The New York Videogame Critics Circle is proud to present its Andrew Yoon Legend Award to Jade Raymond, co-creator of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, and founder of EA Motive and Ubisoft’s Toronto Studio. She’ll receive our Legend Award at the New York Game Awards ceremony on January 22nd, 2019 at SVA Theatre in Manhattan. Critics…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Playing Call of Duty WWII and Super Mario Odyssey at the same time is very interesting. One game has you grinding endlessly (or just use real money to buy in game currency) at a chance to score a cool costume for your character, while the other encourages you to spend in game…
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 Steven Petite It was too long. Ubisoft’s E3 conference opened with a lengthy and perplexing dance number to unveil the latest iteration of Just Dance. The scene was furnished with a dancing lion, giraffe, and panda bear, and for a moment, I thought I had accidentally redirected by browser to the latest Miley Cyrus…
By Harry Rabinowitz Judging from this week’s Roundup, it looks like I’ll be picking up The Witcher 3 some time soon… Jeff Bakalar is joined by Kevin VanOrd (Gamespot) to discuss The Witcher 3 and it’s GOTY murmurings. Harold Goldberg writes his (largely favorable) thoughts on The Witcher 3, mid-way through his playthrough. It’s a…
by Harold Goldberg Should a videogame music composer write a book about the trade that’s completely inside baseball? Or should it be more readable, a tome that appeals to the general public as well as to musicians. If it’s the latter, the writer walks a dangerous tightrope. He or she risks alienating the core with…