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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.

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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.

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Do Good Games Taste Like Gasoline? [Podcast]

Danny Snelson on Bennett Foddy’s gasoline problem, a school rebuilt as a Halo map, and three games worth knowing this week.

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Stephen Gillmurphy Doesn't Plan Past the Next Chapter [Podcast]

A members' only chat with Irish writer and game designer Stephen Gilmurphy aka thecatamites

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Temitayo Ogunbiyi Builds Playgrounds Out of Risk and Steel Piping

Temitayo Ogunbiyi's practice began where most playground design stops: with a security fence. Watching galvanized steel piping used to wall off private compounds across Lagos, she saw instead a material she could turn into structures for public play, cheap, weatherproof, and endlessly reconfigurable. In this conversation, she traces

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The Backrooms Were Always About Games [Podcast]

Plus getting lost in Goa and a blob of petroleum animates

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Your Body Is Being Compressed

Lisa Jamhoury on Lossy, Grief, and the Digital Body

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Telling the Bees: Kyriaki Goni on Building a Game from a Stranger's Gift

In this episode, I talk with Greek artist Kyriaki Goni about Telling the Bees — her in-development game about a character called the Bee-Seeker, searching for the last surviving bees in a near-future Aegean archipelago on the edge of ecological collapse.

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What Happens When the Internet Goes Out?

I sat down with Lou Faroux—French artist and filmmaker—to talk about growing up on The Sims, why she spent years making films before she ever touched a game engine, and what it means to treat internet collapse as an art subject rather than a catastrophe. Lou's

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The Living Archive: Jakob Kudsk Steensen on Art, Ecology, and the Game Engine

In this conversation, we'll trace the arc of that practice through Otherworlds, Steensen's survey exhibition at Centre PHI in Montréal, which gathers five installations across five distinct spaces and spans roughly 15 years of work.

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Building Worlds While the Actual World Burns

On April 17th, I'm bringing together two artists who are both making work about the climate crisis—and both are reckoning with what it means to build within the systems driving that crisis.

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He Fed a Classic Anthropology Text To Make An AI Game. Here's What Happened.

In 1922, Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific changed anthropology forever, introducing the world to "thick description" and the rigors of deep fieldwork. A century later, researcher Michael Hoffman is bringing that text into the future. In this episode, Jamin Warren sits down with Hoffman—a

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A Sea Made of Plastic [Podcast]

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

Do Good Games Taste Like Gasoline? [Podcast]

Stephen Gillmurphy Doesn't Plan Past the Next Chapter [Podcast]

Temitayo Ogunbiyi Builds Playgrounds Out of Risk and Steel Piping

The Backrooms Were Always About Games [Podcast]

Your Body Is Being Compressed

Telling the Bees: Kyriaki Goni on Building a Game from a Stranger's Gift

What Happens When the Internet Goes Out?

The Living Archive: Jakob Kudsk Steensen on Art, Ecology, and the Game Engine

Building Worlds While the Actual World Burns

He Fed a Classic Anthropology Text To Make An AI Game. Here's What Happened.