UK Government Art Collection Acquires a Keiken Triptych

To Touch a Sensitive Soul, an embossed fiberglass work made to be handled, comes out of the collective's game-engine world Morphogenic Angels.

Rockstar Workers to Vote on Union Recognition

The IWGB ballot runs Nov. 12 to 26, the same window as GTA VI's release and closing arguments in a tribunal over 31 fired organizers.

LoVid's woven signals head from Paris to Miami Beach

Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus closed their first French solo show at Galerie Charlot on Oct. 31; a new commission lands at Art Basel's Zero 10 sector in December.

“It’s About Skinning Faces, and That’s All You Need to Know”

Adam Pype’s new horror game wants you to be the monster.

Adam Pype Hands You the Knife [Podcast]

I ask Adam Pype why SKINFACE, a game about peeling off strangers’ faces, sits easier with the squeamish than horror that happens to you, and what he makes next.

A University Press Will Now Peer-Review Tabletop Games

Carnegie Mellon's new Promptuary anthology treats a rules text as the scholarship itself. Its first call closes Nov. 30.

Kara Stone shows Landfill at the Art Gallery of Ontario

After seven straight weeks of daily playtests, the upcoming game reached Walker Court for Video Game Arts Appreciation Night, on its way to a solar-powered server.

Ambrose Trataris Builds a VRChat World for Divination

Virtual...Oracle will host live readings with the artist and others inside a sea cave.

Every sigil you collect makes Pulcra's flesh maze meaner

Vikintor's free remaster of a five-minute arcade nightmare.

Wendi Yan Merges Satellite Parts with Energy Beams

A 360-degree CGI video anchors Wendi Yan's half of a duo show with Camilla Alberti at Artverse, alongside new paintings that fold Chinese scholar stones into game environments.

A song is the whole theme of thatgamejam #02

thatgamecompany's two-week jam asks entrants to turn a piece of music into play, with $10,000 across five prizes and no rhythm games required.

Remembering.LILO Gives the Utah Teapot Its Designer Back

Valerio Arsenio's Eindhoven graduation project feeds Lieselotte Kantner's life story into computer graphics' most famous test model, then 3D prints the results.