By Ronald Gordon I have avoided them. Throughout my gaming history, there’s one category of games that I personally eschew: those games where my screen gets littered with bright, exploding lights that I have to dodge, and enemies that I have to kill. I’m referring to Bullet Hell games, a special sub-genre of shoot ‘em up…
So many things! What do I play with first?! says our writer. By Jeffrey Mizrahi When Destiny 2 launched, it suffered from a severe identity crisis. Bungie was trying to make a game that would appeal equally to a casual Destiny audience, as well as a more heavily engaged one. The results weren’t pretty. The hardcore…
By Shane Ferguson Marvel’s Spider-Man on the PlayStation 4 is a love letter and spiritual successor to every Spider-Man game that came before it. How do I know? Spider-Man is my favorite character not only in comic books, but in pop culture – period. I’m not sure if it’s his combat ability, cool costume and powers,…
We want the New York Game Awards to be the people’s game awards, of the people, for the people. So guess what? We’ll be giving out a game code each week leading up to the New York Game Awards on 1/22/19. For every 10 people that buy a tax-deductible ticket on Eventbrite, one will get a…
By Desiree Bonilla Flipping Death is an engaging puzzle platform game with mild horror elements created by Zoink! Games. Here, you play as a girl named Penny, a very brave and unpredictable person. She used to work at a funeral home but got into trouble and lost her job. Because she wanted to liven things up, she jumped…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Is it amazing fun or mere glitz that gets in your way? This week, Electronic Arts is holding an Open Beta for players to try out their upcoming World War-inspired II first-person shooter, Battlefield V. I was pleased to hear last week that the game was delayed from mid-October to mid-November for several reasons. Not…
By Harold Goldberg We don’t usually tout our community service work here, although we sometimes mention what we’re doing in Manhattan, the Bronx and beyond. But I think it’s OK to have someone do it for us, especially when it’s someone smart who knows the world of community service well. The New York Public Library’s Thomas Knowlton recently sent this note to the…
Played on Xbox One, also for PS4, Switch & Windows. By Ronald Gordon Some dungeon crawler games feel repetitive with regard to theme and gameplay. Time and time again, we’ve all seen offerings that try to replicate the intensity of “Dark Souls” and after a while, these ideas get overused and boring. However, when it…
*Early Bird Discount Tickets Available NOW from Eventbrite! *Emmy-winning “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” writers to host the New York Game Awards. *Our First Woman Legend Award Winner to be revealed soon! Mark your calendars for January 22, 2019 at 8 p.m.! The New York Videogame Critics Circle, a 501(c)3 non-profit group of 40 multicultural journalists, is…
By Isaac Espinosa When a society divided by technology becomes more and more dangerous, how do you decide who to trust or steer away from? 2064 Read Only Memories Integral is an indie graphic adventure game developed by MidBoss and available on Nintendo Switch. (2064 Read Only Memories – minus the Integral – is on…
By Harold Goldberg Last night at our conference room at The Yard, the Circle played host to long time adventure game creator, Dave Gilbert. The affable Gilbert, who resides in Brooklyn where he toils to make his Wadjet Eye productions, sets all of his narrative-rich games in New York City. That includes Unavowed,…
By Harold Goldberg It’s a deep flaw game writers have and it’s a flaw that I have, too. Game journalists don’t really take the time to write about books, certainly not nearly enough. Sure, occasionally a non-fiction tome will incite lemmings in search of hits to outdo each other with praise. But when it comes…
