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Tag Archives: mario kart

Community Event: NYVGCC Shined At The Excellent Henry Street Settlement This Weekend!

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…

September 9, 2024 in Community Events.

The Essay: Our Newest Writer Has Always Loved Technology. And They’re Making An Impact With It!

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,…

August 29, 2024 in The Essay.

The Insight: Beach Buggy Racing Was Great For My Subway Rides To School. But Was No Mario Kart.

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…

February 2, 2021 in The Insight.

The Insight: Words About Games From Smart Girls At A Bronx Homeless Shelter

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.…

September 16, 2020 in The Insight.

The Roundup: Prey, Google Buys Owlchemy, Square Enix Drops IO Interactive, Bud Farm: Grass Roots

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…

May 12, 2017 in The Roundup.
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