Articles by Joshua Ostroff

May the Light Cycle Be Unbroken

How <i>Tron</i> Shaped Gaming

PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2010

Arcades were all over '80s cinema, providing youth culture flair from War Games and The Last Starfighter up to Terminator 2. But only one m...

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Wii

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2010

Gaming's "next-gen" may have promised the future, but it has ironically ushered in a renaissance of old-school side-scrolling platformers....

Fallout: New Vegas

Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2010

Taking a page from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto side-quels, New Vegas is most certainly not Fallout 4. A numeral implies more advancement th...

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2010

It's easy to forget that while Batman: Arkham Asylum set a new standard for what a comic book videogame could be last year, Spider-Man 2 ha...

D.O.M. (Death of Multiplayer)

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2010

I come here not to praise multiplayer, but to bury it. Oh, I know I'll have little luck &#8213; even Jay-Z couldn't kill Auto-Tune and mult...

PlayStation Move

PS3

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2010

Sony's new peripheral is something of an odd fit. Though the PS3 has struggled since launch to recapture the dominant position it assumed 1...

Halo: Reach

Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2010

Pop cultural artefacts as big as Halo tend to be mainstream crossovers, but Master Chief never achieved Super Mario ubiquity and the Covena...

Ctrl. Alt. Tab.

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2010

Gaming may evolve with software, but industry revolutions require leaps in hardware &#8213; which is exactly what has happened in 2010 with...