By Harold Goldberg For the past 12 weeks, the New York Videogame Critics Circle has taught a games journalism course at one of the Henry Street Settlement’s Community Centers on the Lower East Side. The center is generally an after school hang for young people, a welcoming place to congregate. It’s not a place where…
The excellent Nancy J. Parisi, who’s snapped everyone from RBG to Barack Obama to The Goo-Goo Dolls, was the New York Game Awards’ official photographer this year. Here are photos leading up to the show at SVA Theatre. (The exceptions are John Azzilonna’s animation, which begins this post and those with the byline of 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. After a brief Thanksgiving reprieve, we’re back with what could be the final Roundup of the year. This week, we’re taking a peek back at the last…
By Isaac Espinosa Equip your Pokeballs! Take up your town maps, and travel through Galar for a brand new Pokemon adventure! Pokemon Sword and Shield, the newest entries in the Pokemon franchise, were developed by Game Freak and published to the Nintendo Switch by The Pokemon Company. But unlike most Pokemon games, Sword and Shield…
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, critics celebrate the biggest Pokémon yet and the 15th anniversary of Halo 2’s industry-changing innovations. Plus, the world of Death Stranding gets explained and one…
By Isaac Espinosa Grasp your Ring-Con, and travel through an adventure of fitness and excitement! That’s Nintendo’s hope for Ring Fit Adventure, a brand new fitness game developed and published by Nintendo. Their interesting riff on a Pilates Ring, the Ring-Con, allows for an exercising experience that combines elements of role-playing games with effective workout…
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 fall into the wordy embrace of massive, wordy computer RPGs, both new and old. Plus, a new Star Wars game impresses, a new…
By Isaac Espinosa Recently, Ubisoft and the Games for Change organization presented a “Keys to Learn” event in New York City. During these wonderful hours, I was able to learn about how gaming has been – and continues to be used – as a platform to teach people about education and even social justice. And…
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 give impressions from the first few hours of Ghost Recon Breakpoint and from many, many hours of Borderlands 3. Plus Ubisoft gets in…
By Isaac Espinosa A lone robot awakens in a massive sandstorm, and it becomes your duty to bring the machine in the mountain back to life, and bring light back to the lonely town of Mirage. “Creature in The Well” is a hack-and-slash, pinball-inspired dungeon crawler developed and published by Flight School Studios and playable…
