News
Geostorm's First Trailer Pits Bass Against an AGI [Watch]
Eternal Engine and AGE3000 Studio's narrative adventure sends a hacker-mage and a jester toward a machine castle after every device on Earth fails.
narrative
Events
EVA 2026 Shows The Swamp Daughter, a Novel Made Playable
Argentina's national developers' expo fills BA Ferial in Buenos Aires with more than 100 local games, including Bicho Raro Games' take on Alejandra Bruno's book.
News
Jiaying Li Builds Osaider Out of Shifting Palace Modules
The Bartlett graduate project is the practical half of a dissertation on extending ergodic narrative into three-dimensional space.
Dating Sim
Fish Make O-Faces, and Other Lessons From the Redding District
Sagan Yee's hookup sim asks what if mermaids lived like Pacific salmon: go home, spawn with everyone you grew up with, then die alongside the whole town.
Playlist
Watch "A Field Guide of Orbital Melancholy" [Playlist 289]
Ask the satellite twice, get two different lies.
Playlist
It Goes Wrong, Fast: What to Play, August 28
Three of us had our legs blown off.
Barragán
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.
climate change
What is the Environmental Weight of a Rendered Frame?
Kara Stone and Joshua Dawson are making work about a world in crisis. They're also reckoning with what it means to build inside the systems driving it.
opera
A New Opera Wrestles With A School Shooting. Could Games Ever?
A review of Innocence at the Met raises old questions about aestheticizing pain—and newer ones about whether games could handle it differently.
game design
Gayatri Kodikal: Excavating the ruins of history, time, and play
Artist Gayatri Kodikal transforms an archaeological mystery of a severed hand into an immersive game installation that challenges Western notions of time and history while weaving together colonial narratives, resistance stories, and South Asian perspectives.
postcolonial
Studio Oleomingus deconstructed colonial histories of India
Studio Oleomingus founder Dhruv Jani discusses how architectural training, postcolonial thought, and Indian political history shape his experimental approach to game design.
News
Angsty adventure game Night in the Woods released after several delays
A little over a week ago, the indie-favorite 2D game Night in the Woods released after nearly four years in development and several delays. Night in the Woods focuses on narrative, telling the story of recent college drop out Mae after returning to her old coal-mining town of Possum Springs. All is