By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. This week, our critics are wrestling with the glut of new releases that hit in February. Plus, we welcome and congratulate the Critics Circle’s two newest interns.…
By Harold Goldberg All of us at the New York Videogame Critics Circle would like readers to note that intern Kimari Rennis has been accepted into New York University’s Future Game Designers program. The prestigious 14-week program, which meets all day on Saturdays through May 11th, is a move forward for the Bronx teen as…
By Zante Barker Action-adventure games can bring me a mix of feelings, a sense calm, joy and also, frustration. Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy from THQ Nordic (Switch) is a single player game where you as Sphinx travel through Egypt. There’s a circuitous plot involving Sacred Crowns and Canopic Vases. It’s kind of hard to…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. This week, our writers are looking inward, whether at the unseen effects of intense gaming on the brain or at the unremembered moments that made them the…
By Ronald Gordon It’s back! In Far Cry New Dawn, the post apocalypse returns in a world where “power is the only currency.” This action-adventure/first person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal takes place after the events of last year’s Far Cry 5 in a place called Hope County, a lovely, bucolic area that managed to survive…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. In this installment, our writers look at the evolving landscapes of two genres that couldn’t possibly be more different: battle royale shooters and newspaper word games.…
By Isaac Espinosa When the Mario Brothers are trapped within the gut of their spiked-shell-backed nemesis, will the Mushroom Kingdom ever be safe again? Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey is an HD enhancement of a 2009 role playing game for the 3DS. In order to sell it again (as…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. We’re on the precipice of a shockingly jam-packed February for games, but before we get there, The Roundup is taking one last look back at the month…
From my experience, players in Fallout 76 are either complete assholes or very awkward to communicate with. By Kimari Rennis When you fall in love with a franchise, game company, or even a TV show, you eagerly look for the new content that will be produced by that revered source. Feverishly, you crave that series…
The photos below were taken by Ken Questa, the official New York Game Awards Photographer.
By Matt Gerardi It’s a big week here at the New York Videogame Critics Circle. First, we held the eighth annual New York Videogame Awards, and it was the biggest and best show in the event’s history. And now, we bring you the return of The Roundup, our weekly look at recent work from our…
Here are photographs from our landmark 8th Annual New York Game Awards presented by the New York Videogame Critics Circle, which had 400,000 viewers on Twitch. Awards founder Harold Goldberg stood under the marquee at SVA Theatre. We’ve had a number of venues for the Awards in the past. But this is the first time…
