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Fantasia Malware: Fever Loop Fountain #4 – Overstimulation Propaganda
2025-02-06 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | HAU3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Presenting video games in unique performative settings is the hallmark of the Berlin collective Fantasia Malware, who return to HAU for the fourth and final instalment of the Fever Loop Fountain series. The evening will feature two short performances, each taking a different approach to overstimulation and sensory experience.
Chloê Langford (Fantasia Malware) has invited guest artist Zane Hettinga to collaborate on the first performance of the night. “Hand in a Cave” follows the descent of a disembodied digital hand, crawling forward into the darkness, searching for sensory data in a computer-generated cave. Meanwhile on stage, a creature with cameras for hands probes the black box of the theatre, scanning for data to feed to its digital twin.
The second performance features Fantasia Malware member Jira Duguid, who will present a new chapter of her episodic “Mirror Mall”. The video game is a world within a mirror, where two young cherubs flee heaven to the void beyond. This immersive performance is a collaboration with composer and sound designer Kris Wratt.
Find out more: hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/fantasia-malware-fever-loop-fountain-4-overstimulation-propaganda

Talk & Play #49
2025-02-12 18:30 - 22:00 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet in a friendly, relaxed and safe environment. Everybody’s welcome, regardless of their background and knowledge level: if you’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Find out more at meetup.com/berlingamescene/events/305861416/

Gamerausch: INDIKA
2025-02-16 18:30 - 23:00 | Filmrauschpalast, Lehrter Str. 35, Berlin, 10557, Germany
In the second event of this year’s GAMERAUSCH series, we play INDIKA (2024) and follow the story of the young nun of the same name who lives in a monastery in an alternative 19th century Russia. The task of the game is simple: Indika is commissioned by the superior of her Russian Orthodox order to deliver a letter. So far, so good. But she is not traveling alone. Her companion is the devil, who whispers in her ear and tries to dissuade her from the righteous path.
The adventure game by the exiled Russian development team Odd-Meter critically, mysteriously and sometimes satirically deals with the history and present of the Russian Orthodox Church and its influence on Russian society – against a visually stunning backdrop and with, in the truest sense, plenty of unorthodox storytelling.
To do justice to this surprise hit of last year, we are showing/playing INDIKA in full length (approx 4-5 hrs incl. Break) and on the big screen as usual.
Original Language with English Subtitles.
Find out more: instagram.com/gamerausch/ // www.filmrausch.de

Metacore Core Talks
2025-02-25 18:00 - 22:00 | AYOKA Event Space, Friedrichstraße 182, Berlin, 10117, Germany
Core Talks is back in Berlin! Join us to toast Metacore’s 1st anniversary in the city with an evening full of networking, industry insights, and overall good times over food and drinks 🤩
Find out more: lyyti.fi/reg/metacore-core-talks-berlin-2025

Game Creators Hangout
2025-03-06 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-03 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-01 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-06-05 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-03 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-07 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-09-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-02 19:00 - 22:00 and 2 more dates | 12 Grad Aetherloge, Frankfurter Allee 24, Berlin, Berlin, 10247, Germany
Note: always check the Meetup page for each edition to ensure the correct location of this event as it changes sometimes!
The Hangout is a place where those who create games or are interested in it meet up and talk about whatever they like. Its a place for the community, but also to connect people from different communities. It does not matter whether you’re a veteran game dev, just started school or just dabble in creating games in your free time – all of you are welcome here.
Accessibility: There is a small step at the entrance. Seating is available inside as well as outside. Some tables are only accessible via a few steps. For this evening, the bar is smoke free, but usually it is a smoker bar.
Find out more: meetup.com/game-developers-berlin/

Talk & Play #50
2025-04-09 18:30 - 22:00 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet in a friendly, relaxed and safe environment. Everybody’s welcome, regardless of their background and knowledge level: if you’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Find out more: meetup.com/berlingamescene/

A MAZE. / Berlin 2025
2025-05-14 - 2025-05-18 | Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, Berlin, 13347, Germany
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival, a platform for independent and arthouse games and explores the world and culture of playful media.
Find out more: 2025.amaze-berlin.de

Gamerausch: FIREWATCH
2026-02-14 18:00 - 23:30 | Filmrauschpalast, Lehrter Str. 35, Berlin, 10557, Germany
Firewatch (USA 2016, Campo Santo, 480 Min, original language with German subtitles)
Exactly ten years after its release, FIREWATCH is already considered a classic in video game history. In the hot summer of 1989, the game’s protagonist, Henry, travels to a US national park. He will spend the summer living in seclusion in a lookout tower, keeping an eye out for forest fires as a “firewatcher.” His only contact with the outside world is via radio communication with his colleague Delilah.
Together with Henry, we experience the beauty of the national park in breathtaking images, witness increasingly mysterious events, and are ultimately confronted with the big questions: How do we deal with grief and loss? What does it mean to take responsibility in life? And how is it possible to maintain solidarity with other people in times of crisis?
Our game scholar Lars Dolkemeyer provides an introduction to these themes in the game and the perspectives that FIREWATCH opens up. As always, the game will be played together and in its full length.
Find out more: linktr.ee/gamerausch

Cultural Heritage Meets Game Development
2026-02-20 15:00 - 19:00 | Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung, Am Kupfergraben 10, Berlin, 10117, Germany
As collectibles and objects of scientific study, computer games have long been at the focus of cultural heritage and research institutions. However, sustained dialogue between universities, archives, libraries and museums and creative companies in the games industry is still in its early stages — despite the considerable potential for mutual learning, inspiration and collaboration.
To explore the scope of such cross-disciplinary exchange and to discuss concrete fields of application for gamification and 3D animation technologies, the FemDevsMeetup network, in collaboration with NFDI4Culture, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and the Centre for Cultural Education of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Haus Bastian), invites you to this event.
Find out more: https://nfdi4culture.de/events/details/cultural-heritage-meets-game-development.html

Talk & Play #54
2026-02-23 18:30 - 22:00 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event taking place since 2013 every two months that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet and exchange knowledge in a friendly, relaxed and safe environment.
Everybody’s welcome, regardless of their background and knowledge level: if you like games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! Important: this is NOT an event only aimed at developers!

Game Creators Hangout
2026-03-05 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-02 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-07 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-06-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-07-02 19:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Various Venues, Berlin, Germany
Note: always check the Meetup page for each edition to see the location of this event as it changes from time to time!
The Hangout is a place where those who create games or are interested in it meet up and talk about whatever they like. Its a place for the community, but also to connect people from different communities. It does not matter whether you’re a veteran game dev, just started school or just dabble in creating games in your free time – all of you are welcome here.
Find out more: meetup.com/game-developers-berlin/

Press Start For Art
2026-03-13 - 2026-03-16 | HAU3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Accompanying the performances of Fantasia Malware, an installation and discourse programme on the dynamic fusion of performance, art and gaming culture will take place in cooperation with the DKB Foundation and CAA Berlin. Gaming is more than entertainment – it is a form of artistic expression, a mirror of society and a defining visual culture all at once. The programme shows how artists transform gaming aesthetics and mechanisms into a visual, socially critical language. HAU3 transforms into an experimental playground where visitors not only watch, but also immerse themselves in playable worlds.
The exhibition “Press Start For Art” shows how artists appropriate games: as material, as a figure of thought, as a means of access. While some works can actually be played, others use elements such as avatars, interface aesthetics, or level logic. This creates game worlds in which very specific rules apply. It’s all about identity, control, and society. Between interactive installations and video works, visitors move through a space in which self-empowerment and images of society are renegotiated. In this process, the game becomes an artistic tool that allows us to take a critical look at current events.
Find out more: https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/ausstellung-playmodeexe-1

Fantasia Malware — Feral Loop Fever
2026-03-13 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-03-14 20:00 - 23:00 | HAU3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Presenting video games in unique performative settings is the hallmark of the Berlin collective Fantasia Malware, who return to HAU in 2026 to present three new short performances. Inspired by video game streams on platforms like Twitch or YouTube, the group develops its own video games and plays them live in front of audiences, turning online modes of social interaction into a shared, physical experience. Each of the three performances combines the tradition of reading stories to an audience with video game technology and culture. The games navigate through stories about landlords, child-like jesters and Google spreadsheets.
“Mirror Mall: Into the Heavens” follows the journey of two child-like jesters who want to escape the Sun – an oppressive and controlling adult figure who dominates their world. The performance is based on experiences growing up queer in the Australian suburban Christian school system.
“LANDLORDS” is the story of one life told through five landlords. The game begins as a black-and-white pixelated poem and develops into a kaleidoscopic 3D dream.
“((sycophant’s sky chart))” is a multi-level text-based game written in Google Sheets. The performance navigates through three parallel worlds, minimal and immersive, coherent and discordant, fantastical and malfunctioning.
Find out more: https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/fantasia-malware-feral-loop-fever

Talk & Play #55
2026-04-22 18:30 - 22:00 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany

A MAZE. / Berlin 2026
2026-05-13 - 2026-05-17 | Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, Berlin, 13347, Germany
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival, a platform for independent and arthouse games and explores the world and culture of playful media.
Find out more: 2026.amaze-berlin.de
