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Riding a Bike Through San Andreas [Podcast]

Bruno Abib on grief, the Lisbon suburbs, and why his short film about police violence needed a San Andreas sequence built from scratch.

Plum Road Tea Dream

Plum Road Tea Dream's grief sanctuary gains a mausoleum

Jira Duguid's level joins six other sanctuaries built by an avatar called S., in a game whose only verbs are walking, sitting and listening.

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Watch Bruno Abib's Death in August [Members Only]

A drowning, a riot, and a bike ride through San Andreas

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A Walk and The Talk: What to Play, July 31

Grief and routine come to pass in this week's Playlist selection

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So It Goes

Lisa Jamhoury's Lossy is a memorial to the physical body in the age of the digital body—and a reckoning with what we lose when we let ourselves be averaged.

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Why I Can't Stop Thinking About Grandma, a Game Boy Eulogy

Zhou Yichen's Grandma is a Game Boy-style elegy for his late grandmother—and a quiet argument for interactive media as a native form of mourning.

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Jonathan Coryn's Good Grief

Jonathan Coryn spent six years building a game where you caress grieving figures—and somehow made touch feel like the most radical mechanic in art.

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Nick Murray: The intimacy and expanse of interactive narrative

Game designer Nick Murray crafts intimate interactive experiences that bridge poetry, music, and digital art to examine the complex emotions of life mediated by technology.

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Our Saddest Gaming Moments

Four Kill Screen staffers on the games that broke their hearts.

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Fragments of Him finds the everyday poetry of grief

It is very, very hard to talk about death and grief without falling into platitudes. But we have the elegy to save us from the cliché—that form of poem or writing that seeks to capture the abyssal depths of the writer’s despair over the absence of the departed and impart some singular meaning to tha

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A videogame about the impossibility of grieving for Pol Pot

“Much of the experience of the site takes place in one’s head,” says the itch.io page for Cho-am, a new game from Aaron Oldenburg. The site described is the place where Pol Pot—the brutal dictator behind the Cambodian genocide in the late 70s—was cremated. In “real life” Cambodia, this site is near

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The game of grief

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. That Dragon, Cancer (PC, Mac) NUMINOUS GAMES Many people pretend to know how you should grieve. Endless self-help books and articles give instructions on what’s “normal” and “healthy” and “exp