By Harold Goldberg This past Saturday, hundreds attended our awesome NYVGCC booth in tandem with the Henry Street Settlement’s super convivial community event. At Sol Lain Park, we gave away everything from stickers to a brand new iPad. Hundreds stopped by our booth during the day to learn about our Playing With Purpose programs and…
By Aeth Finch Everyone has a question running around in their minds every day, sometimes two questions. Actually, I have two questions. The questions I have are: 1) How am I going to describe my favorite game, especially on a nearly empty Google Doc, and 2) How does someone make a big impact on, well,…
By Makeda Byfield While Nintendo fans around the world anxiously anticipated the release of mobile Mario Kart, I re-downloaded what could be considered the game’s distant peppy cousin: Beach Buggy Racing. Mario Kart had too many issues downloading onto my phone and I needed a game to keep me occupied on my train rides home…
This is Part III in our series about the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s nonprofit mentoring work in homeless shelters. By Harold Goldberg Recently, I wrote about the challenges and joys of working with young people in Bronx shelters. Over the summer, the Circle worked tween and younger girls during the time of the pandemic.…
Hey, gang! Jon here, bringing you this week’s Circle Roundup. This week’s big release was Prey. I’m 20 hours in and this is my GOTY so far, and I say this as someone who completely dismissed this title after seeing the first trailer. I wrote it off as yet another derivative sci-fi horror game set…