Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Videogame

8-Bit Hero

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2009

Mention "videogame music" and most folks still think of Atari 2600's blips and bloops, or SuperMario's coin ka-chings, rather than the note...

Toronto Electro Sensations Thunderheist Fight for Your Right to Party

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2009

"I was super drunk in Norway. It was Norway right? With the blonde girl, the $20 table blonde girl? Remember the girl I left with that nigh...

Requiem for the Coin-Op Arcade

Multiplayer Can't Replace An Audience

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2009

With a low roundhouse kick, a quick jump backwards and a little stick waggle, Ryu tosses his trademark hadōken fireball at the exposed...

Thunderheist Talk Some Trash About Crystal Castles and Lady GaGa

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2009

As Toronto's premier party rockers Thunderheist roll towards the release date on their too-long-awaited self-titled debut album, due out Ma...

TrackMania DS

DS

PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

Long before LittleBigPlanet and Spore made user-generated content part of the mainstream gamer lexicon, the cult PC racing series TrackMani...

Killzone 2

PS3

PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2009

For five years now, Sony has known that the guns were out for its first-person shooter Killzone 2. So they couldn't cut corners, not after...

Thunderheist Discuss Their Shift From Rapping To Singing

PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2009

Toronto's hippest hip-hop act Thunderheist may be only just about to drop their first full-length album, but their days as electro rap flag...

Videogames

Hot Damn

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

Just when you thought you were out of GTA IV, they keep pulling you back in. But Rockstar's new Xbox-only "episode" The Lost and Damned a...