By Khloe Wilkerson If you’ve ever wanted to travel back in time, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will make your fantasies come true. Here, as an interactive participant, you’re witness to the history of one of the weirdest, most distinctive game creators ever. With a love for llamas, sheep, and shooters, England’s Jeff Minter became…
By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome back to the Roundup! It’s the column in which we give a blast to our talented interns and Circle members for their amazing articles. Winter is winding down and with this new Spring season comes news of upcoming games on the horizon. This time around we’ve got articles on…
By Khloe Wilkerson Nearly 20 percent of high school students report serious thoughts regarding suicide. Silent Hill: The Short Message, Konami’s and Hexadrive’s survival horror freebie for PS5, is based on this fact. The Short Message starts with the main protagonist Anita, a teenager, who says, “The strongest animals don’t form groups; they act alone,…
The New York Game Awards will be held on 1/23/24 at SVA Theatre in Manhattan. Get your tickets here. Note: we’re almost out of VIP tickets. So get them now. One of our best events of the year (beyond our NY Game Awards) happened just over a week ago. It was our New York Videogame Critics Circle…
By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome once again to The Roundup! It’s where we gather up articles from members and interns alike to give them a blast. This particular column has been a long time coming and there’s been plenty of news of events while you’ve all been waiting. I got the chance to go…
By Khloe Wilkerson Get ready to swing into action with Spider-Man 2, the highly anticipated Insomniac Games sequel that takes the superhero gaming experience to new heights! In Spider-Man 2, available on PS5, you can even fly through the city with wings, battle iconic villains, and uncover an epic storyline. Spider-Man’s eagerness to help save…
By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome once again to the Roundup, an article made to gather stories from Members and Interns alike to give them a blast! This column was in the works for quite some time, and plenty of new things have happened while I was writing it. Not only have there been new…
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…