Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  Petal Power

  <i>Flower</i> Seeds the Winds of Change

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

  "When we started we don't know what we are making. We just had this concept that every PlayStation is like a portal in your living room, i...

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  Afro Samurai

  PS3 / Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

  When that cel-shaded Zelda came out a few years back, gamer forums filled with fuming over its kiddie-cartoon look. That isn't going happen...

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  LocoRoco 2

  PSP

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

  Like a spiritual cousin to Cute Overload, Sony's LocoRoco series boasts gaming's most adorable art direction ever. As with the 2006 origina...

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  More Than Meets the Eye

  How Consoles Became Mission Control

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2009

  Used to be that when you bought a thing, it just did the thing you bought it for. Record players played records. Discmen spun CDs. Game con...

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  Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip

  Wii

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2009

  Snowboarding has never quite captured gamer imaginations like its landlocked cousin, and certainly Shaun White doesn't boast the name recog...

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  Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

  PS2

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2009

  As manga is to Marvel or Astro Boy is to Spongebob, the Japanese role-playing game is a related but utterly different beast than its Wester...

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  Prince of Persia

  Multi-platform

  PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2009

  When Montreal studio Ubisoft resurrected the venerable Prince of Persia franchise back in 2003, The Sands of Time was a near-perfect plat-f...

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  Far Cry 2

  Multi-platform

  PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2009

  First things first - this is not a true sequel. It's got a different developer (Ubisoft Montreal), setting, game play and characters. There...