In this final part of the Critics Circle’s week-long series, Mac Walters espouses his views on the Illusive Man. Who is he? How did he come to be? Was his creation really inspired by The Smoking Man on The X-Files? Read on! HG: What is the overarching role of the Illusive Man in the comics?…
In this portion of our week-long Q/A, Mac Walters waxes on about the Mass Effect comic. How does it distinguish itself from the videogame? And how is it like the videogame. Mac tells you, right here. HG: When you look at Mass Effect as a comic in particular, do you always look at what readers…
Today, Mass Effect’s Mac Walters continues to speak about the craft of writing, giving you a look at the complete writing process for the series which takes place at BioWare’s lair in Vancouver HG: You’re writing up to 30,000 lines of script per game. How do you manage that? MW: It’s up to me as…
A while back, Mass Effect genius Mac Walters and I had a talk about the art of writing in the science fiction videogame series, the latest iteration of which tops many year end lists this year. About one-sixth of this five-part series was published in EGM. But, as writing in games begins to get the…
Next week, I’ll begin a week long series on the writing within one of the decades great series, Mass Effect. It’s a five-part interview with Mac Walters on the writing in the game series and in the comic book series. Mac really waxes profound throughout. Right now, it’s time for some holiday levity. Here’s Vikings…
Last week’s NYGCC panel tackled a ton of interesting topics, but there was one point in particular that resonated with me: Evan Narcisse’s comment that this year, we saw a lot of good games, but not a lot of great games. It was a solid year, Evan said, but we saw too many sequels and…
I’ve always been drawn to Guerrilla Games’ Killzone series. While I’m not the biggest fan of the military shooter (whether it’s set in a sci-fi universe or in the present day), there’s something compelling about Killzone that rustles up the team spirit in me as a single player. Maybe it’s the dark soul of the…
Our panel with the NY Gaming Meetup folks was lively and opinionated. I led the charge as Evan Narcisse, Tracey John, Andrew Yoon and Russ Frushtick parsed the year in games. The insights were many, some of which are detailed in this thoughful post by Rich Jones. We’re thinking hard about topics for more panels…
On Wednesday, December 8, at AOL Ventures, The New York Videogame Critics Circle is partnering with the excellent New York Gaming Meetup for our first panel discussion. Evan Narcisse, Tracey John, Andrew Yoon, Russ Frushtick and I will talk about the state of videogames. Then we’ll dissect the current indie games scene. It should be…
If you travel to 44th Street’s St. James Theatre to see American Idiot, you’ll witness a play that changes what you’ve thought about Green Day’s epic rock opera concept CD. When you attend, you’ll enjoy a sometimes funny, often Hubert Selby-dark interpretation of Billie Joe Armstrong’s vision of St. Jimmy and Johnny. There’s a lot…