Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Nintendo DS

PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2014

Pop culture loves its crossovers, be it Spidey teaming up with Superman in comic books, Aliens taking on Predators onscreen or the Simpsons...

80 Days

iOS

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2014

80 Days is not actually named after the 1980s, though the iOS game is something of an homage to that decade's beloved Choose Your Own Adven...

Spies Like Us

What 'Watch Dogs' Wants To Teach Us About Privacy

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2014

Timing is everything in pop culture, but it's often as much about luck when it comes to capturing the zeitgeist. Terror-era TV shows like B...

Shovel Knight

Wii U / 3DS / PC

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2014

Summer may be blockbuster season for movies, but apparently even otherwise pasty-faced gamers like to play in the sunshine. This pretty muc...

Shining A Light On the Future of Graphics

PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2014

When the current console generation launched last fall, much of the conversation focused on the graphics, as it always does. But unlike the...

Mario Kart 8

Wii U

PUBLISHED May 30, 2014

The Wii U has stalled out, however unfairly given its recent run of releases, and Nintendo is betting on its plumber/kart racer to provide...

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED May 20, 2014

Marvel comics has periodically published a comic line called "What If..?" which allows artists and writers to play around with alternate pa...

Virtual Reality Bites Back

PUBLISHED May 6, 2014

I use my finger to sign an insanely long iPad release form, which I don't pretend to read, and step inside a wooden compartment. A woman pl...