By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. This week, our writers are looking inward, whether at the unseen effects of intense gaming on the brain or at the unremembered moments that made them the…
By Harold Goldberg *Generally, people know the shooter genre isn’t my favorite. However, I do like shooters when the writing is stellar (like that in the generally terrific BioShock series). But I’m very much looking forward to this blockbuster/juggernaut due to the writing. That’s partially because Jill Scharr, our awesome former intern, is one of…
Happy New Year! The New York Videogame Critics Circle’s first new feature of 2017 is The Timeline, a curated look at the historic highlights of a selected game. Here, we look at the ups and downs of Destiny from Bungie. By Jeffrey Mizrahi Destiny Announced 4/29/10 In 2010 around the time of Halo Reach’s release,…
by Harold Goldberg What follows is an accurate account of what the Guitar Hero Live event at Manhattan’s Best Buy Theater was like this morning, April 14, 2015. 1) We stand outside in the slightly rainy dampness for a while. I have a problem with this because I’m wearing two knee braces after something happened…