As Autumn begins, here’s our New York Videogame Critics Circle update. Call it ‘How We Helped The Underserved During The Spring And Summer.” Our nonprofit has reached out to so many underserved students – despite the pandemic’s surge – that I want to highlight our important initiatives for you, as well as our progress. -Harold…
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Check out what Critics Circle Founder and President Harold Goldberg has to say about everything from new Reggie news to the 11th New York Game Awards to our Rockstar internship, streaming, giveaways – and more.
By Harry Rabinowitz An excellent Roundup this week from the hardworking folks of the Circle. Cheers! Ben Gilbert gives us a break down of the current VR landscape, discussing Google Cardboard, Gear VR, Morpheus, Oculus, and Vive. Ebenezer Samuel reviews Swords & Soldiers II, the simple, colorful, 2D, real-time strategy title for Wii U. In her…
by Harold Goldberg It’s rare, rare as finding a stash of FL diamonds on the grittier streets of the Lower East Side. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a rare game that makes you feel, makes you feel the highs and lows of human emotions within a varied, frighteningly beautiful environment that is at once…
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…
On 9/11, there were no more videogames. On that morning with its molten-steel-bright sun, I stood with two neighbors, director John Waters and actor Tim Guinee, on 6th Avenue and 12th Street. It was just before the towers came down, and the NY1 report, still chilling, was that a small plane, perhaps a Cessna, had…
Mike Snider at USA Today did a fine profile of my new book on Tuesday. I was asked to do a piece for their website. That did not make it in to the package. So here it is now, light and breezy in that USA Today style. Five Things You Don’t Know About All Your…
There is a moment within Undead Nightmare in which everything you know about protagonist John Marston is turned on its head. It was so poignant, I had to write a note about it to Rockstar’s Sam Houser. (Rockstar is the publisher of the downloadable content, which is an addition to the brilliant Red Dead Redemption.)…