Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2013

When Ubisoft opened up its Toronto office a couple years back, the new studio had much to prove, especially since the first game it was ass...

Saint's Row IV

PS3 / PC / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2013

When Saint's Row debuted back in 2006, it was nothing more than a less-ambitious Grand Theft Auto clone. Not that it wasn't relatively fun,...

Can Nintendo Beat the Unbearable Grimness of Gaming?

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2013

It's been a good year or so for games, but somewhat less so for fun. On the precipice of a new console generation, the current-gen's last g...

Remember Me

PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC

PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2013

"What If?" was a novelty line from Marvel that reimagined key points in comic book continuity to see how small changes could make stories p...

The Last of Us

PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2013

Back when Sony first got into the gaming business, they wanted a Mario- or Sonic-type mascot, and so they hired a tiny little developer cal...

She Shoots, She Scores

A Brief History of Video Game Music

PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2013

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, the Canadian "multidisciplinary hyper orientalist cesspool of 'east' meets 'west' culture," are quite serious abo...

Metro: Last Light

PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC

PUBLISHED May 28, 2013

Alternate-reality games are all the rage right now, but three-year-old first-person shooter Metro 2033 (the debut effort from Ukrainian stu...

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC

PUBLISHED May 27, 2013

The '80s were a golden era for baroque action movies fuelled by testosterone, Creatine and unlimited ammo. They were also a golden age for...