Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Mass Effect 2

Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2010

Beloved Edmonton, AB studio BioWare's Mass Effect sequel is the Empire Strikes Back of its sprawling sci-fi trilogy. As with the best gamin...

Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

DS

PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2010

As Nintendophiles impatiently await a rumoured reinvention in the eventually upcoming Wii Legend of Zelda, they're being assuaged by Zelda'...

The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces

Wii

PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2010

Console flying games will never come close to matching the stark realism of Microsoft's long-running computer series Flight Simulator. Nor...

The Music Box

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

The term "videogame music" is often intended as an insult, deriding electronic beatscapes as rudimentary by comparing them to the 8-bit by...

Bayonetta

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2010

"I've got a fever and the only cure is dead angels." -Bayonetta Ever since the Christmastime gaming deluge ended, I've been killing a lot...

Darksiders

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2010

Darksiders makes much more story sense than other angel-killing hot title, Bayonetta, as it should, since it was created by comic book arti...

Assassin's Creed II

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Jan 7, 2010

By most definitions, the first Assassin's Creed was a resounding success. It's hard to argue with eight million copies sold of a fantastic-...

War Games

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2009

On the eve of Remembrance Day ― less than a week after a Muslim-American army major massacred 13 fellow soldiers in Fort Hood rather...