by Jill Scharr Thanks to everyone who came out to the second annual awards ceremony! The Walking Dead swept the show with four wins: Best Writing, Best Indie, Best Game, and Best Voice Acting for Melissa Hutchison’s Clementine. Journey, Dishonored, The Room, The Unfinished Swan and Sound Shapes were all honored as well. The full awards listing is as follows:…
Thanks to all who made the 2nd Annual New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards a smashing success last night! Game developers, critics, celebrities, educators and fans came together in Brooklyn for an epic ceremony. And thousands more checked the event out on Ustream. Here are the winners! Big Apple Award for Best Videogame The Walking…
It’s hard to believe that the New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards will actually happen tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. To put this event together on a shoestring budget has been a long, arduous process. But it’s going to be worth it! If you can’t make to the Awards tomorrow, you can still watch the…
I’m quite happy to announce that the always-satirical Schaffer The Darklord will be performing at the New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards on February 5, 2013 at NYU’s Pfizer Auditorium. Here’s how it happened. When we convene for meetings, Schaffer’s work is often a topic of conversation, and when we began to plan the Awards, his…
By Harold Goldberg Last week, I traveled up to the DreamYard Prep School in the Bronx. Once at the building at 172nd Street, I passed through a metal detector and was escorted up to the school’s top floor and into a comfortable library. The room was so inviting that I thought of Andrew Carnegie’s quote,…
In the summer of 2012, Kyle Moody was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. This is the story of how gaming helped him to cope with his new condition. By Kyle Moody Every two hours I prick my finger, scrape the blood off with a test strip, and then record a number in a book.…
Illustrator Matthew Nava provides insight into the design behind the truly intuitive game, Journey. By ANNATRUUS BAKKER Matthew Nava came to hear about the Journey project in his first job interview with thatgamecompany back when Flower was still a work in progress. Jenova Chen, thatgamecompany’s creative director, asked Nava what he thought “an online multiplayer…
It’s almost here, and the cretins will definitely be hopping. Our very first Halloween Hoohah is really coming together. And we want you ghouls, geeks and goblins to be there. So RSVP on our Facebook Page! Here’s the complete scoop for our event at The Suffolk Bar, 107 Suffolk Street, next Monday, October 22 at…
Herewith, we continue our in depth look at the Razer Blade gaming laptop. Once I got a good feeling for the design and general strength of theRazer Blade, I soldiered onward to game play. Ramping up slowly and steadily, I cautiously played more and more powerful games. My worried concern? I didn’t want to see…
As we continue our long form look into the newest Razer Blade Gaming laptop, I want to take on a few more design points. While this might not seem as important as clock speed or graphics performance, it’s going to make a difference when you play games and when you use the laptop for other…