve heard of h
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A new art exhibit turns a coin-op arcade into a cathedral
Tracking the intersection of religion, consumerism and videogames with FAILE.
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How Anamanaguchi pulled the 8-bit into the real world
Chiptune is dead. Long live chiptune.