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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.

October 27, 2011
In Real Life

This Video Might Convince Your 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 seven minutes, and features NYU’s Eric Zimmerman, game designer and researcher Jesper Juul, Kotaku contributor and secret nerdcore superstar Leigh Alexander, and Babycastles curator and designer Syed Salahuddin.

May 21, 2011
In Real Life

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.

April 28, 2011
In Real Life

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.

November 25, 2010
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These Are Wood Pokémon

Some people say there are no wood Pokémon. Not true. There are woodcut Pokémon.

October 23, 2010
In Real Life

Visit A Place Where It Is OK To Hug Arcade Machines

In Manhattan, there is this place where you a guy is 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.

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