PlayStation footage melts for real on Jared Hall's CRTs

The analog VJ scene treats game imagery as physical material

When the wargame runs 1,500 hours, the podcast is the game

Andy and James of War With a Mate are nearly a hundred episodes into The Campaign for North Africa, and the real 111 turns have not started yet.

Friday Sundae wrote its haunted hotel game as a musical

Characters at the Grand carry their own theme songs, and dialogue choices are sung back in verse.

Lofsöng hides a nuclear warning

Alessandro Durando's wordless adventure sends you across brutalist monuments carved to outlast the language of their builders.

Sahej Rahal's Atithi interrupts our sense of touch

Touch-reactive engravings let visitors interrupt AI creatures roaming a ruined temple

A game about Guantánamo is being built with its survivor

Mansoor Adayfi, held without charge for 14 years, joined Joseph DeLappe and Biome Collective as co-creator rather than subject.

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.

Gossamer Fog’s XP+10 spreads 40-plus artists across 24 sites

Ten years of showing game engines as art earns the Deptford gallery a 48-hour weekender, plotted through a personalized interactive map.

Christine Sun Kim's MacArthur brings games one step closer

The fellowship citation names a playable installation, and the artist's voice-controlled speech therapy remake runs in your browser now.

Game engines meet stagecraft in dmstfctn’s Rhizome talk

Also, a purgatory for cheating AIs built as a theatre, where the audience runs the lights by phone.

Code is a plaything in Daniel Temkin’s esolangs

Natasha Chuk’s new essay reads esoteric programming languages through Oulipo, Aarseth’s ergodics, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

A MAZE. / Berlin 2027: May 5–8, with 200 early-bird tickets

The arthouse-games festival whose lineup predicts a year of coverage sets its 16th edition; award submissions may open as early as December.