Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Darling Clementine

How a digital eight-year-old brought emotion back from the Dead

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2013

The beating heart of The Walking Dead, Telltale Games' episodic point-and-click consensus pick for 2012's game of the year, is Clementine....

Borderlands 2

Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

Sequels have a bad rap and, as far as Hollywood goes, with good reason. A film like, say, The Matrix comes along, blows mind and then the a...

The Unfinished Swan

PSN

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

The Unfinished Swan is like the neck of its titular fowl: thin, beautiful and ultimately twisted. Like its better known PSN compatriot Jour...

Skyrim: Dragonborn

Xbox 360 / PC / PS3

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

Elder Scrolls games feel wondrously endless because of the countless hours that can be whiled away wandering the wilds of Tamriel without e...

The Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide:

Videogames

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2012

Whether you're a newbie, referring to videogames as "the videogames" or you've just finished modding your own Xbox like a whiz, you'll find...

Killing in the Name of…Learning

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2012

As the U.S. election raced to its recent finish line with America's biracial president battling Tea Party republicans, gamers were reliving...

Gaming's Two Solitudes

Bridging the Gap Between Japan and North America

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2012

Much like house and techno, America invented gaming only to see someplace else perfect it. Atari made that initial beachhead, but by the mi...

Papo & Yo

PSN

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2012

Child abuse and alcoholism aren't the usual inspirations for a videogame, but Papo & Yo (Portuguese for Father and I) isn't the usual video...