By Khloe Wilkerson FishGun, available on Steam at no charge, is an incredibly immersive and thrilling underwater adventure game that brings together the excitement of exploration and the thrill of shooting fruit to take back and claim territory that was once yours. The cool premise: The evil fruit has taken over and drained the underwater…
By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome once again to the Roundup, where the Circle’s Interns and Members are highlighted for their excellent work. The summer is heating up, and while I’m trying my best not to melt in the sun, I’ve also been finding it hard to not think about the game releases to come…
By Khloe Wilkerson Night School Studio’s Oxenfree II: Lost Signals is a spooky, science-fiction psychological drama. It’s also a horror-tinged game about living on the edge, both literally and figuratively. Both Oxenfree I and II became immediate favorites of mine. Oxenfree I follows a group of teenagers on the verge of maturity as they battle…
Hello and welcome back to the Roundup! It’s where the Circle researches stories from friendly faces, members and interns to give them a blast! This week we’ve got some great news, including a new addition to the Circle’s Board of Directors, a Valedictorian Graduation speech, an interview with Colin Kaepernick, and so much more! First,…
By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome once again to the Roundup! An entire article dedicated to gathering up stories inside and outside the Circle to give them a boost. Over the weekend, I had the chance to go to one of the first NYC-hosted gaming events revolving around Minecraft and how it can be used…
By Khloe Wilkerson Try…Not…To…DIE! Outer Terror, a horror-oriented roguelike game produced by Salt Pixel and released by VoxPop Games, will put you to the ultimate test. The game has everything creepy, from an oozing eyeball to scarlet blood marks on the car’s window. Here, you must survive being immersed in five stories inspired by comic…
By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome back to the Roundup! It’s the Critics Circle’s bi-weekly way of gathering up stories from interns and members alike to give them a shoutout! Whilst I was hopping around from game to game, I managed to write up a review of ULTRAKILL, one of the few shooters I come…
By Khloe Wilkerson A wise person once said, “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood,” and Odencat’s Meg’s Monster is a perfect example of that wisdom. While it’s called a JRPG, I’d suggest that Meg’s Monster isn’t that at all, but rather a game that straddles the adventure and…
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…
How do you create Immortality? In Part 3 of our Halloween Week deep dive into the game Immortality, our awesome Bronx intern Khloe Wilkerson interviews the one and only programmer for Half Mermaid, Connor Carson. Connor, coincidently, was once an excellent intern for the New York Videogame Critics Circle herself, and she speaks about her…