By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome back to the Roundup! It’s the Critics Circle’s bi-weekly way of gathering up stories from interns and members alike to give them a shoutout! Whilst I was hopping around from game to game, I managed to write up a review of ULTRAKILL, one of the few shooters I come…
By Ronald Gordon Hello once again and Welcome Back to the Roundup! It’s the Critics Circle’s chance to gather up seme selected stories from our various members and give them each a shoutout for their hard work. This week we’ve got articles that the Circle Members have published on their respective sites, as well as…
By Ronald Gordon Being a guerrilla fighting against a dictatorship isn’t the most rewarding line of work. In truth, your only rewards are constant risks to your health and safety and most likely a sharp reduction in the number of friends and family you have. But when you’re an orphan plucked off the streets and…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. In this installment, our writers run down all the deets of Microsoft’s next-gen strategy and tell us why the Xbox Series S might be the real star of…
By Matt Gerardi Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. In this installment, our writers head to samurai-era Japan for the PlayStation 4’s swan song, get a glimpse at Ubisoft’s future lineup, get lost in the surreal world…
By Danny Castillo It wasn’t an in-person experience this year. Last week’s Games for Change 2020 festival, under the guidance of Susanna Pollack, became an online experience due to the coronavirus. And the result was impressive. These three days of talks and games with a message proved not only that there are some great…
By Isaac Espinosa Recently, Ubisoft and the Games for Change organization presented a “Keys to Learn” event in New York City. During these wonderful hours, I was able to learn about how gaming has been – and continues to be used – as a platform to teach people about education and even social justice. And…
By Ronald Gordon It’s back! In Far Cry New Dawn, the post apocalypse returns in a world where “power is the only currency.” This action-adventure/first person shooter from Ubisoft Montreal takes place after the events of last year’s Far Cry 5 in a place called Hope County, a lovely, bucolic area that managed to survive…
By Harold Goldberg To me, Ubisoft’s Far Cry series can be compelling because each edition has a demented genius somewhat inspired by the evil, omniscient Green Beret Col. Walter E. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” The Kurtz character is a riff on the ivory trader of the same last name from Joseph Conrad’s…
By Shane Ferguson Before I even booted up the PS4 version of South Park: The Fractured But Whole, I couldn’t help but reminisce about the pleasant surprise which was the South Park: The Stick of Truth. I’ve never experienced anything quite like it. I’ve never literally laughed out loud that much playing any videogame. It felt…