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Podcast

The Dating Sim That Won't Tell You Why [Podcast]

Danny Snelson and I talk through Sagan Yee's mermaid hookup sim, Oleomingus's paradise, You+Pea's building plans and a Steel Battalion cockpit in a box.

Last Call for the Redding District screenshot: a salmon-mermaid character beneath a 'Welcome back spawners' banner in her hometown

Dating Sim

Fish Make O-Faces, and Other Lessons From the Redding District

Sagan Yee's hookup sim asks what if mermaids lived like Pacific salmon: go home, spawn with everyone you grew up with, then die alongside the whole town.

A projected CGI scene shows a figure with a blue-patterned porcelain head, seen from behind, inside an iron and glass structure.

arebyte

arebyte Shows Wendi Yan and Skawennati in SLIPSTREAM

The seven-artist London exhibition traces the term slipstream to Native science fiction.

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.

ecological art

What Would You Do If You Had to Find the Last Surviving Bees?

The Athens-based artist Kyriaki Goni on a woven basket gifted to her at 18, the ritual of telling bees about deaths and births, and building a speculative video game set in a near-future Aegean.

speculative fiction

Is Project Hail Mary secretly a game designer's novel?

I came to Andy Weir expecting sci-fi dogmatism and found a writer who thinks like a game designer — mystery as mechanic, worldbuilding as a systems problem.

CGI noir

Five Behind-the-Scenes Observations from Our Lawrence Lek Interview

Lawrence Lek creates cinematic game worlds that blur fiction and reality, using AI aesthetics and virtual architecture to examine our technological present.

simulation

Francis Tseng: Towards just futures through simulation

Through games and simulations, Francis Tseng examines how technology shapes power structures and imagines more equitable futures.

Article

The fork in the road

Wolfenstein: The New Order and the history of alternate histories.

News

Belladonna is a gothic tale of queer love

The bane of female-female relationships? The male ego.