Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2012

Self-taught indie game maker (and illustrator/animator) Dean Dodrill spent the past three-and-a-half years creating, coding, drawing and de...

New Super Mario Bros. 2

3DS

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2012

During an economic downturn, Keynesian economics argues the necessity of a stimulus. But that cash has to come from somewhere ― simpl...

You Forgot It in Pixels

Toronto's Gaming Scene Levels Up

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

Sound Shapes, the acclaimed 2D musical platformer from Jonathan Mak's micro-studio Queasy, is the most Toronto game of all time ever. The s...

Does Parody Translate into Pixels?

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2012

Self-styled punk game designer Suda51, the brains behind iconoclastic Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture, likes to take the piss out o...

Gravity Rush

PS Vita

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2012

It would be a shame if Gravity Rush were reduced to its ingenious titular game mechanic or its best-Vita-title-yet status, though it's cert...

The Amazing Spider-Man

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2012

Comic book superheroes have taken over pop culture for seemingly the past forever, but until Batman: Arkham Asylum, there were only few suc...

Sorcery

PS3

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2012

The Playstation 3's Move peripheral was Sony's way of splitting the difference between the Nintendo's motion-sensing Wii-mote and Microsoft...

Sideway: New York

PS3

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2012

At E3 last month, Sony announced their PlayStation Plus paid service would be giving members an instant game library. One of those free tit...