By Harold Goldberg One thing was clear from the start. Our group of students at the Mott Hall III school on the edge of the Bronx’s Crotona Park had the potential to be our best class ever. Earlier in the year, educator Ryan O’Callaghan put the word out that the New York Videogame Critics Circle…
By Imani Brown The amazing Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga mainly tells the story of Star Wars through the years. But here, the movie actors are turned into cute Lego animated characters; for over 45 hours, you play through all nine movies. While this game is based on the movie/episodes that you stream or…
By Makeda Byfield If you don’t already know, Reggie Fils-Aimé is former President and COO of Nintendo of America, an Ivy League graduate from Cornell, and a lauded businessman prior to his work in games. His new autobiography, Disrupting the Game, proves he is even more than that – including being a mentor to Bronx…
By Isaac Espinosa In order to save the world from a dangerous force, you must travel through a realm of puzzles and… virtual reality? Moss: Book II is a VR game for the PlayStation 4 developed by Polyarc; it continues the story of Quill, a little anthropomorphic mouse on her quest to defeat the Arcane,…
By Jeison Liranzo The Kirby franchise recently made a comeback with Kirby and the Forgotten Land, developed by HAL Laboratory and released on March 25, 2022. As in the franchise’s other games, Kirby has the ability to inhale enemies and take their powers, and there’s no spoken dialogue. This installment introduces many new mechanics, though,…
Upon release, we ran this Horizon Forbidden West story. In an effort to show both sides, here is another take on the the Aloy saga. By Kimari Rennis I am a woman with simple tastes when it comes to video games. I need a strong female lead and a fresh, jarring narrative to change my…
By Jacob Robbins Like it or not, we’re living in the era of the bombastic blockbuster AAA game. Mainstream games today pride themselves on overstimulation and are often chocked full of gore and guns. At after playing 30 hours, there’s a palpable sense of exhaustion, a desire to be done. But then the cycle runs…
By Ronald Gordon Three years ago, I went on a trip through FAR: Lone Sails. With the help of the trusty and rusty Okomotive, I traveled through a desolate world in search of some semblance of another living person, or at least I thought I did before I realized the truth: that that wasn’t going…
By Jade Entien If you’re looking for a new favorite game but with little cash to spare, Itch.io is always updating with new indie games daily, each unique in its own way. From horror, visual novels, platformers – many games on Itch have the potential to become more than bottom of the bin gems. They…
Note: Some spoilers lie ahead. By Makeda Byfield My siblings were not pleased with me when I told them I wanted to re-download the Sims mobile game last month. According to them, I “rEtUrN tO tHe SaMe tWo “boring” gAmEs anD bEcomE aBsOluTelY cOnsUmEd wITh tHem.” Ready to ignore their hater-ism, I was about to…
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