Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Amazing Spider-Man 2

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2014

Documentarians recently dug up the Holy Grail of gaming — if by Holy Grail one means arguably the worst game ever, one so bad that it...

Is Fan-Funding Letting the Gaming Industry Off the Hook?

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2014

Tim Schafer is a bespoke auteur in a by-committee industry, a Joss Whedon of gaming whose fervent fan base will follow wherever his quirky,...

inFAMOUS: Second Son

PS4

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2014

Socio-politics has had an easier time infiltrating other forms of pop culture than gaming, from the terror era analogies of Battlestar Gala...

Titanfall

Xbox One / PC

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2014

There has perhaps never been a more apropos name for a company than Respawn Entertainment. Yes, it's a hat-tip to the most emblematic gamep...

Can Downloads Help Gaming Find Creative Freedom?

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2014

My name is Adéwalé and I'm in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, machete drawn. Having helplessly encountered a slave auction soon after gett...

Bravely Default

3DS

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2014

Japanese role-playing games have long been considered a dying, if not dead, genre outside of where the sun rises. Even Final Fantasy, the i...

The Lego Movie Videogame

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2014

This is a Lego videogame based on a Lego movie greenlit thanks to the popularity of previous Lego videogames, which are, of course, based o...

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Xbox One

PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2013

Created by Copenhagen studio Press Play, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a spiritual sequel to Max & the Magic Marker, the indie WiiWare,...