By Harold Goldberg Part of our New York Videogame Critics Circle Level Up Now scholarship program includes poetry written by high school students who have the world’s biggest entertainment medium in mind – along with salient social justice issues. (We will post the winners of the scholarship contest next week.) People of color haven’t had…
It’s all Borderlands 3! After playing two new hours of this humor-filled open world experience, New York Videogame Critics Circle president and editor in chief Harold Goldberg and senior DreamYard intern Kimari Rennis interviewed Borderlands 3 Senior Writer Danny Homan. Danny expounds upon the motivations of those wonderfully insane Calypso Twins, the brilliance and loneliness…
By Kimari Rennis I’m still thinking about what I learned at the recent Game Devs of Color Expo, a supportive environment for game developers and their fans from various backgrounds held each year in Harlem. The GDoC Expo is very young, but it’s helping the community learn and think about games in important ways. (The…
Sly Cooper, Jet Set Radio, Ico! In Part 2 of this New York Videogame Critics Circle podcast, founder Harold Goldberg and Senior DreamYard Intern Kimari Rennis talk to PixelOpus creative director Dominic Robilliard and Art Director Jeff Sangalli about *their artful inspirations, *the compelling new content within Concrete Genie, *how the art style was created…
“It’s just me and the AI politician telling me the untruths I want to hear.” By Harold Goldberg It’s never night in this videogame land, which kind of freaks me out. But I still play within it. I still play The Elder Scrolls: Blades even though the Early Access version is, at its worst,…
Photos by Libe Ackerman, except where noted. Recently, the New York Videogame Critics Circle was thrilled to partner with the American Museum of Natural History. Our first event with the historic, 145 year old museum on Manhattan’s Upper West Side included a spirited panel comprised of Circle members Sherri Smith, Dan Ackerman, Matt Gerardi and…
By Harold Goldberg There was a period that spanned years when Angry Birds was such a wild phenomenon. It was everywhere. Writing a Boys’ Life game column for kids as I did for 10 years, it seemed there were as many letters and emails sent to me about the feisty birds as there were about…
By Harold Goldberg Today, the New York Videogame Critics Circle is proud to announce a new partnership with the American Museum of Natural History, one of the shining gems of New York City. Whether it’s the multimedia within the brand new T. rex exhibition or a classic diorama, the 150-year old museum is a national…
By Harold Goldberg Dubbed Tribeca Immersive, The Tribeca Film Festival’s VR and AR programs are jam-packed with narrative-oriented experience, some with game elements as well. The challenge for those who want to check these out during the April 26 to May 4 window is the sheer number of works placed within a fairly small footprint.…
From my experience, players in Fallout 76 are either complete assholes or very awkward to communicate with. By Kimari Rennis When you fall in love with a franchise, game company, or even a TV show, you eagerly look for the new content that will be produced by that revered source. Feverishly, you crave that series…
