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…
By Harold Goldberg I’m really thrilled to present our first New York Videogame Critics Circle Podcast. It’s got a Halloween theme. How did this happen? After one of our recent panels, CNET’s Dan Ackerman said, “This was a lot of fun. Why don’t we do a podcast?” Sherri Smith, who also was present for that…
By Harold Goldberg Most of the time, it’s great to welcome a new Assassin’s Creed game into my console – because of the its often compelling mix of history with fiction. Here’s what I saw when I went hands on with Assassin’s Creed: Origins. First up was a video that set up the demo. It…
By Harold Goldberg Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to share meals with Guerrilla Games’ Herman Hulst three times. Each time, the managing director of Guerrilla said that Horizon: Zero Dawn, the studio’s lurid, optimistic twist on post-apocalyptic science fiction, would include a narrative that’s so much better than those in his…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi It’s been out for a while. But I remember it well. Putting on The Dark Knight’s cowl in the opening sequence of Batman Arkham VR is nice and kitschy. But the real excitement and magic of virtual reality came to life when I was in the Batcave, playing with all of Batman’s…