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Atithi installed in a basement room at Basel Social Club 2026: two brass plates on stands before a projected simulation

Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal's Atithi interrupts our sense of touch

Touch-reactive engravings let visitors interrupt AI creatures roaming a ruined temple

A cartoonish first-person view from a bus driver's seat, passengers seated as the bus barrels down a road

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Double Fine's first post-Xbox game is a slapstick bus sim

Action Labs is the newly independent studio's label for weird little experiments, and its debut arrives October 14.

A low-poly farm plot where rows of pale humanoid crops grow from dark soil in CORPSE FARM

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The crop is flesh in Berrysoft’s CORPSE FARM

A farming sim wears the cozy genre’s exact visual manners, only it's skin

Car Park Capital

Car Park Capital turns car dependency into a tycoon sim

Hilko Janssen hands you Big Auto's propaganda budget

Installation view of Cezar Mocan, End of Signal, at SOLO Contemporary, Madrid

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Cezar Mocan's AI satellite cannot get its story straight

Cezar Mocan built a satellite that cannot agree with itself about the night a toxic lake vanished, and its unreliability turns out to be a design decision.

Three presenters at a table on a dark stage beneath a large projection screen at the New Museum

Andrew Thomas Huang

Andrew Thomas Huang made an art game at Rhizome's 7x7

With scientist Stephanie Zhang and coder Sebastien Zany, the Björk collaborator built a playable myth around a mirage-breathing mollusk deity.

A black pigeon flying over a pale 3D New York, with speech bubbles reading 'your wings are too small' and 'I'm flattered, but no'

Wristwork

Wristwork rebuilt its dead pigeon romance on open maps

The London studio's lockdown-era collectathon returns at true city scale — hundreds of thousands of birds, and one of them is your soulmate.

A rendered face peers through a gap between fingers in a frame from YUHA

Alina Nazmeeva

Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth

The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.

Ville Kallio

Helsinki names Ville Kallio an Artist of the Year

The Cruelty Squad creator shares the city's annual 5,000-euro award with soul singer Emilia Sisco and knitwear designer Juha Vehmaanperä.

Isometric network of icons connected by lines in the money laundering game Offshore

Mitch Anzuoni

Mitch Anzuoni is building a money laundering simulator

Offshore, made with Pete Christian, treats the criminal network as a sign system where signification is the gameplay.

Performer operating a sculptural camera controller in front of a projected synthetic forest

Kevin Peter He

A sculptural camera turns a game engine into cinema

Kevin Peter He and Dan Gorelick staged PASSAGE at an off-SIGGRAPH night in LA—visuals and score as two instruments answering each other live.

Boring Car Stories

A paper notebook is the entire HUD in Boring Car Stories

Players are asking for a physical map with no you-are-here marker and road signs instead of a minimap. They want more analog friction, not less.