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, it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire for our critics, who had barely just enough time to recover from E3 before being…
By Harold Goldberg Last night at our conference room at The Yard, the Circle played host to long time adventure game creator, Dave Gilbert. The affable Gilbert, who resides in Brooklyn where he toils to make his Wadjet Eye productions, sets all of his narrative-rich games in New York City. That includes Unavowed,…
Hello, Circle people! Jon here. No long-winded intro this time. It’s been a busy week in gaming news, but today’s Roundup is especially good. I loved Matt’s review-in-process approach, and I wish it became the standard in game criticism. I loved Chelsea’s eulogy for Mad Catz. I love Gita’s report on Shard and the tragic…
Contributors/ace interns Donovan Floyd and Jeffrey Mizrahi are deep into playing Mass Effect: Andromeda. Donovan’s logged 40 hours thus far, Jeffrey, a little less. As they play, they’ll debate the high and low points of the game. Away we go! Donovan: I’ll start with the Mass Effect Andromeda’s gameplay -which I think is really fun.…
By Donovan Floyd After four long years in the making, the public finally got its first taste of the much-yearned-for Mass Effect: Andromeda. Well, EA and Origin Access members did. Although I didn’t get much of a chance to indulge in the multiplayer during the 10 hours allotted, I did sink my teeth into the…
Greetings! Jon here, back again with the Circle Roundup. If you haven’t heard, NASA confirmed that it’s discovered seven planets with Earth-like conditions just 40 light-years away from us! Why is that important? Well for one, cosmologists say that water is the foundation of all life, so a planet that has liquid water would be…
By Lucy Ungaro It’s that time of year again, which means that this week The Circle is bringing you massive amounts of E3 coverage, and of course, some indie news as well, because we cover the whole videogame spectrum in these here parts. First, our Steven Petite covered all of the big E3 pressers and reveals for The…
By comparing the culture within western and eastern RPGS, the author argues that plot in role playing games hinges not on one protagonist, but upon a motley crew of characters. by Robert Gordon In the world of role playing games, it’s the ensemble that’s key to plot formation. Though video game characters can be motivated…
by Robert Gordon The author writes about what dialogue really means in role playing games — and what it should mean in the future. The survivor is panicking under the pulse of the pistol, her pistol, set against her own temple. A second ago it was trained on you, but the mission is to talk…
In this final part of the Critics Circle’s week-long series, Mac Walters espouses his views on the Illusive Man. Who is he? How did he come to be? Was his creation really inspired by The Smoking Man on The X-Files? Read on! HG: What is the overarching role of the Illusive Man in the comics?…