Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Professor Layton and Diabolical Box

DS

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

Like Indiana Jones and Short Round, Professor Layton is an archaeology instructor with a signature hat and a young apprentice who solves my...

Side-Scrolling Re-Enters Stage Left

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

Gaming's silver age was the late '80s side-scroller era, a bygone time when Italian plumbers and blue hedgehogs were superheroes, Contra's...

No Joy in Stickville

The End of Game Controllers?

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2009

The codename for Nintendo's GameCube sequel was "Revolution," which seemed presumptuous since the Japanese gamemaker was then wallowing in...

Little King's Story

Wii

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2009

Once upon a time, a bunch of awesomely weird Japanese developers, whose cult game studio Love-De-Lic had disbanded years earlier, reunited...

Fat Princess

PS3

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2009

Online multiplayer has been all the rage the past few years and whether playing as space marines, terrorists or Russian mobsters, most mode...

Prototype

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

Subjected to an illicit military-industrial experiment in your memory-clouded past, you awaken as the titular Prototype, a living, breathin...

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

The original pull of the Wild West was the promise of (mostly) empty lands. Nowadays, Wild West videogames inhabit a similarly under-popula...

Don't Look Back In Anger

Where's Long Tail Thinking For Classic Games?

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

The goal of gaming is to advance, to level, to move from Mushroom A to Castle B. Fair play, but this fixation on forward momentum has unfor...