Articles by Joshua Ostroff

​Zen and the Art of Procedural Generation

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2016

No Man's Sky was supposed to be the game of the summer. The rabidly anticipated outer-space sandbox from British indie Hello Games promised...

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

PS4, XB1, PC

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2016

The Deus Ex cyberpunk stealth-meets-action series has been digging into the topic of transhumanism since Y2K, but this fifth entry set in t...

Batman: The Telltale Series (Episode One: Realm of Shadows)

Multiplatform

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2016

Batman V Superman may have sucked at the cinema, and Gotham grinds away on the small screen, but videogames are proving once again to be wh...

2D Gaming Adds Depth

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2016

Gaming has always been an unpredictable beast, but that's especially true this summer. Everyone wrote off Nintendo (again) right up until P...

Monster Hunter Generations

3DS

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2016

Though massively popular in its Japanese homeland — Uniqlo has a whole line of Monster Hunter T-shirts and hoodies alongside its Pixar and...

I Am Setsuna

PS4, PS Vita, PC

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2016

For the longest time, gaming was the rare pop cultural medium that always seemed to move forward. Even when mining nostalgic franchises, te...

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens

All consoles

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2016

Lego returns to its gaming roots with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a predictable and predictably fun romp that sends mini-figures of Finn,...

​A New Hope

Can The NX Reclaim Nintendo's Throne?

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2016

You wouldn't know it from all the people hunting Pikachus and Jigglypuffs around your neighbourhood with Nintendo's augmented-reality smart...