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, our critics fall into the wordy embrace of massive, wordy computer RPGs, both new and old. Plus, a new Star Wars game impresses, a new…
By Donovan Floyd The full release of EA’s sequel to Battlefront (2015) is now out, and with that, gamers have full access to everything Battlefront 2 has to offer. Gameplay-wise not much has changed from the Beta. But we now have access to all of the maps and game modes. The main thing I want to…
By Donovan Floyd As an extreme Star Wars fan, it doesn’t take much at all for me to get excited for another addition to the universe. However, after the disaster that is EA’s Star Wars Battlefront, I couldn’t let myself have an extreme fanboy attack over the second edition to EA’s latest franchise, familiarly named Star…
By Shane Ferguson Greetings Circle clan, Shane here again with your Roundup for this week. This quarter is really starting to heat up, with some great announcements and anticipated releases. Personally, I’m looking forward to playing Assassin’s Creed: Origins. I’ve been on a brief hiatus from the series, but Ancient Kemet seems like a great…
May the Fourth be with you, Circle family! Jon here, back with your weekly Roundup and wishing you a wonderful Star Wars Day. This week’s Roundup is an eventful one. Russ Frushtick played Star Wars: Bounty Hunter to commemorate May 4th. Harold Goldberg and Jordan Minor attended the first ever Tribeca Games Festival, a big…
Hello Circle readers! Jon here – with another Roundup. This past week was a busy one. Star Wars Battlefront II (not to be confused with Star Wars: Battlefront II from 2005) was confirmed, Nier: Automata held a livestream commemorating its 1 million copies shipped, and Code Vein was announced. And that was just the…
By Lucy Ungaro Hello, Circle critics, videogamers and scholars, and welcome to the Roundup–Lucy edition. I will be taking up the mantle for these weekly portals into the gaming world. It’s new and improved with a a special mix of cultural topics outside of our Circle. Without further ado, let’s round up! First off, who else…
In this episode of Full Circle we visited the Museum of Modern Art in downtown Manhattan, whose newest exhibit on Integrated Design includes 14 videogames. We also made some (pretty bad) jokes about Electronic Arts’ exclusive deal with Disney to make Star Wars videogames for the next few years, and talked about Polygon’s examination of…