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We are the official page for University of Southern California's Games department.

We’re live, and the games are in full swing! 👾Take a look behind the scenes at some gameplay highlights so far!
05/13/2026

We’re live, and the games are in full swing! 👾
Take a look behind the scenes at some gameplay highlights so far!

05/12/2026

We’ve made it 🎉
The FINAL Trailer Drop before USC Games 2026 Expo: Stitchlings!

Stitchlings is a couch co-op, top-down, hack-and-slash game where the enemies you defeat become parts to stitch onto your character. Play as a plush doll in a miniature world made of arts and crafts, battling dust bunnies and toy amalgamations. Grab a friend, discover the secrets of this haunted patchwork world, and find your place in it...together!

Find out more about Stitchlings at https://linktr.ee/stitchlings.game

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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05/11/2026

Another day, another reveal, 👀..and this one’s awesome: Masterworks of Horror: The Prologue from our 2026 Advanced Games Project (AGP) course.

Bring your favorite stories to life using the works of legendary horror authors and become the genre’s greatest wordsmith in Masterworks of Horror: Lovecraft’s Gambit. Collect cards and build fully-customizable decks of literary mash-ups to best your opponent in this real-time card game battler. Do you have what it takes to embody horror’s most celebrated authors and create your own Masterwork?

Find out more about Masterworks of Horror at https://loom.ly/ZIQA7dk

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://loom.ly/cgEiEYw

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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05/11/2026

One day left to the USC Games 2026! Check out the penultimate trailer drop - one of our 2026 Advanced Games Project (AGP) games, B.L.U.E

B.L.U.E. is a multiplayer engineering combat sandbox set in deep space. Build your own ships with modular parts, shape their behavior through real physics, and take them into battles where every force, collision, and failure is accurately simulated. Use intuitive engineering tools to design engines, structures, and systems that actually work in an experience where every design choice matters. Experiment with mass, balance, thrust, durability, and more. Whether you enjoy building, competing, or experimenting, B.L.U.E. lets you bring your imagined spacecraft to life and watch them fly!

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://loom.ly/cgEiEYw

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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05/10/2026

We’re just getting started (we’re joking, this is the halfway mark!)! Next up in our USC Games 2026 Expo Trailer Drops: Baacadia, a 2026 Advanced Games Project!

Baacadia is a 3D exploration game where you guide a flock of friendly Cloudfens—fluffy alien sheep—across a broken planet in need of healing. As a recorder robot built to capture and replay sounds, you will discover how your audio toolkit shapes the world around you. Watch your flock respond to each frequency. See flora bloom and fauna stir. Learn what this alien landscape remembers. No combat. No failure. Just sound, observation, a world that responds to every sound you play, and wool.

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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05/10/2026

We have more USC Games Expo Countdown trailers on the way! Next up is THE UNREALTOR

Welcome home to THE UNREALTOR — a co-op puzzle adventure game where you and a friend are Maya and Noah, future roommates trapped in a house tour that spirals into a shifting maze of impossible architecture. To escape this house-tour-from-hell, you’ll solve a series of perspective-based visual puzzles, hunting for split objects that match across your shared screen. Each puzzle solved transforms the home—unraveling new rooms, bending the laws of physics, and revealing even stranger challenges. As you dive deeper, you'll uncover the home’s enigmatic past and, with any luck, find a way out.

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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05/09/2026

You know what time it is—it’s Trailer Drop season for the USC Games 2026 Expo! Our 5th trailer in the series is Sisyphus’s Worst Day (again).

Sisyphus’s Worst Day Ever is a mischievous 3D puzzle game for clever strategists and fans of dark humor. Instead of solving for escape, you cleverly orchestrate an endless cycle of loops, ensuring Sisyphus always finds himself one step away from freedom—and somehow, always back at square one. As Zeus’s newest intern, you’ll engineer delightfully twisted contraptions and mind-bending scenarios, turning every hill into an inescapable carousel of frustration. With each level, Sisyphus comes so close to breaking the cycle, only to be spun right back where he started.

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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Cal State Fullerton

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✦✦ Video Editor: Bitsyflick

05/09/2026

We’re keeping the Countdown Momentum going! Check out our next trailer drop, Aftertaste!

Aftertaste is a surreal 3D adventure side-scrolling platformer where you play as a sentient tongue. Play through the bizarre, cute, and heartfelt environment of a chef's inner organs, which represent the process of burnout, and taste what it means to fall back in love with your passion. In this narrative-driven experience, discover a stylized world where every organ tells a story, and every action illustrates a thoughtful metaphor.

Check out more about Aftertaste at www.instagram.com/aftertaste_game

And check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




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USC School of Cinematic Arts
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Otis College of Art & Design
Cal State Fullerton

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05/08/2026

The countdown rolls on with a look at Lucky Duckies, a 2026 Advanced Games Project!

Grab a friend and dive into Lucky Duckies, a delightfully goofy co-op 3D puzzle-platformer that mixes bouncy movement, water-spray hijinks, and over-the-top bath-time chaos. As two rubber duck parents, you’ll team up to rescue stranded ducklings across an overflowing bathroom, working together to spin water wheels, raise platforms, and launch each other through bubbly obstacle courses that will have you quacking up. Pick your duck, grab a controller, and get your ducks in a row for the bubbliest co-op adventure of your life!

To find out more about Lucky Duckies, go tohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4506950/Lucky_Duckies/

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




University of Southern California/USC
USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC Viterbi School for Engineering
Otis College of Art & Design
Cal State Fullerton

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▶️LinkedIn: uscgames
▶️Instagram: .games
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05/08/2026

USC Games 2026 Expo Trailer Drops continue! Today we’re spotlighting Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine — another 2026 Advanced Games Project headed to the big show on May 12th!

Glorgo’s Microplastics Mine is an absurd, eccentric, incremental resource manager that puts the player in the shoes of an overworked, underpaid middle-manager. Oversee the enthusiastic miners under your direction as they mutate into something distinctly inhuman in the pursuit of growing capital for a scheming and callous boss. Amass a hoard of wealth, navigate the vast, eerie alien mines, and encounter voracious plastic beasts in a colorful, Y2K-themed dystopia filled with mayhem, microplastics, and monsters.

To find out more about Glorgo's, go to https://glorgogame.com/

Check out the game at the 2026 USC Games Expo, happening LIVE on USC’s campus on May 12th, 2026, starting with the AGP Spotlight Show streaming LIVE at 4 PM PDT at uscgamesexpo.com and www.twitch.tv/uscgames!

USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program for a majority of the last fifteen years--according to the Princeton Review--features the work of the game designers and developers of tomorrow.

The show will feature over 60 final student projects, which will also be downloadable--and streaming content viewable--at www.uscgamesexpo.com.

This is the 10th Expo for the 20+ year old program, continuing its legacy of making it the largest university-sponsored gaming and esports event in the world.

USC Games represents an exciting collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts’ Interactive Media & Games Division and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science.

Incorporating elements of design, artistry, and engineering, the joint program offers a unique educational experience for students and serves as the launching pad for them to play significant roles in the game design field. https://games.usc.edu

Save the Date, Tune in to the Stream, Sign up for Updates, and Join the Mailing List at games.usc.edu!




University of Southern California/USC
USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC Viterbi School for Engineering
Otis College of Art & Design
Cal State Fullerton

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▶️LinkedIn: uscgames
▶️Instagram: .games
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