Articles by Joshua Ostroff

L.A. Noire

PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC

PUBLISHED May 26, 2011

Rockstar Games will always be known as the Grand Theft Auto guys, but the house the Houser Brothers built has always had higher ambitions t...

The Next BIG Thing

PC

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2011

Though point-and-click adventure gaming has been enjoying a mini-revival, thanks to iPads and iPhones, the old-school PC version has always...

Portal 2

PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2011

It isn't easy following an out-of-nowhere success like the famously innovative Portal ― basically a tech-demo packed into Valve's Ora...

The Sworcerer's Apprentices

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2011

And lo, a great darkness covered the land of Jobs as Apple's game-playing apostles were abandoned by the game wizards of the '90s who swore...

Dragon Age 2

Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2011

Once upon a time, a role-playing game involved a pen and paper, some crazy-sided dice and a group of kids in a dingy basement (Rush posters...

Killzone 3

PS3

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2011

The balance of power in first-person shooters long ago shifted from single-player towards multi, and Killzone 3 is but the latest to apply...

Shattered Glasses: Is Nintendo's 3DS a Game Changer?

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2011

Barack Obama may have coined the Charlie Sheen-ian slogan "win the future" during this year's State of the Union address, but Nintendo is a...

LittleBigPlanet 2

PS3

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2011

If you build it, they will come. That was the basic premise behind the original LittleBigPlanet, a side-scrolling platformer, complete with...