By Harold Goldberg Colin Kaepernick is playing football again – in a crazy arcade game that’s fun, punishing and addicting. I was antsy and nervous as I waited for Colin to talk Wild Card Football, waiting at a bar table at 8:45 am in the remodeled video game industry meeting temple, The Figueroa Hotel. Two…
By Ronald Gordon For the last two weeks of October, the talented interns of the Critics Circle had been conducting interviews. Aiming at getting the juicy details of Immortality and how it came about, the various names and faces we talked with were all wonderful people with lots to say on the game. With the…
If you want some deep conversation about games, the industry and more, please check out our recent video series on our YouTube Channel. These are also available as podcasts on SoundCloud, Spotify and elsewhere. Without further adieu, here’s what the New York Videogame Critics Circle has been up to: —Board member Reggie Fils-Aime was interviewed…
By Makeda Byfield Fans of Supergiant Games may notice one voice that pops up in throughout the company’s games. Logan Cunningham brings life to iconic video game characters such as the Narrator in Bastion, The Transistor in Transistor, and Poseidon, The Storyteller and many more in Hades (which won a landmark five New York Game…
by Lucy Ungaro For the second installment of The Circle’s interview series, I spoke with Renee Gittins, an engineer turned game designer and CEO of her own game company, Stumbling Cat. Renee advocates diversity in games, occasionally writes articles discussing issues such as impostor syndrome and fair representation in games, and is currently leading the development on…
by Lucy Ungaro Welcome to the first installment of NYVGCC’s new interview series, in which I interview illustrious game developers based in New York City about their games and ideas. This week, I interviewed James Marion, who recently released the game Peter Panic for iOS. Peter Panic is an adorable and witty collection of fast-paced mini-games, and is also a…
We here at the New York Videogame Critics Circle want to have in-depth, colorful, and really cool conversations with personalities within the gaming industry. For our debut installment of the series we’d like to call GIFT OF GAB, we sat down with the head honcho behind Unwinnable — Stu Horvath, who’s also been the game critic for the…