Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Body Count

How Rockstar Deconstructed Gaming's False Morality

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2012

Nathan Drake, the "hero" of the Uncharted series, is an Indiana Jones-type treasure hunter who cracks wise and makes women swoon. At least...

Indie Game: The Column

PUBLISHED May 23, 2012

In the side-scrolling days, when you finished a game you started right back at the beginning. So it's poetic that an art form that began wi...

Starhawk

PS3

PUBLISHED May 23, 2012

When Sony released third-person shooter Warhawk in 2007, they pulled the single-player campaign last-minute for fear it didn't measure up t...

Game of Thrones

Xbox 360 / PS3

PUBLISHED May 23, 2012

Considering its intricate complexities and daunting darkness, it's astounding that George R.R. Martin's sprawling A Song of Ice and Fire se...

Multiplayer Embarks on a Hero's 'Journey'

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2012

I am all alone and lonesome in the desert, a red-robed faceless nomad with a matching scarf wafting behind me in the superheated air. The g...

Game Man

Sony's Vita Helps Handheld Gaming Grow Up

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2012

Cinematic may be a too-often used term for videogames, but it rarely, if ever, is used in regards to handhelds. But the PlayStation Vita, S...

Can Mac Get Back into the Game?

PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2012

The original mid-'80s Macintosh was a prehistoric machine by any modern measure but one that was also, at the time, a great leap forward. T...

Call of Duty: Star Warfare

PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2012

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... No, I mean a really long time ago. Like 3,500 or so years before Princess Leia sported a gold...