Articles by Joshua Ostroff

NES Remix

Wii U

PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2013

Nintendo began in the '80s. No, not that one — the 1880s. But though it began as a 19th century playing card company, it's now of cou...

Adventure Time

A Triumphant Telltale Trades Zombies For Fables

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2013

When Telltale Games began releasing their episodic adaptation of The Walking Dead last year, the title could have been referencing the comp...

Batman: Arkham Origins

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2013

Gaming sequels generally don't have the baggage of film sequels because so much of the initial game is focused on building worlds, developi...

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2013

Assassin's Creed III may have been a polarizing entry in the Canadian-crafted franchise, but pretty much everyone agreed that the ship-boun...

Outlaw and Order in GTA Online

PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2013

In October an ambitious new service rolled out online — and immediately crashed when the servers collapsed under its unprecedented po...

The Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide:

Videogames and Consoles

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2013

Finishing off this year's Holiday Gift Guide are a few of our top choices for this year's best videogames and videogame systems. Whether yo...

Rewind Selectah

Why remastering the past is good for gaming's future

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2013

At Toronto's Fan Expo in August, the biggest lines were not for stars of Wars and Treks but to score a few minutes of next-gen playtime wit...

Beyond: Two Souls

PS3

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

David Cage (the literal auteur driving Parisian studio Quantic Dream and its new Ellen Page-starring title, Beyond: Two Souls) is about as...