It’s that time of year. We’re all involved in happy holiday hangs, foul-faced Grinches and gifts good and bad up the wazoo. This cornucopia of a podcast features Tom’s Guide’s Sherri Smith, Dan Ackerman and Scott Stein from CNET, Founder Harold Goldberg, and our Special Guest, educator Jeremy Agyemang from the DreamYard Prep School, where…
By Ronald Gordon Eric Jacobus is an independent action star and one of my favorite people in the movie martial arts community. He’s made countless projects on his own that are way better than what you would see in today’s movies. Recently, he was the choreographer for Kratos’ fight scenes in the new God of…
By Harold Goldberg What a great Spring morning it is when two extraordinary games of vastly differing genres (and target demographics) are released in one day. Join CNET’s Dan Ackerman, Tom’s Guide’s Sherri Smith, Superparent’s Libe Ackerman, DreamYard Prep School’s Rudy Blanco and me as we talk passionately about both releases. But first, and most…
By: Jeffrey Mizrahi “Everything is different, boy. Try not to dwell on it.” When Kratos says this to Atreus at the start of God of War, it was obvious this message wasn’t meant only for his son. It was a message from Sony Santa Monica, the developers of the game, to me, the player,…
By Harold Goldberg It’s been such a long time. His hair is graying now. Hell, none of us are kids anymore. But there’s wisdom in maturity, what we’ve absorbed, what we’ve purged, what we hope not to repeat, and that’s a good thing. I first met Cory Barlog, the creative director from Sony’s Santa Monica…
By Harry Rabinowitz From us here at the New York Videogame Critics Circle, a moment of silence… Sara Clemens collects tributes to Satoru Iwata on Videodame. Chelsea Stark reports Oculus‘ acquisition of Pebbles Interfaces, a tech company making VR hand tracking sensors. Ebenezer Samuel reviews God of War III Remastered. Turns out Kratos has aged pretty…
by Harold Goldberg Should a videogame music composer write a book about the trade that’s completely inside baseball? Or should it be more readable, a tome that appeals to the general public as well as to musicians. If it’s the latter, the writer walks a dangerous tightrope. He or she risks alienating the core with…
In which the author learns much and hears the sage words, “Fuck the internet. I swear to God.” by Jill Scharr It’s one thing to write about videogames. It’s quite another thing to write for them. That’s why I attended NYU’s weekend long “Games Writing Master Class” a few weeks ago. The class was taught…
Despite a deep love for breakthrough technology and videogames, I’m still old school. If I spot a magazine I’ve never before seen, I’ll check it out with an enthusiastic curiosity. So it was as I approached a table far away from the concert at Summerstage in Central Park. I was flying from the visceral excitement…