Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Mafia II

PC / Xbox 360 / PS3

PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2010

The Grand Theft Auto series has left such an indelible imprint on gaming that it's like Die Hard: an essentialist ideal that can be applied...

Arty For the Ages

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2010

There's been a longstanding debate over whether or not videogames can be art, but even infamous critic Roger Ebert admitted: "That a game c...

Transformers: War for Cybertron

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2010

As an '80s baby whose worst-ever Christmas was when I got Go-Bots instead of Transformers (I know, right?) I skipped the Michael Bay blockb...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2010

Scott Pilgrim may be targeting today's 20-something hipster, but the videogame-inspired book-turned-movie-turned-videogame franchise is emb...

Joe Danger

PS3

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2010

Super Mario and Zelda may have gotten more attention, but for those who grew up on Nintendo's original NES console, ExciteBike was equally...

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

Wii

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2010

There's been so much talk lately about "feature creep" — the addition of unnecessary features because gamers demand them, not because...

Crackdown G20

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2010

Crackdown 2 was pretty fun when I first played the demo. But before I got my thumbs on the final code, the G20 summit tore apart downtown T...

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Wii

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2010

The sequel to Nintendo's galactic revamp of its plumber-based platforming franchise further redefines its genre though anything-goes perspe...