Torizon Telecom
When you switch languages, Torizon Telecom rebuilds itself
SkagoGames' shooter renders walls, guns, and bullets as words
Kill Screen Staff
TerminalDev
TerminalDev's open-world city is drawn entirely in ASCII
A pseudonymous solo dev is building a multiplayer crime sandbox with no 3D models or shaders
Grindset T.V.
Critical Reflex picks up Grindset T.V.
INFINITE ANIMAL's courier platformer is set in a corporatized Heaven, and the Mouthwashing publisher's signature reads like a curatorial stamp.
arebyte
arebyte Shows Wendi Yan and Skawennati in SLIPSTREAM
The seven-artist London exhibition traces the term slipstream to Native science fiction.
Rocket League
When a car throws a hook mid-air, driving becomes flight
Cabbibo’s Moon Ball grafts the Lashing magic from Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight novels onto a Rocket League chassis.
News
The crop is flesh in Berrysoft’s CORPSE FARM
A farming sim wears the cozy genre’s exact visual manners, only it's skin
SENTIENTS
At Watershed, six teenagers curated the games on show
SENTIENTS just closed at Undershed, with work by Marshmallow Laser Feast, David OReilly, Alice Bucknell, Alan Kwan and Demelza Kooij.
art bit
In Kyoto, an art hotel treated games as social diagrams
art bit #6: Game Playing Society put HUMANITY, SCHiM and Coffee Talk beside Courtinat and Kihara
Tools
Before making a game, Lotritsa Studio shipped the tool
Kaleidos makes Perlin noise, cellular noise and reaction-diffusion playable
Venice Biennale
Exactly two playable games made it into the Venice Biennale
Elliott Burns went hunting across every national presentation and came back with KAZANA, Bulgaria's copper-clad political compass quiz.
Magazine
Reset issue 1 boasts Liam Wong’s game-trained eye
Kepler Interactive’s sold-out print debut files photography, fashion and architecture under the same cultural roof as play.
Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman's Main Stream Media closes at K21 on Sept. 27
Ten days to catch the survey of the artist who filed the internet's dream