Articles tagged "babycastles"

Partying and playing with an indie gaming supergroup and their innovative, fundamentalist game suite, all under a Kickstarter countdown.

Imagine, the freedom to design your own space launch vehicle without the hassles of "budgetary constraints and bureaucratic wrangling":http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0811/Rover-Curiosity-is-a-star-but-can-it-help-fund-future-of-Mars-exploration. E…

I don't play games. Never have, really. During a blip of my youth you could've found me posted up in my parent's basement, getting down on brick-era Game Boy and SNES classics. True. But for me, as with too many other kids my age itching to kick off

Filled with a renewed sense of child-like wonder (and perhaps a few space martinis), a mixed crowd of lucky star gazers arrived at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City last Thursday to experience the cosmos through a lens like no other: videogames…

Remember your first visit to the planetarium? Neil DeGrasse Tyson does -- it was what inspired him to "become an astrophysicist":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/4/28/the-day-neil-degrasse-tyson-got-a-call-from-the-universe in the first place. That s…

Here's a brazen end-of-the-year declaration I'm not afraid to make: 2011 marked the year that videogames came off our screens and liberally encroached on the physical spaces we inhabit. I'm not talking about the living rooms filled with families gidd…

Whether they require controllers, rocks or even our own bodies to be played, games have been around forever. They were, for a long time, the stuff of diversion; something to do "when the hunt is over and the wolves have been chased away and the dishe…

It's surreal and perhaps a bit jarring to see the products of a resurgent independent videogames culture – one that's until now taken residence inside rough-around-the-edges DIY music venues – find their way to the pristine halls of one of New York C…