By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome back to the Roundup! It’s Critics Circle’s method of gathering up stories from interns and members alike, and giving them a shoutout. This week we’ve got news on a showcase of Apple’s new gaming capabilities, the PS VR2 and how it plays, a review of Fire Emblem: Engage, and…
By Ronald Gordon Hello again and welcome back to another Roundup, the New York Videogame Critic Circle’s look into what’s been going on in the world of Video Games and what our writers have been up to as of recently. Plenty of good things have happened both inside and outside of the Circle, including a…
By Harry Rabinowitz Celebrations all around to you, your family and friends! With plenty of Yuletide carols and Hanukkah songs being sung, we wanted to bring the best and brightest from our esteemed Circle members! Polygon’s Besties, Griffin McElroy, Russ Frushtick, Chris Plante, and Justin McElroy, reunite for one last podcast. This time they talk…
by Harold Goldberg Recently, Polygon’s Colin F. Campbell wrote Piranha Frenzy, a full-length novel that’s a labor or love. Within this taut fiction about what’s it’s like to be a videogame journalist, Campbell offers a motley mix of characters. There’s an older guy/mentor who raises his eyebrows at youthful idiocy tempered with younger folks with…
It’s a rarity that one of our members is asked to curate a museum exhibit. But that’s just what’s happened with Polygon’s Samit Sarkar. He curated and penned the excellent Madden exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. There to talk about the show, and about Madden’s 25 year history, were NFL…
It’s Saturday morning. Outside, the sun over the river is like Kanye’s finest gold. But I’m distracted, looking forward to Tuesday night. I’m looking forward to Tuesday night because we all get together, a community of proud nerds because honorary member Daniel Radosh of the Daily Show is intelligent and funny and droll because former Rockstar…
by Jill Scharr We’re big fans of Penny Arcade’s PAX conventions–they’re known for being friendly, open and inclusive, with panels on diverse topics, everything from sexuality to tabletop games to games journalism. This year, the games journalism panels themselves covered a range of topics, from freelancing to breaking into IGN. Here’s a rundown of the…
Should the Wii U have been given a bad rap for seeming too complex? Or should Nintendo’s spin doctors get the blame? Or should journalists themselves be held accountable? by Harold Goldberg Yesterday at the Polygon launch party in Tribeca, two threads of conversation manifested themselves throughout the night. The first surrounded the seemingly anthropomorphic…
July 31 at 7 p.m., a night that will live in infamy. Or famy, even. We hope you will join your favorite videogame writers for all things games at Brooklyn’s Barcade next Tuesday night. The Barcade is located at 388 Union Avenue. We’ll be there for our first community event for at least three hours.…