NYVGCC Awards tickets will help to fund our ongoing, nonprofit programs for underserved students for 2023, and are on sale here. Tickets cost $40 for General Admission and $75 for Orchestra + After Party (closest to the stage). Microsoft’s Phil Spencer is accept our Legend Award at SVA Theatre. Get tickets before they sell out! By Kimari…
By Harold Goldberg God of War Ragnarök begins with seconds of secret sounds before you see anything. Is it the sound of a snowstorm, the sound of embers in a fire, the chipping away at soft rock? You see the burly Kratos in a cold cave, dutifully making arrows over a fire, cutting the tips…
By Harold Goldberg Update: About 15 hours into Horizon Forbidden West, my PS5 began slowing down to one frame per second. I have no idea why. But I couldn’t leave the game to reboot because I was in the middle of a boss fight. Once I was done, I began to look for a campfire,…
Members of the New York Videogame Critics Circle met Bobby Kent during the Reggie Zoom Fundraiser which we put on earlier in the month. We continued our conversations offline with Bobby and the result is this deep essay, which brings a new meaning to the narrative, characterization and gameplay within Bugsnax. By Bobby Kent Allow…
By Harold Goldberg Everyone loves a parade, and as I played a thrilling new PS5 game from Sony and Insomniac, I thought of the 76 trombones and the “big parade” in the old Broadway show and movie called “The Music Man.” It’s the stunningly lively parade in the air that got me in “Ratchet &…
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