Articles by Joshua Ostroff
Almost in the Machine
PlayStation brings VR into the real world
PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2016
I'm in the bat cave. Like really in the bat cave. It's wetter than I imagined down here below Wayne Manor, with a pair of waterfalls tumbli...
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Wii U
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2016
Are there any game franchises as meta as Paper Mario? The Super Mario spinoff launched back in 2000 by literally splitting the difference b...
Forza Horizon 3
Xbox One, Windows
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2016
Tracks are the racing genre's primary game design feature, but whether playing an unrealistic "arcade" racer like Mario Kart or a simulator...
Zen and the Art of Procedural Generation
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2016
No Man's Sky was supposed to be the game of the summer. The rabidly anticipated outer-space sandbox from British indie Hello Games promised...
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
PS4, XB1, PC
PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2016
The Deus Ex cyberpunk stealth-meets-action series has been digging into the topic of transhumanism since Y2K, but this fifth entry set in t...
Batman: The Telltale Series (Episode One: Realm of Shadows)
Multiplatform
PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2016
Batman V Superman may have sucked at the cinema, and Gotham grinds away on the small screen, but videogames are proving once again to be wh...
2D Gaming Adds Depth
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2016
Gaming has always been an unpredictable beast, but that's especially true this summer. Everyone wrote off Nintendo (again) right up until P...
Monster Hunter Generations
3DS
PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2016
Though massively popular in its Japanese homeland — Uniqlo has a whole line of Monster Hunter T-shirts and hoodies alongside its Pixar and...