By Jeison Liranzo During every moment in Life Is Strange: True Colors, I felt fireworks of empathy inside of me. (Life is Strange: True Colors is a graphic adventure video game developed by Deck Nine and published by Square Enix’s Europe, released on September 10, 2021 across all platforms except mobile, with Nintendo Switch still…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. This week, our critics celebrate the completion of Kentucky Route Zero and get lost in the wild enthusiasm of Kingdom Hearts III and the comforting simplicity of…
By Steven Petite Sometimes I feel as if I’m living a lie. At the age of five, I fell in love with video games (blame it on that fictional Italian plumber). My parents didn’t discourage this love, but they did encourage another seemingly more beneficial pastime. Literature. My mother read books to me as a…
by Lucy Ungaro These are my thoughts on the final episode of Life is Strange. All those still planning on playing the game, beware–spoilers abound. Max’s right hand moves, struggling, barely. The camera watches, leering. Her arms and legs? Duct taped to a chair. Her eyes, hollow. Drugged. She’s been drugged. That’s the way Life is Strange…
By Harry Rabinowitz 6 days until the New York Videogame Awards. We’ve got an awesome venue, moonshine, the Downtown Pidgeons and us, the Critics Circle! If you haven’t bought a ticket yet, what are you waiting for?! Anthony John Agnello and Joystiq staff get together for one last Joystiq Stream. I’ll certainly miss these… Ben…
By Harry Rabinowitz Read about last week’s gaming happenings from the best in the East! Russ Frushtick makes his debut on The New York Times with his piece on the 10 player arcade game Killer Queen. Over on Kotaku, Evan Narcisse gave his review of the completely over the top action-spectacle Bayonetta 2. Ebenezer Samuel reviewed…