By Harold Goldberg This column is Part II in our New York Videogame Critics Circle series of newsworthy updates regarding our nonprofit arts education mentoring and scholarship activities. Many of you know that we have had an ongoing partnership with the Bronx’s excellent DreamYard Project. In their 25-year history, we are the Obama-lauded nonprofit’s longest…
By Harold Goldberg During the course of the next few weeks, I’ll have some stories to tell you. I want to detail the latest work of the New York Videogame Critics Circle in underserved communities such as the Bronx and the Lower East Side during the pandemic. First, you may know that the Circle produced…
By Harold Goldberg Yesterday at the DreamYard Project’s Bx Start game center, New York Videogame Critics Circle Board member Reggie Fils-Aimé spoke about his five keys to success to students from five Bronx schools. The former Nintendo of America president enthralled the students with meaningful stories garnered from his years at many corporate entities, including…
By Harold Goldberg Yesterday, members of the New York Videogame Critics Circle recorded a tribute video to former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé, who’ll receive our Andrew Yoon Legend Award at the New York Game Awards on January 21, 2020. I watched as three senior interns from the Bronx recalled the moments when Reggie…
By Harold Goldberg We have a variety of ways to give back at the New York Videogame Critics Circle. And, as a multicultural arts education-oriented nonprofit organization, we continually look to fostering creativity in others when we plan our work. Our yearly scholarship contest, for instance, focuses upon game narrative. Before we announce the winners,…
By Harold Goldberg It’s been many years in the making. But yesterday in a spacious, new classroom in the Bronx, the New York Videogame Critics Circle and The DreamYard Project began a daily journalism course for underserved high school students. The DreamYard created this artful, warm temporary space while a larger Bronx game center…
Harold Goldberg, author, journalist and New York Videogame Critics Circle founder, will speak at the Games for Changes Festival this Thursday, June 28th at 3:15 p.m. The topic is “When Journalists Educate With Games: How and Why the New York Videogame Critics Circle Mentors Students and Older Adults.” During his talk, which will include a…
By Harold Goldberg Today, I’m proud to announce that the New York Videogame Critics Circle is an officially recognized non-profit organization. It’s been a long road. Just as we’ve helped many in the community along the way, many have helped us. But this is just the beginning. It was six years ago that a good friend penned…
By Harold Goldberg While I think it’s a real honor to go to and cover the Game Developers Conference, I found one bothersome character trait coming through in personalities who led almost all of the education and narrative-oriented talks I was privileged enough to attend. It’s too much ego. One of the tenets of the…
By Harold Goldberg This past Saturday, the New York Videogame Critics Circle partnered with the New York Public Library for its International Games Day event. Our lively panel discussion took place at the Celeste Bartos Forum, the grand Beaux Arts space with its 30-foot saucer dome, housed in the library’s main branch on 42nd Street.…