New York Game Awards and GG! Fest ticket (which includes the big, Supergiant Unplugged live concert) are now available! Get them before they sell out! We’re honored to announce that the Supergiant Unplugged live concert featuring Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett will close Day One of our two-day 15th Awards festival on 1/17/26. But today,…
As we head into our landmark 15th New York Game Awards event in January, we are fondly remembering the lights of our first decade and a half. Throughout the years at the New York Game Awards, we’ve had many opening acts give their all to start the Awards off with a bang. In remembering the…
As we continue to honor our 15-year legacy, we flash back to 2011’s Game of the Year, and its presenter, Daniel Radosh from The Daily Show. Comedy from The Daily Show has been with us since Awards One, and it started with journalist-turned-comedy writer Radosh. Our first ever Awards show may have used PowerPoint slideshow,…
By Ronald Gordon As we prepare for our 15th Anniversary, we’re humbled to realize that we’ve had a fantastic run of a decade and a half since our first New York Game Awards. Since then, the Critics Circle has grown from a small writer’s group into a thriving nonprofit hub for creativity and connection within…
We missed some great games during the year. In this ongoing feature, we look back at offerings we finally got a chance to review. By Ronald Gordon I never thought that a game with a cutesy, playful exterior could pinch me as hard as a crab’s crusher claw, yet here I am having died several…
By: Karila-Monique Warner When I first picked up AI: The Somnium Files: The Nirvana Initiative by Spike Chunsoft for my Nintendo Switch, I had not been familiar with the series. In fact, my friend Geneva was the one who told me it was the sequel that I purchased when she saw me playing the game.…
By Sarah Granoff In the final days of the last millennium, I sat in the playroom of my childhood home in front of a beige brick of a computer. A tinny combination of fairground organ music, laughter, and delighted screams blared from the speakers on the windowsill. I was playing one of my favorite games,…
by Jade Entien While summer is almost over, I spent a lot of that time writing about the glamorous event that was Flame Con 2023. It’s hosted by Geeksout, a non-profit with the mission of “rallying, empowering, and promoting the queer geek community.” Flame Con was a two-day weekend soiree, but I was only able…