By Ronald Gordon Not many point and click games grab my attention but there are some that I come across that really catch my eye and draw me in with their stories. The Journey Down is one of those select few that I actually played all the way through. The Journey Down is a three-part…
By Kimari Rennis “Why am I doing this to myself?” is the first thought that came to my mind when I started up The Forest – because I knew what this game was all about. The same phrase replayed louder in my head when the title screen showed a man hanging upside down in…
By Desiree Bonilla Ever wanted to just lie down with a bag of chips and a drink and play a stress-free game for a bit? Well, Shio is probably the game for you. When you indulge, you feel very calm. There’s never a point in the game where you’re stressed out. I feel at…
Harold Goldberg, author, journalist and New York Videogame Critics Circle founder, will speak at the Games for Changes Festival this Thursday, June 28th at 3:15 p.m. The topic is “When Journalists Educate With Games: How and Why the New York Videogame Critics Circle Mentors Students and Older Adults.” During his talk, which will include a…
Writer/intern Jeffrey Mizrahi just came back from E3 as media representing the New York Videogame Critics Circle. Here are his thoughts and musings. By Jeffrey Mizrahi It was thrilling. I was in middle school when I began watching E3 coverage religiously. The last day of classes would often fall on the first day of E3, culminating…
By Harold Goldberg We’re in this cramped, darkened and cold room and the now well-known scene in The Last of Us Part II is playing. That clip features nearly 12 minutes of touching drama and action-oriented gameplay which will forever be thought of as The Kiss. And it made me tear up. I’m still trying…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi E3 is here! The single biggest gaming event of the year is upon us and who better to talk to about it than New York Videogame Critic Circle’s founder, Harold Goldberg. Yesterday, we got to chat one on one discussing what it was like to be in attendance at Playstation’s media briefing, what…
By Kimari Rennis It’s got that necessary dash of mystery. But it’s much more. Unforeseen Incidents is a 2-D point-and-click adventure game that requires you to collect items throughout your environment to solve puzzles. The game is one of a kind with its music, characters and atmospheres that players feel encouraged to jump into and engage…
By Harold Goldberg, Circle Founder I’m thrilled to announce that the New York Videogame Critics Circle will have an excellent fundraiser at E3 this year. It’ll be part of the MSK legal firm‘s party at Lucky Strike Lanes at L.A. Live on the evening of June 13. How did this happen? It’s largely due to…
By Ronald Gordon It’s yet more zombie media! Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles is a series of Horror Adventure games developed and published by Dead Drop Studios. Most of the other games are locked away behind downloadable content, so I only got to play chapter one, which tells the story of a young woman named Lydia,…
By Desiree Bonilla Losing things is part of being human, but did you ever wonder where those missing items go? I lost my headphones once, and I remember being really frustrated because I had no way to listen to music. I spent all day looking around for them. Maybe my headphones ended up in a…
By Shane Ferguson I can’t say I had the highest expectations going into State of Decay 2. With the abundance of zombie apocalypse media released in the past few years, I’ve been taking a brief but much-needed hiatus from the genre. I missed the first State of Decay in the sea of last…
