By Isaac Espinosa Take on the definitive edition of Mario’s new cat-filled adventure and try to tame the gargantuan rage-fueled Bowser! Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is a Nintendo Switch port of the original Wii U title released in November, 2013. Super Mario 3D World has gone through a plethora of changes on…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. In this installment, our writers review Mario’s latest Switch adventure, fills us in on the big news from Nintendo’s latest direct, and find small ways that new consoles…
By Harold Goldberg Part of our New York Videogame Critics Circle Level Up Now scholarship program includes poetry written by high school students who have the world’s biggest entertainment medium in mind – along with salient social justice issues. (We will post the winners of the scholarship contest next week.) People of color haven’t had…
By Ronald Gordon The boundary between the living world and the Spirit World isn’t easily breached. But a few gifted people can learn to tiptoe across this line at will. That might not always be a good thing. Such is the setup within The Medium, a psychological horror game developed and published by Bloober Team…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. In this installment, our writers dig into streaming culture, recount the latest troubling news from Cyberpunk’s ongoing PR nightmare, and take us into Hitman’s world of assassination and…
By Ronald Gordon If you’ve been a part of the gaming community for a while, surely you’re familiar with characters that are the walking embodiments of shadows, characters that stalk the rich and powerful who believe they are untouchable, characters who snuff out the corrupt politicians who preach the loudest about their ideals. But what…
By Makeda Byfield While Nintendo fans around the world anxiously anticipated the release of mobile Mario Kart, I re-downloaded what could be considered the game’s distant peppy cousin: Beach Buggy Racing. Mario Kart had too many issues downloading onto my phone and I needed a game to keep me occupied on my train rides home…
Hades Wins Five Awards Including Game of the Year at 10th Annual New York Game Awards Games and franchises from around the gaming ecosystem, both nostalgic and new, take home awards New York City, January 26, 2021 – Hosted today by Reggie Fils-Aimé and Harold Goldberg, the New York Videogame Critics Circle celebrated the best…
The results of your fan vote for the best game of the last decade are in! Here are the results (those which have 10 percent or more of the vote). It was a close race among the top three! 1. The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (2016) – 21.2% 2. The…
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