Riding a Bike Through San Andreas [Podcast]

Bruno Abib on grief, the Lisbon suburbs, and why his short film about police violence needed a San Andreas sequence built from scratch.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Otherworlds closes Sunday at PHI

Six ecological worlds from a decade of fieldwork, hung as chapters of one unfolding video game — the artist’s largest institutional show yet.

Stephen Ddungu animates and scores a one-man prequel

The Sword of Symphony developer’s episodic project 00000 00 0x0000000 unfolds in [The Garden], a border between Ddungu’s games.

SILT’s monochrome abyss reached the Apple Design finals

Illustrator Tom Mead’s underwater world put Spiral Circus beside Cyberpunk 2077 at Apple Park

A stranded astronaut meets Voyager 1 in a free Steam game

Control, I’m Not Coming Back is Desborde Games’ hopecore walking sim

Inflatable microbes toured all five Meow Wolf worlds

Nicole Banowetz and Devin Reilly sewed Phenomenomaly’s newest Leviathan from the anatomy of microscopic organisms.

Games This Week: Sep. 9, 2026

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

Mexico joins a seven-country games policy program

The Centro de Cultura Digital is the point of entry, so the largest videogame market in Latin America enters a regional policy body through a culture center.

A scanned house is the museum in Biosphere 3

Branden Collins and four collaborators modeled an actual home as an explorable level, then hid a second world called AKUPARA inside it.

Carol Ann Has Dysentery

Living, learning, and dying on the steps of The Oregon Trail

A 1991 animation frames early CGI in religious imagery

Alain Mongeau, nine years before founding MUTEK, and Eric Mattson built an eight-minute case that computer graphics inherited the job of the illuminated manuscript.

When you can no longer close the club, you build one

Sobriety and injury cost Ambrose Trataris the nightclub, so they rebuilt it inside VRChat, then staged it as a dance work where one body puppets another.