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 share perspectives on violence in games, exciting game-design trends, and the perfect summer games to help you close out the season. Plus, an…
By Harold Goldberg During the course of the last six weeks, the New York Videogame Critics Circle, in partnership with the DreamYard Project, has been teaching a daily journalism course in the Bronx to over 20 high school students. The Circle has been mentoring students at the DreamYard Prep School for years now. We offer…
It’s all Borderlands 3! After playing two new hours of this humor-filled open world experience, New York Videogame Critics Circle president and editor in chief Harold Goldberg and senior DreamYard intern Kimari Rennis interviewed Borderlands 3 Senior Writer Danny Homan. Danny expounds upon the motivations of those wonderfully insane Calypso Twins, the brilliance and loneliness…
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 thanks for their gaming beginnings and lessons learned at the Game Devs of Color Expo. Plus, we dig into the latest political…
By Kimari Rennis I’m still thinking about what I learned at the recent Game Devs of Color Expo, a supportive environment for game developers and their fans from various backgrounds held each year in Harlem. The GDoC Expo is very young, but it’s helping the community learn and think about games in important ways. (The…
By Connor Carson It was through my mother’s eyes that I first discovered video games. She was a loyal patron to Sierra On-Line, the developer and publisher cofounded by Roberta and Ken Williams in 1979, and I watched, wide-eyed and delighted, as she played through their many titles – most frequently, King’s Quest (1984 –…
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 go to war—and school—in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, introduce us to a virtual art museum, and take us inside Concrete Genie’s artful adventure.…
