The Roundup: The Circle & Beyond

By Jonathan G. Lee Hello, hello! It’s Jon here again with your weekly Circle Roundup! I hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend. I have some relatives visiting from the old country and my uncle has never had Mediterranean food before, so my Labor Day was spent eating green lentil stew instead of…

The Roundup: The Circle & Beyond

by Lucy Ungaro Welcome, post-GDC world! The industry game conference has come to a close, and strangely, we go on as before. This week, videogames forge ahead and AI takes over the world.  I always thought of GDC as an inclusive, classy space for game developers of all shapes and sizes. Turns out, this isn’t…

The Skinny: Circle Awards Panel

Tomorrow night’s 3rd Annual New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards will begin with a compelling panel at 7:30 p.m. Here’s who will hold court:   Chelsea Stark (Mashable) on the year in Nintendo Evan Narcisse (Kotaku) on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Haiti Jeff Bakalar (CNET/404) on what’s good and bad about sequels Jill…

The Roundup: The Circle Speaks

By: Sarah Awad Kick off 2014 with some diverse and insightful writing about this year’s past, and what’s coming up next… Jeff Bakalar’s 404 Podcast takes us to the future  Unwinnable’s Stu Horvath has the best board games of 2013  Jason Schreier has some news about The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky via Kotaku Mashable’s Chelsea…

The Roundup: GTA V: What Our Critics Are Saying

Call it the Videogame Shot Heard Round the World. The game was everywhere. And when the smoke cleared last week, Grand Theft Auto V had earned a billion dollars in three days. Many of our fine critics had something to worthy say about the latest release from Rockstar Games: Polygon’s Chris Plante detailed the satire…