By Kimari Rennis Greetings, fellow Circle members! I am Kimari Rennis, and I will be delivering this week’s Roundup. There’s a lot of Mario in the air this week! That’s because Super Mario Odyssey seems to be getting the best reviews of any Mario game – ever. Plus, it’s Halloween-time. There’s just so much going…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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