Dave Shuff's Big Steel Battalion Box Wins Editor's Choice

The homemade mech cockpit for Capcom's 2002 Xbox game returned to Maker Faire Bay Area on Mare Island in September.

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.

MILKMAN ZERO Turns a Text Adventure Into Live Horror Theater

Matt Romein types every command onstage in a solo show directed by Jerry Lieblich, premiering at Mitu580 in Brooklyn.

Joeveno's favela shooter harkens bootleg Brazil PS2s

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4 treats the bootleg discs of Brazil's PS2 era as a national style, and Steam reviewers agree at 99 percent.

Jess Uhre Rahbek Announces This Is Why You Love LEGO

The MIT Press book, out Oct. 13, draws on three years embedded with the LEGO House design team.

The more it eats, the bigger In Full Bloom gets

obleak games' Tamagotchi-inspired feeds a helpless creature until continents count as meals.

Bored Kid Releases ArMystic Demo Ahead of Steam Next Fest

The work-in-progress build of the mixed-media RPG Maker game is free on itch.io for Windows and Mac.

Architects redraw Doom and Disco Elysium as building plans

Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson's follow-up to Videogame Atlas measures 12 game worlds in sections and exploded diagrams

When asses.masses plays Ghent, the donkeys speak Flemish

Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim’s seven-hour game for a theater audience reaches VIERNULVIER, in a translation the room ends up reading aloud.

To play Joy's Hands, you have to visit a Chinatown gallery

Isabelle Frances McGuire and Will Lee launch their studio Recurseware with a 20-minute Salem witch game

Game screens wind up in an altar and a copper girl in Arles

Anima Ludens hangs The Exit 8 beside contact Gonzo and Kenji Yanobe at Octobre Numérique,

Cory Arcangel’s shuttered shop reopens as an installation

Family Office, at Stavanger Art Museum, surveys the decade the Super Mario Clouds artist spent in Norway minding a store and a family.