O New York Videogame Critics Circle foi fundado pelo jornalista de longa data e autor Harold Goldberg. O grupo foi criado primeiramente para defender seus membros, agora trabalha com a comunidade para orientar e distribuir bolsas de estudo para faculdade. O Círculo também mantem painéis e eventos orientados a jogos eletrônicos, bate-papo intensos e fazem anotações ao longo do ano.
Achando que a costa oeste dos Estados Unidos deveria ter sua própria premiação, a NYVCC junto com os grupos CNET, MTV, Giant Bomb entre outros sediaram sua primeira premiação de jogos eletrônicos, New York Game Awards em 2 de fevereiro de 2012. O evento já está em sua sexta edição.
Premiações 2012 A primeira edição ocorreu na Cantor Film Center, e teve apresentação de Ashley Barrett e DarrenKorb com um mash-up das músicas “Build that Wall” e “Setting Sail, Coming Home" que fazem parte da trilha sonora do jogo Bastion.
Categoria Vencedor Ref Manhattan Award for Most NY-Centric Game Crysis 2 Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Game Super Mario 3D Land Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game Bastion A Train Award for Best Mobile/iOS Game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game Portal 2 Off-Broadway Award for Best Indie Game Bastion Statue of Liberty Award for Best Open-World Game Saints Row: The Third Great White Way Award for Best Overall Acting in a Game Portal 2 Algonquin Roundtable Award for Best Book All Your Base Are Belong to Us by Harold Goldberg Mad Men Award for Best Videogame Commercial Long Live Play – Michael Big Apple Award for Best Game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
2013 O evento ocorreu em 11 de fevereiro de 2013 no Pfizer Auditorium no Brooklyn.
Categoria Vencedor Ref Big Apple Award for Best Videogame The Walking Dead Herman Melville Award for Best Videogame Writing The Walking Dead Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Console Game Sound Shapes Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music Journey The A Train Award for Best Mobile/iOS Game The Room The Off Broadway Award for Best Independent Game The Walking Dead The Statue of Liberty Award for Best World Dunwall from Dishonored The Best Acting Melissa Hutchison, The Walking Dead Peter Cooper Locomotive Award for Best Game Machine PS Vita The Central Park Zoo Award for Best Kids Game Unfinished Swan
2014 O evento também sucedeu-se em 11 de fevereiro de 2014 no Pfizer Auditorium no Brooklyn.
Categoria Vencedor Ref Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Central Park Childen’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game Super Mario 3D World Herman Melville Award for Best Writing The Last of Us ‘A’ Train Award for Best Mobile Game Ridiculous Fishing Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game Gone Home Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game Bioshock Infinite Statue of Liberty Award for Best World Grand Theft Auto V Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game Steven Ogg, Trevor, GTA V Big Apple Award for Best Game The Last of Us
2015 O evento ocorreu em 17 de fevereiro de 2015.
Categoria Vencedor Ref Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game Mario Kart 8 Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game Threes Statue of Liberty Award for Best World Far Cry 4 Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game Shovel Knight Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake Grand Theft Auto V Herman Melville Award for Best Writing South Park: The Stick of Truth Ebbets Field Award for Best E-Sports Experience Super Smash Bros. Melee Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game Transistor Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game Trey Parker em South Park: The Stick of Truth Big Apple Award for Best Game Wolfenstein: The New Order
2016 O evento transcorreu em 9 de fevereiro de 2016 na Villain venue no Brooklyn. A premiação contou coma presença de Wyclef Jean e a equipe da Rockstar Games.
Categoria Vencedor Ref Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Herman Melville Award for Best Writing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game Super Mario Maker Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake Rare Replay Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game Rocket League A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game Lara Croft Go Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Game Boxboy! Statue of Liberty Award for Best World The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game Viva Seifert, Her Story Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism Cara Ellison Ebbetts Field Award for Best Esports Team (voto dos fãs) SKT Telecom T1 Andrew Yoon Memorial Legend Award Rockstar Games
2017 A sexta premiação aconteceu em 19 de janeiro de 2017 e foi apresentado pelo comediante Trevor Noah.
Categoria Vencedor Ref Big Apple Award for Game of the Year Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game Mafia III Andrew Yoon Legend Award Richard Garriott Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism David Wolinsky Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best VR Game Superhot A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game Pokémon Go Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game Rich Sommer, Firewatch Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game Inside Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game Thumper Central Park Zoo Award for Best Kids Game Pokémon Go Statue of Liberty Award for Best World Hitman Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD Battery Park Award for Best Handheld Game Severed Fan Vote: The Ebbetts Field Award for Best eSports Team Cloud9
Ver também National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers South by Southwest The Game Awards
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