*Early Bird Discount Tickets Available NOW from Eventbrite! *Emmy-winning “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” writers to host the New York Game Awards. *Our First Woman Legend Award Winner to be revealed soon! Mark your calendars for January 22, 2019 at 8 p.m.! The New York Videogame Critics Circle, a 501(c)3 non-profit group of 40 multicultural journalists, is…
By Isaac Espinosa When a society divided by technology becomes more and more dangerous, how do you decide who to trust or steer away from? 2064 Read Only Memories Integral is an indie graphic adventure game developed by MidBoss and available on Nintendo Switch. (2064 Read Only Memories – minus the Integral – is on…
By Harold Goldberg Last night at our conference room at The Yard, the Circle played host to long time adventure game creator, Dave Gilbert. The affable Gilbert, who resides in Brooklyn where he toils to make his Wadjet Eye productions, sets all of his narrative-rich games in New York City. That includes Unavowed,…
By Harold Goldberg It’s a deep flaw game writers have and it’s a flaw that I have, too. Game journalists don’t really take the time to write about books, certainly not nearly enough. Sure, occasionally a non-fiction tome will incite lemmings in search of hits to outdo each other with praise. But when it comes…
God of War? Monster Hunter? Red Dead 2? Which is or will be your absolute favorite? Today, we’ll have a lively panel at Play NYC MainStage, 311 W. 34th Street, on the Games of the Year released so far — and those coming in the Fall. It’s streamed on Twitch, too. Plus, we’ll talk about our…
By Shane Ferguson Mothergunship is one enigma of a game. Developed and published by Grip Digital (creators of Tower of Guns and Atomic Ninjas) and played on Xbox One X, it’s a unique bullet-hell first-person shoot ’em up – with roguelike features. You are recruited to the “resistance” to save Earth from an alien A.I. Invasion.…
By Ronald Gordon Everyone loves a nice hotel stay from time to time, but what if your hotel had mysteries and secrets beyond your wildest imagination? The Spectrum Retreat is a first-person puzzle game developed by Dan Smith Studios and published by Ripstone Ltd. Here, you are a person named Alex, and you’re trapped within…
By Harold Goldberg Well, we missed the Overwatch finals in NYC, but it was for the greater good — helping people out. On Friday, the NYVGCC held its summer community event with a kaleidoscope of people playing games with everyone from Geek.com’s Jordan Minor to our senior intern Kimari Rennis. We played “Mario Tennis Aces” and “Dead…
By Kimari Rennis Unlike a lot of gamers in today’s day and age, I’m not old enough to say that I’ve grown up playing the Snes or the Sega. Most of my gaming memories from when I was young came from the PlayStation 2. My older brother and I spent a lot of time stockpiling…
By Harold Goldberg After Friday’s summer community event, join us for a panel the following day at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in the Celeste Bartos Forum, 476 5th Avenue! The NEW YORK VIDEOGAME CRITICS CIRCLE will join the library’s big Summer Reading Games Day from 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. for…