In Palestine Skating Game, the soldiers can surround you

The crowdfunded team put occupation into the movement system itself

Yuha's Nightmares: Episode One arrives November 10

Yuliya Kozhemyako has shown these playable dreams from Ars Electronica to the gallery circuit

Junwoo Park's passing moments take their first steps

A Seoul illustrator hand-animates every frame of a game about wandering, meeting people and stumbling into strange little events.

A speedrun through dinner lands in ACMI's Wobbly showcase

Leandro Waibe's Family Reunion joins a one-day program of games that keep the maker's hand visible, during Melbourne International Games Week, Oct. 11.

P.T. is being rebuilt for PC from its own PS4 code

LoreanXavier's native Windows port is neither emulator nor remake. Museum conservators have a word for the difference, and it matters for a game Konami erased.

The Buttons Are Under Your Skin [Podcast]

I ask Murlo how a decade of reading dance floors led him to build a Luddite point-and-click game alone, with a sequencer hidden under the player's skin.

Be Playful brings nine Black-made games to Leimert Park

Connor Wall's echolocating android and Jeremy Kamal's bass-irrigated floodplain lead the October 15 slate, with the makers on hand.

Chris Rats' fighting game has fans before it has a name

One character-select reel from the HOUSE 2 artist, and the comments are already picking mains and inventing patch history.

Scoring Fear: The Composers Behind Weapons and Dead Space

Cross-Conversations: Horror. Weapons and Resident Evil composer Ryan Holladay meets Dead Space composer Jason Graves on scoring fear for a screen versus for a player. Free and online, 13 October.

A dice-roll gamebook holds Cuba's Axie Infinity collapse

Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn compress years of fieldwork among players, sponsors and hackers into numbered sections and multiple endings.

An AI fish is the lead in Harold Hejazi's new stage game

Legend of Harri Kala opens October 9 in Espoo, Finland, where a Baltic grayling listens, answers and turns whatever the room says into that night's myth.

Alan Kwan rebuilt Scent with a rock-ing controller

A dark room at Undershed in Bristol, a five-kilogram rock for a controller, and a war-torn city seen through the eyes of a stray dog, screened for everyone watching.