It’s Samit! Polygon’s ace senior reporter Samit Sarkar will moderate our Games of the Year panel at the New York Game Awards on 1/24. The discussion will kick off the big Pre-Show, which along with the full ceremony will be streamed on Twitch. Joining Samit will be CNET’s Dan Ackerman, Tom’s Guide’s Sherri Smith and Geek.com’s…
By Harold Goldberg This past Saturday, the New York Videogame Critics Circle partnered with the New York Public Library for its International Games Day event. Our lively panel discussion took place at the Celeste Bartos Forum, the grand Beaux Arts space with its 30-foot saucer dome, housed in the library’s main branch on 42nd Street.…
By Harold Goldberg When the New York Videogame Critics Circle began about seven years ago, there really wasn’t much in Manhattan regarding game events. Kill Screen had a paid event, mainly for industry people. NYU’s Game Center began doing some great panels, which continue to this day. And Playcrafting was just a meetup. Thankfully, we’ve…
Here’s a large grouping of photos via ace photographer Ira Pfeffer from last Thursday night’s New York Game Awards, which were shown on Twitch to 50,000 viewers. We’ll try to publish more photos in the coming days.
Hello, Circle members! Jon here speaking to you from the spooky, ethereal glow of my desktop monitoooooor! This week’s Roundup is brought to you by Halloween! I hope you guys have been celebrating by playing scary games. I’ve been streaming my Twitch playthrough of Alien: Isolation on Hard for the past week! It’s a…
By Jonathan G. Lee Hello! It’s Jon again with your Circle Roundup. Today’s Roundup is dedicated to Doubleagent, the world’s first and only neutral level 100 player in World of Warcraft. Last week, Doubleagent officially entered the World of Warcraft: Legion expansion by dinging to level 101. Doubleagent’s story is a shining example of the larger…
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