Events
ThinkyCon 2026 Streams Two Days of Puzzle Design Talks
Matthew Stein reports back from three months inside Japan's escape room and riddle scene, in a free online lineup with Hempuli and Evan Todd.
Every Piece in This Chess Set Is a Tuned Brass Bell
Fish Fabrications made the instrument for sound artist Yuri Suzuki during Suzuki's years at Pentagram and has only now shown it.
Nine game worlds become guided meditations in Waldenstein
Gregory Nachmanovitch's 2018 landscape films screen free online as VRAL 139 through Oct. 29, with an interview on the politics of the pastoral.
Bleed Map Is a Keepsake Game Played Beside Another Game
Florence Smith Nicholls' free zine turns an hour inside any title into a hand-drawn chart and a diary of the day.
Userlands Adds Movement Magick to Eternity Egg
The update to the solo-developed Early Access platformer brings 63 spells cast through wall runs, slides and dashes.
Tamashii's Vikintor Shares Enemy From Evangelho da Carne
The Brazilian developer has swapped the next game’s 2D player sprites for pre-rendered ones modeled on the 1998 PlayStation title Skullmonkeys.
Choose Where You Fall: What to Play, October 23
Every wall is a floor if you try.
When you misplay Palimpsest, the film starts to distort
Guillaume Roux and Johan Delétang's one-player game drives an interactive movie for a watching audience, premiering at IDFA DocLab Nov. 12.
Panflip Studio Teases New Stack Order Demo: Watch
The hand-animated deckbuilder, due in 2027, ties every duel to the order in which cards are placed.
Speed in Vitamen is a matter of staying on the beat
Darwin Modestly is building an audio-paced racing game
Andrea Gatopoulos' Red Dead Online Short Is Now Streaming
Happy New Year, Jim, a 2022 Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection, follows two players through New Year's Eve inside the Western game.
A MAZE. Opens Applications for Playful Obscura Residency
Africa-based artists have until Nov. 1 to apply for three weeks in Addis Ababa, with the resulting work shown in Berlin next May.
The Overkill Festival Puts a Sleepover in the Program
Sickhouse built this year's edition in Enschede around rest, and Samuel Baidoo brings a tea-and-play hangout for Plum Road Tea Dream to the overnight.