The guys over at the indie gaming collective Babycastles have just announced that they are seeking donations for a permanent gallery space in New York City. We have covered some of their events before, including a game of Pac-Man projected on an entire room. For more, visit their site. » 11/26/13 5:11pm 11/26/13 5:11pm

Last night, Vice's sub-site Motherboard celebrated its official relaunching the best way possible: by throwing a giant party, having Rza play and getting everyone drunk. Indie arcade-makers Babycastles were also there to bring their own brand of gaming weirdness along with the whole gang behind Sportsfriends. » 11/30/12 1:00pm 11/30/12 1:00pm

Proof that video games are art isn't just on the screen. Sometimes it can be right in front of you, in the form of an arcade classic that swallows a whole room or tricked-out gloves that let you throw a Street Fighter fireball. » 9/03/12 5:00pm 9/03/12 5:00pm

Babycastles, the video games arts collective, is back in New York, teaming with Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi to deliver interpretations of Mario Bros., Ms. Pac-Man and a Defender-style side-scrolling shooter. Here's their latest concept, which brings hadoukens to real-life, sort of. Watch this video of… » 9/01/12 3:20pm 9/01/12 3:20pm

More weird riffs on classic video games from the New York City gaming collective Babycastles and Katamari Damacy dreamer Keita Takahashi. We showed you their unusual takes on Ms. Pac-Man and an old-school shmup. Here's Mario Bros. » 8/30/12 9:00pm 8/30/12 9:00pm

Imagine a Defender-style video game where you had to jog across the entire floor of a building to play it. No, wait; don't imagine that. One Japanese-born game designer already did. And it's pretty great. » 8/29/12 2:00pm 8/29/12 2:00pm

Keita Takahashi, the free-thinking creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy is teaming up with Babycastles, the free-thinking New York City-based video game art curators for a most wonderful exhibition. They're turning several of Takahashi's brainstorms into real-world, physical games for an exhibition premiering… » 7/30/12 3:30pm 7/30/12 3:30pm

Check out this test run of Space Cruiser, a video game that will be played by some 200 people on Thursday evening at New York City's American Museum of Natural History. (Event details here. But it's now sold out.) Video by Ida Benedetto. » 1/25/12 11:30am 1/25/12 11:30am

What are you doing on Thursday evening? If you're in New York City or the surrounding area, consider going to Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, an event at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space. » 1/24/12 6:30pm 1/24/12 6:30pm

For a relaxing time, sit back and watch this terrific PBS short documentary on the artistic merits of video games. The video runs only about 7 minutes, and features NYU's Eric Zimmerman, game designer and researcher Jesper Juul, Kotaku contributor and secret nerdcore superstar Leigh Alexander, and Babycastles… » 10/26/11 9:30pm 10/26/11 9:30pm

While debate persists over the merit of video games an art form, the medium has reached an undeniable milestone: the emergence of an active counter-culture. » 5/20/11 3:20pm 5/20/11 3:20pm

Is it art, or is at an arcade? Kunal Gupta, the co-creator of New York City's underground indie games exhibition explains why Babycastles is more arcade than art. » 4/27/11 5:20pm 4/27/11 5:20pm

Some people say there are no wood Pokémon. Not true. There are woodcut Pokémon. » 11/24/10 4:00pm 11/24/10 4:00pm

In Manhattan, there is this place where you are supposed to hug an arcade machine, where there's one arcade cabinet made of wood, another made of Papier-mâché and where you can play games you may have heard of but probably never played. » 10/22/10 10:40am 10/22/10 10:40am

Los Angeles people get Indiecade this weekend. New Yorkers get Babycastles, the upstart art arcade group that kicks off its biggest event tonight. » 10/08/10 1:40pm 10/08/10 1:40pm