By Ronald Gordon It’s back! In Far Cry New Dawn, the post apocalypse returns in a world where “power is the only currency.” This action-adventure/first person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal takes place after the events of last year’s Far Cry 5 in a place called Hope County, a lovely, bucolic area that managed to survive…
By Kimari Rennis Unlike a lot of gamers in today’s day and age, I’m not old enough to say that I’ve grown up playing the Snes or the Sega. Most of my gaming memories from when I was young came from the PlayStation 2. My older brother and I spent a lot of time stockpiling…
By Harold Goldberg Kimari Rennis and Ronald Gordon, two Circle interns from our partnership with the DreamYard Prep School, attended Sony’s game demo event at the PlayStation Theater last week. They seemed to like “Concrete Genie” and “Dreams,” MediaMolecule’s next game, the best. Both show wondrous artwork, the former with animated pen and ink beasts…
By Desiree Bonilla Losing things is part of being human, but did you ever wonder where those missing items go? I lost my headphones once, and I remember being really frustrated because I had no way to listen to music. I spent all day looking around for them. Maybe my headphones ended up in a…
By Ronald Gordon Eric Jacobus is an independent action star and one of my favorite people in the movie martial arts community. He’s made countless projects on his own that are way better than what you would see in today’s movies. Recently, he was the choreographer for Kratos’ fight scenes in the new God of…
By Kimari Rennis Surprisingly, I have never had a taste for any form of anime. Whenever I would try to watch it or play games based on animes, my attention would slip away like a stick of butter in a wet hand. But Persona 5 is a game that kept both my ears and…
By Desiree Bonilla I remember playing pinball at the arcade here in New York. I remember being really excited to play the pinball machine because of how the lights would glow up and the sound of the flipper hitting the ball felt so real. This was a good experience because I remember being really overjoyed…
By Harold Goldberg To me, Ubisoft’s Far Cry series can be compelling because each edition has a demented genius somewhat inspired by the evil, omniscient Green Beret Col. Walter E. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” The Kurtz character is a riff on the ivory trader of the same last name from Joseph Conrad’s…
By Harold Goldberg It’s the rare game with a penchant for literary works, conceits and pretensions. “Where The Water Tastes Like Wine,” released today on Steam for PC, takes place as a road trip by foot, by car and on the rails during the Great Depression. It has a group of generally unknown actors doing voice work, with…
By Harold Goldberg You are alone. The wind blows hauntingly, endlessly past you, at you and along the great plains. The landscape is like Big Sky country, far, wide and vast. Black, swirling clouds evoke a foreboding feeling of menace. You are Wander and you exist as part of an infinite nature that is more…