Video Games Are Art. Are Museums Ready? (Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley) (Patreon)

This week on Post Games:

Act 1: Games Enter the Art World

Act 2: How Games Help Us Through Tough Conversations

Patreon Bonus: A Personal History of Games in Art and Art in Games

Guests:

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: artist, game designer, and archivist

Closing Song: "It's Raining Inside Alo's Home" by Prateek Saxena (Fishbowl)

Act 1: Games Enter the Art World

Black Trans Archive (blacktransarchive.com) 

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (https://www.daniellebrathwaiteshirley.com/home) 

DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRLEY: “THE AUDIENCE IS A VITAL PART OF IT” (The Talks)

THE INTERVIEW | DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRLEY (Right Click Save)

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Invites You Into Her Gaming-Art World (W Magazine)

The "Man-Monster" by Jonathan Ned Katz (Out History)

Serpentine Galleries (serpentinegalleries.org/visit)

In conversation with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (Flo London)

I Can’t Follow You Anymore (Factory International)

Act 2: How Games Help Us Through Tough Conversations

1000xRESIST (Steam)

eXoDOS (Retro Exo)

Multi-user Dungeon (Wiki)

The Museum of Anything Goes (The Collection Chamber)

HyperCard (Wiki)

The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition (Steam)

David Blandy (https://davidblandy.co.uk) 

Final Fantasy, Jacolby Satterwhite (Art21)

INTERVIEW: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE ON HOW VIDEO GAMES, ART HISTORY, AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION INSPIRE HIS 3D INTERIORS (Pin-Up Magazine)

Patreon Bonus: A Personal History of Games in Art and Art in Games

THE UNILEVER SERIES: CARSTEN HÖLLER: TEST SITE (Tate Modern)

Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds, 2002 (The Whitney)

Shipwrecked 64 (Steam)

Elite (Wiki)

Paratopic (Steam)

The Backrooms (Steam)

This Week in Video Game Links

The lost wonder of Minecraft comes back in Lucid Blocks (Jank)

The best games of 2026 (so far) (Polygon)

Aug. (Ahoy)

Only Cowards Complain About The Knife Being OP In Marathon (Kotaku)

Crimson Desert's commitment to cleaning up its clunky controls shines the brightest in how satisfying it feels to fly around Pywel now (PCGamer)

Free Game of the Week: RTFM: Read the Fucking Manual

“Solve puzzles and stay one step ahead of [redacted] in this co-op tech support simulator. One player, the Troubleshooter, uses the User Manual to troubleshoot for the Terminal Operator, who must convey what’s on the screen. Players must work together — or not — in this atmospheric game of trust and communication.” (itch.io)

What Else I’m Enjoying

Meiko Kaji's 60 Year Career Has Been Defined By Stubborn Ambition (Aftermath)

My Undesirable Friends and yours (AV Club)

The Napa Boys trailer (YouTube)

Did You Know Criterion Invented the Commentary Track? (Criterion)

Closing Song: "It's Raining Inside Alo's Home" by Prateek Saxena

From Fishbowl, now available on Steam and PS5.