By Jonathan G. Lee Hello! It’s Jon again with your Circle Roundup. Today’s Roundup is dedicated to Doubleagent, the world’s first and only neutral level 100 player in World of Warcraft. Last week, Doubleagent officially entered the World of Warcraft: Legion expansion by dinging to level 101. Doubleagent’s story is a shining example of the larger…
By Harold Goldberg CNET’s Dan Ackerman has been a loyal New York Videogame Critics Circle member pretty much from Day One. This week, Ackerman’s first tome hits bookshelves, and there’s reason for celebration. The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized The World delves deeply into the stunning narrative surrounding the creation of Tetris, one of the games…
By Jonathan G. Lee Hello, hello! Jon again with your weekly Circle Roundup. This week’s Roundup is brought to you by the wonderful month of September, the harbinger of fall. Thank you, September, for your apple cider, beautiful foliage, sensibly cool weather, Halloween, and being by far the best time of the year to play…
By Steven Petite In a game where humans have been mechanically altered with special abilities, where the protagonist is the most advanced augmented individual around, you would expect to have convenient communicative technologies at your disposal, right? A few hours into Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, protagonist Adam Jensen needs to get a hold of David…
By Jonathan G. Lee Greetings! Jon here with your weekly Circle Roundup. Did you know General George Patton was an Olympian? He placed 5th in the pentathlon for the 1912 Olympics. Perhaps more relevant to us, that same year Pierre de Coubertin (the founder of the modern day Olympic Games) introduced an arts competition. The gold…
By Jonathan G. Lee Greetings! Today’s Circle Roundup is brought to you by currywurst. I had currywurst for the first time this past Saturday! Up until then, I always wanted to try it and suspected I would like it. I was working a food festival that day and I saw a tent serving German brats,…
By Jonathan G. Lee Hello, hello! It’s Jon here again with your weekly Circle Roundup! I hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend. I have some relatives visiting from the old country and my uncle has never had Mediterranean food before, so my Labor Day was spent eating green lentil stew instead of…
By Jonathan G. Lee Hello friends! Jon here with another week of The Circle Round Up. Am I the only person that’s been enjoying this rain? I love rain. In fact, when I’m writing, I don’t play background music, I play background rain. When it’s pouring, I’ll even open my window a crack so I…
By Jonathan G. Lee Yo! Jon here again with your weekly Circle Round Up. So, I’m a curious person by nature, and my recent love of coffee has gotten me experimenting. A few days ago I thought, hey, I love coffee and I also love lemonade. People add sweeteners to coffee. Why not squeeze a…
By Jonathan G. Lee Hey! It’s Jon again. After 31 years of water and juice, I have become hopelessly addicted to coffee over the past month and now I understand why. Caffeine is like legalized PEDs for writers. This week’s Circle Round Up is brought you by the coffee bean, which is probably also responsible…
By Jonathan G. Lee Yo! Jon here. Lucy is taking a break so I’ll be filling in for her this week. For those of you who made it out to our Barcade community event, it was great seeing you all again! Christopher Byrd explores the “boisterously odd” Headlander, Double Fine’s first title published under Adult…
Right now, we’re witnessing the first waves of transition that transforms Blizzard from being a game developer to a multimedia company, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all these moves are happening within the same year as Overwatch.
