Festival - Killscreen

The Dortmunder U tower at dusk with video art playing on its rooftop screens

KoLab

KoLab Brings Processing Community Day to YU Festival

A four-day hackathon with ATEM Biennale, a coding jam and a real-time digital graffiti wall fill the Dortmunder U.

A wide 360-degree panorama of the Qiloane rock pinnacle under a clouded sky in Lesotho

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Futures_Past Brings Five Immersive Works to Fak'ugesi

The booth runs Oct. 14 to 17 at Johannesburg's Tshimologong Precinct, with VR and 360 video drawn from archives across South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi.

Harvey Huffstone rides a bicycle through a flat-colored town in Future? No Thanks!

Events

Mr Woofmantic Pairs Experimental Games With Jazz

The free game exhibition at the Copenhagen weekend puts Molleindustria’s new Future? No Thanks! in the shower room, beside sets from Jake Sherman and Thom Gill.

Red festival poster reading Here to Stay, Here to Play, with the dates Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 and a list of 13 speakers and organizations.

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Games Transformed Adds Mansoor Adayfi and IWGB to 2026 Bill

The volunteer-run festival takes over three Bethnal Green venues in London, Oct. 30 to Nov. 1.

Festival

PAF Olomouc Announces 2026 Lineup With Lawrence Lek

The Czech festival of film animation and contemporary art takes the theme Bestiary, with Nicolas Gourault also on the bill.

glitch art

Glitch art and arcade games shared a weekend in Chicago

Bee Nix's Glitch'N'Games ran Oct. 2 and 3 across three venues, then streamed its talks to the Fubar biennale in Zagreb.

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

exhibition

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 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.

Banner artwork for the RESILIENT GLITCHES / HYPERNOMA media art festival in Graz

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HYPERNOMA launched a three-year platform for unruly play

Graz's RESILIENT GLITCHES festival closed ten days at Schaumbad

Two colorful cards. One reads Play-pril, a month long game making challenge. The other lists prompts for days one to six.

Arlo Howard

A hat of prompts gave Arlo Howard 30 games in 30 days

Play-pril, a daily making ritual from the interactive theatre maker, became a workshop at The Big Thing in Llandudno on Sept. 10.

Jenna Caravello

Jenna Caravello premiered Vimar at Edinburgh's film festival

A games-native animator, associate director of UCLA's Game Lab, cleared one of cinema's oldest showcases with two haunted minutes about a swan.

Lou Fauroux

Lou Fauroux's WhatRemains, Genesis screens at MUTEK Forum

Set in 2048, the film gives Google a cure for death — until hackers leak the source code to everyone. In Montreal Wednesday, with a Q&A to follow.