By Danny Castillo Recently, New York University’s Game Center released a Twitch video that shows off students’ 2020 thesis games. As I watched a long stream of the showcase by these designers, the only thing that came to my mind was “this will take me more than a week to finish because it’s a long…
By Shane Ferguson Don’t be fooled by Sea of Thieves’ charm. Underneath its child-like, cartoon surface is an intricate team strategy game. Within this first-person action adventure game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios, players explore the online open-world in a pirate ship, embark on quests, collect loot and engage in combat. But the…
By Donovan Floyd As an extreme Star Wars fan, it doesn’t take much at all for me to get excited for another addition to the universe. However, after the disaster that is EA’s Star Wars Battlefront, I couldn’t let myself have an extreme fanboy attack over the second edition to EA’s latest franchise, familiarly named Star…
By Kimari Rennis It’s one thing to write about someone in The Roundup, and it’s another thing when you get to meet that person afterward. For me, the feeling is strange yet whimsical. One of my projects as an intern for the NYVGCC is to read the recent reviews, articles, and posts written by the…
By Harold Goldberg On Saturday, I took an umbrella to the heavy rain and traveled to NYU’s Game Center where a large group of college seniors were celebrating their imminent graduations and the occasionally dismal reality that is the real world. But in a small room farther away from the festivities, about 15 high school…
By Kimari Rennis Finally! A new Lego game that isn’t based on a movie or show. Ages 4 to 99 can enjoy hundreds of dollars worth of Legos without the pain of losing or stepping on them. Lego Worlds is a sandbox exploration game where you can build, create and marvel at your own work.…
By Donovan Floyd After four long years in the making, the public finally got its first taste of the much-yearned-for Mass Effect: Andromeda. Well, EA and Origin Access members did. Although I didn’t get much of a chance to indulge in the multiplayer during the 10 hours allotted, I did sink my teeth into the…
by Harold Goldberg What follows is an accurate account of what the Guitar Hero Live event at Manhattan’s Best Buy Theater was like this morning, April 14, 2015. 1) We stand outside in the slightly rainy dampness for a while. I have a problem with this because I’m wearing two knee braces after something happened…
By Harold Goldberg For a journalist like me, it was pre-launch chaos. While Microsoft and Edelman, their long-time PR agency, promises nothing like this will happen to consumers, the following is what happened to me when reviewing the Xbox One. Full of optimism, I picked up the Xbox One last week at a demo in…
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