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A circular chamber ringed by staircases and scaffolding, lit by fire, in the game THRESHOLD

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Watch the Trailer for Jiayi Liu's Afterlife Game THRESHOLD

The Bartlett graduate project draws on Chinese funerary traditions and ghost marriage rites, with rooms that record every route walked.

A dense, colorful illustration of plants, flames and staring eyes, with the title BEASTS in black lettering and the Korean word for monster in the corners.

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C.U.T.E. Opens BEASTS, a Korean Folklore Play Installation

Scarlett Kim and Anthony Storniolo built the free, motion-driven Unreal Engine work for the Digital Arts Space at The Music Center in Los Angeles.

Two black sculptures flank a concrete plinth before a curved screen in Gabriel Massan's ANIMA KINESIS

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Gabriel Massan took a game pipeline to Frieze Seoul

ANIMA KINESIS locates Jung's anima in movement

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The Buttons Are Under Your Skin [Podcast]

I ask Murlo how a decade of reading dance floors led him to build a Luddite point-and-click game alone, with a sequencer hidden under the player's skin.

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Murlo Builds a World You Can Play

Chris Pell spent a decade reading dance floors. Now he is building a Luddite point-and-click alone, for one player at a time, with an album hidden inside it.

A player using in-game 3D modeling tools to build a disguise in FAKE ME

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In FAKE ME, your disguise starts as a blank block

Eren Can Metin and Emre Gökçe put the verbs of 3D modeling into a multiplayer hide-and-seek round.

Hand-painted 3D landscape from Camoflux: Levels and Bosses (Igapo)

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When you attack the boss in Camoflux, the landscape wins

Leo Castañeda built the Whitney Biennial’s game installation with grandmother Maria Thereza Negreiros, 96—and its browser spin-off is free to play.

Two performers in black at a table of synthesizers, silhouetted against a projected moon crossed by a large shadow.

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A room's light became the controller in a Berlin live set

Nanzhen Yang and Song Xin's The Incomplete Moon took Unreal Engine off the joypad and wired it to the venue, under a moon nobody could touch.

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

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arebyte Shows Wendi Yan and Skawennati in SLIPSTREAM

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

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The Lake Was Gone and the Satellite Kept Talking [Podcast]

Cezar Mocan's satellite finds a lake missing and generates testimony instead of doubt. Danny Snelson and I follow that instinct through games and publishing.

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Falling stars replace the map in Gabe Askew's Abelina

Seventeen years after the Grizzly Bear fan video, the animator's afterlife platformer makes navigation an act of looking up.

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.