Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Injustice: Gods Among Us

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED May 8, 2013

A Venn diagram of comic book fans and videogamers would show a pretty large community crossover. One of the first efforts to bring these fo...

Bioshock Infinite

Taking American Exceptionalism to the Extreme

PUBLISHED May 6, 2013

The year is 1912, just not our 1912, and up above the world so high floats the fantastical city of Columbia, an art nouveau "utopia" that f...

Gears of War: Judgment

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

Thanks to the ascendance of series like The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, we've come to consider pop culture primarily as sets of trilog...

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

3DS

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2013

If you ever had an older sibling, you know how it can sometimes make you feel invisible, like people don't really care about you, except ma...

A View to a Kill

Tomb Raider Ramps Up the Violence but Tries to Make it Matter

PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2013

Tomb Raider, like many long-running franchises as of late, has been rebooted rather than sequel-ized. So instead of the effortlessly effect...

Handmade Tale

Ni No Kuni and the Life of Artisanal Animation

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2013

Disney recently re-released Peter Pan on Blu-Ray to celebrate the film's 60th birthday and — aside from the racist and sexist portray...

The Cave

Xbox 360 / PS3 / Wii

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2013

As the brains behind LucasArts' '80s computer classics Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island, Ron Gilbert popularized the point-and-click advent...

Fire Emblem: Awakening

3DS

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2013

Remember that Star Wars scene when R2D2 and Chewie are playing 3D holo-monster chess (dejarik to the geekier amongst us)? The latest Fire E...