Kimari is covering GDC for the Circle. This is Part Two of her coverage there. By Kimari Rennis Day 1 – Mar 18 6:00 PM PST After a long day of touring San Francisco with the school, the NYU Game Center hosted an outdoor Alumni and Student Event, where I enjoyed the company of my…
By Ronald Gordon I used to enjoy running. I loved running fast and dashing around obstacles in my younger years, before the pandemic shut me and everyone else in their homes, making me adapt to an indoor lifestyle. Now that I’m free to roam around more, I want to improve myself physically, and I needed…
By Ronald Gordon Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation 5 came out last week. Of course, Sony had to do something big to announce its release. Taking over a significant part of Brooklyn’s Jay Street stretch, Sony set up a Spider-Man themed Scavenger Hunt for those excited to see the game. Five locations were chosen and…
By Ronald Gordon Fortnite is doing a lot to improve its reception and player base beyond what is normally expected through Battle Royale. Aside from what’s known already, such as skins from Peter Griffin and Solid Snake coming to the game, Fortnite demoed three new modes here in NYC that are all separate games in…
As the year winds down, we are looking at some of the great games we missed. We thought Resident Evil 4 Remake is the perfect story for the Halloween season. By Ronald Gordon Game remakes used to be a little hit or miss. Yet recently they’ve begun to vastly improve on the experience of the…
By Ronald Gordon Rhythm games come in all shapes and sizes, but surprisingly few games manage to incorporate rhythm as well as Hi-Fi Rush does. Its environment is entirely infused with the music you hear and vibe to. So you’ll have little trouble both fighting and moving to the beat, as you whack enemies with…
By Ronald Gordon Once again, Coffee Talk has shown me that a simple conversation over a hot drink can lead to many friendships and many revelations. I never would’ve thought that watching fantastical creatures interact with each other would make me as excited as it does, but here I am gushing over fictional characters again. …
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 Harold Goldberg It’s time. For years now, we’ve wanted to expand the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s educational outreach program about Journalism in Games into Brooklyn. While much of our mentoring work is done in the Bronx, some has been done in Lower Manhattan. But we want to expand in Brooklyn with the right…
By Serenity Cruz Hello, my name is Serenity, the 14-year-old latest arrival to the New York Videogame Critics Circle. I love to draw what comes to mind, yet most of my drawings always have to do with video games. From the small Megaman doodles to the Mudkip and Slowking drawings on almost every card stock…
