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. In this installment, our writers look at the evolving landscapes of two genres that couldn’t possibly be more different: battle royale shooters and newspaper word games.…
Hello, Circle friends! Jon here, with my last Circle Roundup for a while. J-school is amazing but very, very time consuming, so I’ll be stepping down from my Roundup duties. But it looks like I’ll be going out with a bang! A lot has happened this week! Age of Empires 4 and Biomutant were…
By Harold Goldberg Last week, when Blizzard came to town to promote Overwatch and the game’s first anniversary, I was thrilled. As a seasoned critic, I actually can’t remember when Blizzard was last in the city to do a dog and pony show for journalists. Almost certainly, they haven’t been in town in this way…
Goodbye, Circle family. This will be my last Roundup because I am quitting: I got an offer to pursue my dream as a guinea pig farmer. Dan Stemkoski (the StarCraft caster better known as Artosis) and I will be going into business together and taking the guinea pig industry by storm. The truth is, we…
Hello, friends and members of the Circle! It’s Jon again, back with your weekly Roundup and taking some time to honor International Women’s Day. Women have been involved in videogames from the beginning of the industry. In fact, if it wasn’t for one profoundly intelligent woman, videogames may not even exist! Ada Lovelace is often…
By Jorge Jimenez There they were, these generally unsung heroes of videogames. The Maestros of Video Games Panel at PAX East brought together some truly talented videogame composers. During the course of the panel, they explained the process of music in games along with useful advice for breaking into the scene. Emily Reese (Level With…
BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Cheshire, England – Walking through the greenest of forests in Tarpoley, a rural town between Liverpool and Manchester, I pass daffodils and bees and newly unfolding ferns. I muck about the ruins of what may have been a cook house, and a singing blackbird flies out of a broken window. It’s the…
It was all the common words I could think of: awesome, deep, exciting, thrilling even. Cliches, yes. But they were also words that resonated. If you eschewed most of the game demos as I did (heck, you’ll see them all at E3), the 25th Game Developers Conference in San Francisco was the most important to…