By Jeffrey Mizrahi Not only is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the best Smash Bros. ever made, it is an essential game in every Nintendo Switch owners library. On a surface level, Super Smash Bros. is a party fighting game. Two to eight players load up into a level and duke it out until a winner…
So many things! What do I play with first?! says our writer. By Jeffrey Mizrahi When Destiny 2 launched, it suffered from a severe identity crisis. Bungie was trying to make a game that would appeal equally to a casual Destiny audience, as well as a more heavily engaged one. The results weren’t pretty. The hardcore…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Is it amazing fun or mere glitz that gets in your way? This week, Electronic Arts is holding an Open Beta for players to try out their upcoming World War-inspired II first-person shooter, Battlefield V. I was pleased to hear last week that the game was delayed from mid-October to mid-November for several reasons. Not…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Once again, Logitech held its annual Holiday Preview event in Manhattan, displaying the past, present, and future of their products. This year, Logitech was showing off more than usual as they have purchased the top of the line headset company, Astro Gaming, within the past year. Here are some of my initial…
Writer/intern Jeffrey Mizrahi just came back from E3 as media representing the New York Videogame Critics Circle. Here are his thoughts and musings. By Jeffrey Mizrahi It was thrilling. I was in middle school when I began watching E3 coverage religiously. The last day of classes would often fall on the first day of E3, culminating…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi E3 is here! The single biggest gaming event of the year is upon us and who better to talk to about it than New York Videogame Critic Circle’s founder, Harold Goldberg. Yesterday, we got to chat one on one discussing what it was like to be in attendance at Playstation’s media briefing, what…
By: Jeffrey Mizrahi “Everything is different, boy. Try not to dwell on it.” When Kratos says this to Atreus at the start of God of War, it was obvious this message wasn’t meant only for his son. It was a message from Sony Santa Monica, the developers of the game, to me, the player,…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Playing Call of Duty WWII and Super Mario Odyssey at the same time is very interesting. One game has you grinding endlessly (or just use real money to buy in game currency) at a chance to score a cool costume for your character, while the other encourages you to spend in game…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus doesn’t need cheap jump scares or dimly lit rooms to make it one of the most terrifying games I have ever played. The year is 1961 and the Germans have won the war. The set up for this alternate history, where the Nazis were the first to…
By Jeffrey Mizrahi Playing with my SNES Classic Edition this week taught me two things. First, Super Mario World is a perfect game, and second, videogame manuals used to be ridiculously awesome. Nintendo posted the original manuals for all 21 games included in the little box as PDF’s on their site, and man, these were…
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