“Talking Games with Reggie and Harold” will be a unique seven-part podcast with former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé and award-winning author/journalist Harold Goldberg. Here is our GoFundMe link. Donations will benefit the New York Videogame Critics Circle nonprofit’s mentoring work in the time of COVID-19. Reggie is an NYVGCC board member and Harold…
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 discussing some of the unseen consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on gaming, a wonderful but unusual new throwback micro-console, and the Animal…
By Jade Entien During this pandemic, spending time with family is important as we stay safe indoors. So, like many, I’ve embraced the opportunity to play video games. With an interesting story to introduce itself, Save Your Nuts is a colorful and vibrant video game that allows up to eight friends to play as various…
By Ronald Gordon Right now, nothing seems more appealing than a warm drink and an open environment for a heart-to-heart talk. And even though I can’t experience that in person until businesses reopen in New York, I had the chance to do so virtually with a lovely game I recently discovered. Honestly, it just makes…
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 look at the 20-year gap between Final Fantasy VII and its ambitious remake, dissect the design of the new PlayStation 5 controller, take…
By Peter Torres That’s one super long bus! Stage Clear Studio’s Snakeybus is an arcade style game that is essentially a take on Snake, but in three dimensional environments. Here, you drive around various locations while picking up and delivering passengers in, say, Seattle, Miami and even the interior of a museum. With four different…
By Mayia Moore Nioh 2, the sequel to the best-selling 2017 samurai game, is a story-filled adventure set in the year 1555 that’s beautiful, frightening – and really hard. Nioh 2 involves monsters and various angry demons in an unfamiliar world of a hero and his destiny. The opening animation has a crazy red moon…
By Harold Goldberg The sun shined brightly, the moon was visible nightly, and thousands of people died. This was a difficult week to be sure, a distressing, sad one where I woke up and that refreshing moment of new strength was replaced by, “Oh. It’s this again. The thing is still here.” If you’re looking…
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 dive headfirst into Valve’s big virtual-reality gamble, the history of Metal Gear and Final Fantasy, and Animal Crossing’s world domination. Plus, our young…
By Isaac Espinosa Now that we’re all confined to the safety of our homes, what better way to vent some of the resulting frustration than to rip and tear the demonic scum that dares to invade the Earth? Doom Eternal, which was published by Bethesda, and developed by id Software and Panic Button Games, takes…