Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Soul Calibur IV
PS3 / Xbox 360
PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2008
The games ads demand to know "whats within your soul? but the games makers are gambling they already know an inner Star Wars geek. Wh...
Civilization Revolution
PS3 / Xbox 360
PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2008
Sid Meier is a so-called "game God, both because he helped found the god-game genre with his seminal PC series Civilization and because he...
Top Spin 3
PS3 / Xbox 360
PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2008
Sports titles may be among gamings most popular genres, but in the summer it can be hard to justify sitting inside to play them. This is p...
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
PS3 / Xbox 360
PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2008
Remember in Raiders of the Lost Ark when that Egyptian dude does all the knife tricks and then Indy just shrugs and shoots him dead? Well,...
Ninja Gaiden
Xbox 360
PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2008
There may be a bazillion war games, but gun-toting grunts aint got nothing on the awesomeness of silent-but-deadly ninjas. The folks at Te...
Wii Fit
Wii
PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2008
Nintendo is a games company that prides itself on staying fighting trim, especially compared to the bloated waistlines of Sony and Microsof...
Funny and Games
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2008
A Satirical Perspective Masks Social Commentary The modern videogame has jumped a long way from the days when Mario first dodged Donkey Kon...
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
PS3
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2008
"War. Huh! Good God, yall. What is it good for? wondered Edwin Starr back in the 70s. Well, for the past 21 years Hideo Kojima has been...