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.
Indie Arcades and Wu-Tang Joust: Photos from the Motherboard Relaunch…
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.
See The Room That Ate Ms. Pac-Man and Three Other One-of-a-Kind Video…
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.
Here's How to Throw a Hadouken—in Real Life
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…
Hi There, Ridiculously Enormous Two-Person Mario Bros. Controller
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.
Some of Keita Takahashi's Video Game Dreams Will Come True This Summer, …
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…
This is What A Video Game Played In a Planetarium Looks Like
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.
To-Do In New York: Be Part of a 200-Person Sci-Fi Video Game in a…
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.
This Video Might Convince Your Doubtful Friends That Games Can Be Art
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 curator…
Sexual Video Games Are Good For Us
Recently, I curated an exhibit at Brooklyn's Babycastles arcade, currently housed in a Williamsburg show space where indie games are on display in hand-made cabinets, alongside a lineup of bands.
If Dadaists Opened An Arcade, It Would Look Like This
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.
To-Do In New York: Bring your Ears to the Blip Festival
Blip Festival 2011 starts... tonight! Never mind that it's almost tonight. If you like chiptunes, if you want to hear music that bleeps and bloops rather than hums and sings, if you like lo-fi electronica, or if you just want to increase your odds of bumping into Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander, go to the festival.
Don't Call This New York Arcade an Art Exhibit
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.
These Are Wood Pokémon
Some people say there are no wood Pokémon. Not true. There are woodcut Pokémon.
Visit A Place Where It Is OK To Hug Arcade Machines
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.
To-Do In New York City: Babycastles Art Arcade Opening
Los Angeles people get Indiecade this weekend. New Yorkers get Babycastles, the upstart art arcade group that kicks off its biggest event tonight.