Invented Olympic sports demand both hands in Qilinic Games

Xiner Lan's UCLA MFA thesis installation stages pseudo-sports on a twin-joystick arcade cabinet, a ritual for building 'the great body.'

Alina Nazmeeva's YUHA builds a world from oil and myth

The simulation-based solo show opens August 28 at MANA Contemporary in Chicago, with a panel alongside longtime collaborator Yvette Granata.

A tarot deck grows out of Paloma Dawkins's videogames

The Fool's Journey converts characters from Museum of Symmetry and the Apocablyss universe into 22 archetypes, debuting at MUTEK Forum August 26.

Mexico City street legends turn up as low-poly game skins

The anonymous account cdmx.exe models the capital's characters in PS2-era polygons, and the audience keeps asking where to download them.

tiengiungtong's rabbit hole is lined with bodhisattvas

Another chorus of can-I-play-this for a dreamlike point-and-click that does not exist yet

OTHERWORLDS won A MAZE's Human Human Machine Award

Sophia Bulgakova's mixed-reality ritual, drawn from Ukrainian pagan practice, took the Berlin festival's prize for collective presence.

Dollar-store junk becomes the item sprites of Lucid Blocks

Eric Alfaro photographed household clutter into a Minecraft that runs on dream logic

A crucifix USB necklace carries a Barragán video game

THE END IS NEAR, made for Victor Barragán's label by Alex Sinh Nguyen, ships as $270 jewelry.

Freshly Baked Games serves its King's Field revival crunchy

The dev jokes that teeth would wear down chewing on this game—Dark Souls's first-person ancestor finally gets an heir, and the demo is out.

You Up?: What to Play, August 21

Just a little twist of the truth.

A Sea Made of Plastic [Podcast]

We go in on a police station built wrong on purpose, films rebuilt as late-'90s games nobody can play, and why Mario 64's water still felt like water.

Games You Remember That Never Existed [Podcast]

Plus the Ouija board of tabletop, JPEG face, and a money laundering simulator