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Kara Stone shows Landfill at the Art Gallery of Ontario

After seven straight weeks of daily playtests, the upcoming game reached Walker Court for Video Game Arts Appreciation Night, on its way to a solar-powered server.

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Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim Take asses.masses to Ghent

The seven-and-a-half-hour game, played by a theater audience sharing one controller, comes to VIERNULVIER in a Flemish translation.

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A precision platformer drawn in Ben Day dots

Aggro Crab's first signing is ThirtyThree's Rebounder

Mitchell Chan

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

Zantar, Moonboi and Ladyboss are now playable

Jon Rafman

Jon Rafman's Main Stream Media closes at K21 on Sept. 27

Ten days to catch the survey of the artist who filed the internet's dream

animation

A 1991 animation frames early CGI in religious imagery

Alain Mongeau, nine years before founding MUTEK, and Eric Mattson built an eight-minute case that computer graphics inherited the job of the illuminated manuscript.

Paloma Dawkins

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.

Playlist

What to Play: July 24th

Honk honk, beep beep

Mitchell Chan

Playlist Session with Mitchell Chan [Members-Only]

The Toronto-based artists and game designer joins me for a members-only chat

Playlist

May 22: What to Play This Weekend

Something short for a long American weekend

climate change

What is the Environmental Weight of a Rendered Frame?

Kara Stone and Joshua Dawson are making work about a world in crisis. They're also reckoning with what it means to build inside the systems driving it.

live performance

What Happens When 100 Strangers Share a Single Controller for Eight Hours?

Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim built a game that hands its labor back to the audience. asses.masses is eight hours of collective donkey revolution.