The Insight: Why Escape Academy Is Better Than Real Life Escape Rooms

By Valeisha Jackson Ever since I was a kid, escape rooms have always been my favorite activity to participate in with my family. When it was brought to my attention that there is a game with escape rooms, that caught my attention immediately. In real life, escape rooms don’t usually have a deep fictional story…

The Roundup: A New Kind Of VR Escape Room, NYU’s Failed VR Experiment, The Story Behind Intel’s CPU Code Names, And More!

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 recount their run-ins with some interesting VR experiments, introduce us to Amazon’s first big videogame release, and get the skinny on all those…