By Isaac Espinosa Get ready for the jump scares! As Fazbear Entertainment turns their relatively dark history from a bloody animatronic nightmare into a creepier virtual reality experience, you become their play-tester. Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted, made by Steel Wool Entertainment, was created in order to re-purpose the series of horror games…
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 wrestle with some games that might be a little too earnest for their own good and get their hands on Nintendo’s newest bit…
By Ronald Gordon Have you ever seen something so absurd you didn’t even know how to describe it? That was my reaction to experiencing My Friend Pedro. Now I will try my hardest to put that experience into a collection of paragraphs. Wish me luck. My Friend Pedro is a shoot ‘em up developed by…
By Harold Goldberg It’s been many years in the making. But yesterday in a spacious, new classroom in the Bronx, the New York Videogame Critics Circle and The DreamYard Project began a daily journalism course for underserved high school students. The DreamYard created this artful, warm temporary space while a larger Bronx game center…
By Zante Barker Puzzle platform games have been around since the beginning of history, well, games history. They’ve always been a personal favorite because they’re so challenging and require serious strategizing. Maybe it’s because I like math so much, but give me a good puzzle and I’m super happy. Unravel Two is a double-player…
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, it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire for our critics, who had barely just enough time to recover from E3 before being…
By Ronald Gordon We’ve all heard of famous method actors who torture themselves in order to play a role just right. A famous example of this would be Heath Ledger who, in preparation to play The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” locked himself in a hotel room to practice the Clown Prince of…
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 keep working E3 out of their systems with a handful of stories about Nintendo’s upcoming lineup. Plus, Bernie Sanders speaks out on game-industry…
By Isaac Espinosa As a strange blackness overtakes a box-filled world, puzzle solving becomes the only way to save it. BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! is a puzzle game developed by HAL Labs and I played it on the Nintendo Switch system. This new addition to the “BOXBOY!” series features a brand new two-player co-op, along…
New York Videogame Critics Circle founder and editor in chief Harold Goldberg will appear on a panel today at 2 p.m. at the Games for Change conference in New York City. The panel topic is “Beyond STEM, SEL Skills In Game Design Curriculum.” It will be moderated by Games for Change President Susanna Pollack and also…
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 report in from the madness of E3. Plus, reviews of a pair of first-person experiences that couldn’t be more different and a big…
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 explore the dying cosmos of Outer Wilds and the depths of Metal Gear Solid. Plus, a hearty hello to Super Mario Maker 2…
