VHOLUME is out: parkour under a brutalist Ministry

Léonard Lemaitre trades STRAFTAT's firefights for a city of locked doors, revoked ration tickets and rooftop routes.

Screaming Mad George left behind exactly one video game

Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell

Juan Covelli rebuilds Colombia’s toppled monuments

Watching the 2021 strike from Mexico, the artist had strangers photograph defaced statues and empty plinths.

Trains Don't Stop: What to Play, September 11

The only way out requires a ticket.

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.