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…
One of the beauties of Giving Tuesday is that it allows people to make small donations to our 501c3 non-profit. Find out what we do here and here. Then, make a donation through Paypal’s Giving Fund. The students and older adults we work with will thank you for it. So will we! Be part of…
By Isaac Espinosa Whoa! It’s trivia and party games on steroids! Inspired by the “You Don’t Know Jack” games which Rockstar lead writer Dan Houser worked on, “Jackpot Party Pack 5” is created with the purpose of bringing liveliness and fun to any gathering! “You Don’t Know Jack,” “Split the Room,” “Mad-Verse City,” “Patently Stupid” and…
By Shane Ferguson Hitman: The Complete First Season was one of my favorite games last year. IO Interactive listened to fan feedback and knocked everything out of the park. The huge maze-like levels provided tons of ways to approach each mission coupled with multiple story kills, targets, personal and online challenges. All that encouraged replayability so…
By Harold Goldberg It was some time in the making. But yesterday, the New York Videogame Critics Circle took about 15 of the students we mentor at the Bronx’s DreamYard Preparatory School to the treasure that is Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art for an exclusive talk with their curators about the museum’s videogame collection. MOMA’s curators…
By Ronald Gordon In the gaming world, you often progress by getting stronger with every enemy you defeat. But what if you got weaker with every kill you made? What if you lost some items or had your health lowered with every opponent you challenged? Do you think you could beat a game that leaves you…
The New York Videogame Critics Circle is now a 501(c)3 non-profit arts education organization. So when we receive a donation, it goes to mentoring kids and older adults with games, games history and games journalism. We are a multicultural organization. Everyone is welcome regardless of race, ethnicity or gender. That’s how we began. That’s how…
By Kimari Rennis There is always that one game that you play that completely changes your perspective on life. It changes your attitude, your demeanor and even what you tend to value. It makes me feel that it’s the little things in the world that make you happy. This game is called Astro Bot Rescue…
By Harold Goldberg A number of people have come up to me in the past week or so with a burning question: “Why you?” They were referring to a process story I wrote for New York magazine and Vulture about Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games nearly perfect epic about the old West in a…
Sometimes, it’s better to watch a video. Here’s Founder Harold Goldberg at Games for Change speaking about what we do at the New York Videogame Critics Circle. Senior DreamYard Intern Kimari Rennis speaks succinctly here as well. It’s not too long and it’s a fine introduction to the Circle and what we do.
By Isaac Espinosa When a source of dark power consumes a King, who will be able to claim the throne as his or her own? With a strategic and complex game system and multiplayer availability, Armello ,made by indie League of Geeks, ensures that the gamers are always aware of what’s happening on the…
By Ronald Gordon It’s what I like. Of all the games I’ve played throughout the years, I repeatedly find myself drawn toward the genre known as adventure games. Something about stepping into a new world and exploring what it holds really draws my attention to the point where if an adventure game is good enough,…
