By Khloe Wilkerson FishGun, available on Steam at no charge, is an incredibly immersive and thrilling underwater adventure game that brings together the excitement of exploration and the thrill of shooting fruit to take back and claim territory that was once yours. The cool premise: The evil fruit has taken over and drained the underwater…
NEW YORK VIDEOGAME CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES 2024 AWARDS DATE AND TICKETING 13th Annual New York Game Awards will take place in person on Tues., Jan. 16, 2024. Tickets on sale now! NEW YORK (Sept. 19, 2023) – The New York Videogame Critics Circle (NYVGCC) today announced the 13th annual New York Game Awards is returning…
By Mario Brito Collado It’s Climate Week, and the streets of Manhattan have seen tens of thousands of protesters. I thought of all this as I pondered a question: how can a videogame transmit the main idea of being an ecology-minded engineer, without enduring all the stressful parts of actually being one in real life? Green…
By Ronald Gordon Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is everything I wanted in a mecha game. There’s power, there’s speed, there’s weight, and there’s weaponry, all compacted into a game with fantastic combat and understandable, clear challenge goals. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, the Mech Action game developed by From Software and…
By William Baker III It wasn’t easy. But I took the editorial challenge of coming up with some excellent and unique puzzle games for your purview. Here’s my list! Viewfinder by Sad Owl Studios: If you’re familiar with Superliminal, you’re sure to have a great time with this gem. Viewfinder is a game about taking…
By Kimari Rennis If you are a big fan of Dungeons & Dragons and have a few campaigns under your belt, whether you’ve watched a few episodes of Critical Role in the background, or you collect dice to show off to your companions, I applaud you. Baldur’s Gate III is the game for you! If…
By Ronald Gordon Sometimes a trip into a magical forest can be an excursion filled with splendor and whimsy. Other times, it will lead you through a horrific menagerie of grim, gruesome, and gross horror stories. Bramble: The Mountain King demonstrates how a pleasant journey can go so terribly awry that you’ll dread ever…
By Karoline Castillo-Troncoso Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live in space? Specifically, have you ever found yourself in an eerie and uncanny environment with nothing breaking the silence but the sound of calls from your crew mates as you traverse through space in Zero-G. Following the franchise’s various successes within the sci-fi…
By Makeda Byfield Confession time: I’m usually not a fan of games that are part of a series. That usually stems from the fact that I don’t game enough, and am therefore, am usually unfamiliar with the background and lore. So imagine my surprise when I enjoyed Pikmin 4! The fourth game in the series…
By Jatin Gundara When looking at the vast universe of video game genres, it seems that for each I have a host of preconceptions and expectations. RPGs should be immersive and captivating, strategy games thought-provoking and engaging, metroidvanias cohesive and logical. However, the most fully formed negative preconception I have about any genre pertains to…