Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Red Faction: Guerrilla

PC / PS3 / Xbox 360 / Wii

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2009

In the wake of the Iranian uprising, not to mention years of Iraqi and Afghani insurgencies, it's a little weird playing Red Faction: Guerr...

Excitebots: Trick Racing

Wii

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2009

It's got the retro-signifier name for the old schoolers, but otherwise there's no connection between Excitebots and that NES classic Excite...

Play Acting

Movie Games No Longer Suck

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2009

Don't cross the streams. That was the memorable refrain from iconic '80s flick Ghostbusters , but it doesn't just apply to proton guns. Tha...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition

PS3 / Xbox 360

PUBLISHED May 29, 2009

One of the inherent problems with any X-Men game, going as far back as Konami's six-player arcade classic, is that it's intrinsically more...

InFamous

PS3

PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

If you go out and buy inFamous because you were a fan of the developer's past work on the Sly Cooper series you may get a better understand...

Go Go Gaming

Behold the Tiny, Handheld Future

PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

Handheld gaming was, once upon a time, a child's medium - hence Nintendo naming its pioneering portable the Game Boy - until an all-ages at...

MadWorld

Wii

PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

Many of today's biggest videogames are violent but the most popular gaming console has been largely violence-free. Luckily, the super-styli...

DJ Hell Hits Highwater

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2009

Trends wax and wane but talent endures - and if you're a cynical bastard who doubts that feel-good aphorism, than look no further than DJ H...