News
Beyond the Strand stages Kojima Productions' first decade
Kojima Productions' 10th anniversary show in Tokyo pairs Hideo Kojima's high school book report with a live link to the office.
Japan
Events
ThinkyCon 2026 Streams Two Days of Puzzle Design Talks
Matthew Stein reports back from three months inside Japan's escape room and riddle scene, in a free online lineup with Hempuli and Evan Todd.
News
futurala Shows Organism-Growing Game CultureHouse
The demo is playable at 404 Not Found in Shibuya as part of an ars●bit display, alongside Hanabushi and hako life's PIGGY ONE SUPER SPARK.
News
Takakurakazuki Builds Walter Benjamin Machine for Oni Kappa
The new stage of the side-scrolling philosophy game premieres in NEW MEDIA / NEW TECHNOLOGY / NEW ARTISTS, a touring group show at ISLAND in Shibuya.
News
Takakurakazuki Puts a Game Inside a Buddhist Altar in Arles
The free Octobre Numérique show, with The Exit 8 and work by contact Gonzo and Kenji Yanobe, runs through Nov. 8.
Pixel Art
Takakurakazuki Debuts Ghost Gion Matsuri at PAC-MAN Show
The new work joins a seven-artist group exhibition at Kyoto's BnA Alter Museum art hotel
art bit
In Kyoto, an art hotel treated games as social diagrams
art bit #6: Game Playing Society put HUMANITY, SCHiM and Coffee Talk beside Courtinat and Kihara
Nemuru Mayu
A photographer designed the PS1 dungeon crawler Nemuru Mayu
Yukinori Tokoro's Japan-only labyrinths were called dreams, and a clips account just pulled them back into the feed.
News
Screaming Mad George left behind exactly one video game
Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell
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Podcast
The Cicada Does Not Know Summer [Podcast]
An arcade cabinet in Tokyo writes a stranger's life from census data, and the artist who built it explains why you are allowed to go back exactly once.
Rising
Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair
A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.
watercolor
Jérémy Griffaud started a watercolor game built on Shinto animism
A month at Akiyoshidai International Art Village went to game design, Gion Matsuri and an ecosystem the player is in relation with, not in charge of.