Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren

Watch Bruno Abib's Death in August [Members Only]

A drowning, a riot, and a bike ride through San Andreas

Save-point typewriters turn up in the Resident Evil film

Cregger says he set out to write a game as a movie, and mimicked Resident Evil 4's healing items exactly. The props do work the film cannot actually run.

A paper notebook is the entire HUD in Boring Car Stories

Players are asking for a physical map with no you-are-here marker and road signs instead of a minimap. They want more analog friction, not less.

Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy

You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.

When the mocap suit drifts, the drift becomes choreography

Letta Shtohryn's live XR performance starts at a 5,000-year-old Maltese temple and ends with an avatar slipping loose from the body driving it.

Wonderville's new cabinet Step Right Up! crosses a Zoltar machine with vector graphics

Game, cabinet, UI, voice, animatronic head and a custom trackball each get a credit

ONLY SLIME rebuilt their computer-game opera as AFTERLIFE,

Visitors are so far inside the game they're asking for a reset button.

Jérémy Griffaud started a watercolor game built on Shinto animism

A month at Akiyoshidai International Art Village went to game design, Gion Matsuri and an ecosystem the player is in relation with, not in charge of.

Paizley Lee filled DEAD INTERNET THEORY's second LA night with a rainbow of iMac G3s

The response to an internet run by bots turns out to be a room: a Y2K LAN night where salvaged hardware does what the feed no longer can.

What a Rickshaw Knows That a Car Doesn't [Podcast]

I ask Kalp Studio's Mannat Jain why she built a game around the ride between two places, and set it in a 1990s Goa that never existed.

Kara Güt staged a two-person play inside Red Dead Online at a Dutch film festival

Two performers at a desk with controllers, walking their characters toward each other across a server whose weather and respawns nobody in the room controlled.

SFMOMA and ZKM jointly acquire Eden.Garden 1.0, 25 years after its debut

The 2001 net artwork grows a 3D Garden of Eden out of any website's HTML—and it took a restoration at ZKM to make it collectible at all.