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N'Gai Croal and Andre Vrignaud have seen the future of video games. They don't want you to be scared even though things are about to be very different. More »
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We're never going to know what the 10 best video games of all time are. But we sure can try. More »
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What would you expect to be paid to write a video game script? $100,000? Maybe you'd get that a few years ago, but the rate is now more between $10,000 to $20,000, writes The New York Observer. More »
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Reporter N'Gai Croal sparked a debate when he commented a year ago about his gut reactions to the racial dynamics of the first Resident Evil 5 trailer. Recently, he and the game's producer met. More »
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E3's just around the corner and that means it's time for a little Bonus Round round table. More »
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Friday will be popular gaming pundit N'Gai Croal's last day at Newsweek. The well-known game journalist took a buyout from the magazine publisher and plans to move more toward the development side of gaming. More »
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If you're going to be at the New York Comic Con later this week, you might want to check out the panel hosted by Newsweek's N'Gai Croal and MTV's Stephen Totilo. More »
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N'Gai Croal of Newsweek's Level Up takes us on a tour of the hipper-than-thou launch parties Rockstar threw to kick off GTA IV over the past two weeks. Billed as "a rare series of intimate events representing the eclectic musical soundtrack," they were really a big meet-n-greet pairing gaming writers with artists and other Rockstar types. More »
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One of the numerous panel discussions at GDC last month did things a little bit differently, setting up a panel of video game journalists, lead by Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, to answer some of the questions game industry professionals have for those that write about them and their work. The panel consisted of 1UP's Garnett Lee, MTV's Stephen Totilo, Game Informer's Andy McNamara, Geoff Keighly of GameTrailers.tv, and our very own Brian Crecente. More »
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What do you get when you take some of the most well-spoken writers in the gaming press and throw them into a round table discussion on the year in video games? You get Slate Magazine's first annual Gaming Club, which assembles Slate's Chris Suellentrop, Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, Seth Schiesel of the New York Times, and MTV's Stephen Totilo to discuss the video games that made 2007 the "best year ever for video games." They talk about the finer points of BioShock - the Citizen Kane of video games - versus Tetris, the joys of Desktop Tower Defense, the massive growth in the handheld gaming segment, and the future of gaming as we know it. Through twelve pages of back and forth and one podcast the gaming intelligentsia manage to cover the entire year and then some, and it is a fascinating read if you've got the time and vocabulary and cognitive power to keep up. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333965&view=rss&microfeed=true Man, I was pretty far off base with the pronunciation of Newsweek's N'Gai Croal's name. Honestly I cannot tell you exactly how I was pronouncing it. I used to just vaguely mumble something while making the international sign for dreadlocks and hoped for the best. While Croal loses points for both using the royal 'we' and not namedropping me, he makes it up in the end for referencing the cartoon that taught me everything I ever needed to know. Go Joe! More »
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I think that Microsoft employees want to wear the dreads—betting Newsweek's N'Gai Croal as an excuse to try out the look with a solid out if Johnny Depp dapper isn't the result. Because Xbox Director of Technical Strategy Andre Vrignaud just made another bet, wagering N'Gai that Sony would create a new $399 SKU by November. His prediction: More »
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I wrote up my impressions for Killzone 2, but never really got a chance to talk about the party that surrounded the trailer's Tuesday night unveiling. More »
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Hot on the heels of Activision announcing that the next Call of Duty game would make its public debut this weekend, came Newsweek tech editor N'Gai Croal's bilious reaction to the game. That is, the game's title. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=255363&view=rss&microfeed=true It is, I would think, no big secret that MTV's Stephen Totilo and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal are two of my favorite gaming writers. (Clive Thompson would be the third, in my trinity of game writers)So N'Gai's latest feature over on his Newsweek blog is for me, quite a thing to behold. In Vs. Mode Totilo and N'Gai take one another to task over their feelings on God of War 2.I'll summarize, poorly, their takes on the game here, but you really, really owe it to yourself to go over there and read the whole thing because it's the sort of game critiquing that you will almost never find.Totilo comes down on the side of liking God of War 2 but not really being blown away with it. It is a marvel of game creation, he argues, but it's also very much more of the same. And not just because it's a sequel that uses some of the same sorts of setting and themes, but because the game, like its predecessor, uses "level design to define a character's personality", the personalilty of Kratos. And the sequel relies heavily on this same sort of trick. More »
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279 days ago, give or take a few hours, J Allard should have appeared on stage at Microsoft's 2006 E3 press conference wearing a dreadlock wig. He should have done this after losing a particularly bad bet to Newsweek's N'Gai Croal. More »
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Joseph Olin is about to open up the discussion between Sony's Phil Harrison and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, whom he refers to as "blogger extraordinaire". I'll be doing my best to keep up with the liveblogging. More »
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Newsweek's N'Gai Croal spent the weekend hanging out in Miami checking out the Electronic Arts affair leading up to this year's Super Bowl. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=234367&view=rss&microfeed=true Last week Newsweek's N'Gai Croal spoke with Gamehead's Geoff Keighley about his Internet-only show Bonus Round. The three party Q&A is worth a read if you've ever seen or read anything Keighley has done, which is almost 100 percent likely. GameTrailers sent N'Gai this trailer for their upcoming show which has Sierra Online president Ed Zobrist, Gamefly co-founder Sean Spector, and Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter all talking next-gen game pricing. Brian Crecente More »
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N'Gai Croal, that lucky bastard from Newsweek, got a chance to hang-out with Will Wright backstage prior to the developer's appearance on the Colbert Report. More »
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In part two of his interview with EA CEO Larry Probst, N'Gai Croal gets the man to dish on the Playstation Portable and what it would take to get Electronic Arts to start developing original titles for it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=218413&view=rss&microfeed=true You gotta love, and I mean fucking love, when a journalist freaks out an interviewee in the first few minutes of an interview and then lectures the person on why their question isn't outlandish at all. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=218398&view=rss&microfeed=true Newsweeks' N'Gai Croal has a fascinating interview up with David Jaffe about Sony's version of Xbox Live Arcade, called (oh, so poetically), e-Distribution Initiative or eDI. More »
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