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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
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art bit #6: Game Playing Society put HUMANITY, SCHiM and Coffee Talk beside Courtinat and Kihara
Tools
Kaleidos makes Perlin noise, cellular noise and reaction-diffusion playable
Venice Biennale
Elliott Burns went hunting across every national presentation and came back with KAZANA, Bulgaria's copper-clad political compass quiz.
Magazine
Kepler Interactive’s sold-out print debut files photography, fashion and architecture under the same cultural roof as play.
Jon Rafman
Ten days to catch the survey of the artist who filed the internet's dream
Gravity Goblins
The Rat Zone's fourth bite-size game is hoards trinkets, blows it all at the arcade.
Gaming Club
Thirty minutes with Mario von Rickenbach on Pocket Boss, the game where you lie with charts to get promoted. Monday, September 21 at 9 a.m. Pacific. Members only.
Greatest Hits from Planet Blip collects music from Blippo+, the off-cable television simulator Panic published last year. The label dates it 16 October.
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.
Control, I’m Not Coming Back is Desborde Games’ hopecore walking sim
This week: Ambrose Trataris loses the nightclub to sobriety and injury and rebuilds it inside VRChat, ChillCash’s cursed ghost boat turns out to be a no-combat sailing mystery, and in Inkblood, an Inquisitor holds a magnifying glass to a villager’s window
Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren
Hilko Janssen hands you Big Auto's propaganda budget
Greatest Hits from Planet Blip collects music from Blippo+, the off-cable television simulator Panic published last year. The label dates it 16 October.
Yukinori Tokoro's Japan-only labyrinths were called dreams, and a clips account just pulled them back into the feed.
Seventeen years after the Grizzly Bear fan video, the animator's afterlife platformer makes navigation an act of looking up.
Adam Yates draws occult architecture in ink. Holyvoid runs 168 hardcover pages from The Mansion Press, and there is nothing to play.
Six months in, NOMIAD has no engine and no editor—just WebGL, multiplayer, and an artificial-life simulation running underneath.
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.
thatgamecompany has launched thatgamepublisher, spending Sky: Children of the Light money on other people’s emotionally ambitious games.
The second annual Alt.Ctrl Festival ran this past summer in Bushwick
Léonard Lemaitre trades STRAFTAT's firefights for a city of locked doors, revoked ration tickets and rooftop routes.
Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell
Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.