Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Hot Chip

Made in the Dark

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2008

Anyone who’s seen Hot Chip live over the past couple years, where the British electro-pop act have been test-driving new tracks, figured th...

Play Lists

Merger of Music and Gaming XL-erates

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

Games haven’t killed the video star — y’all can blame reality programming for that — but they are an increasingly important part of the new...

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

PS3

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

The PS3’s premiere adventure game may not be the most original on the market — it’s an archaeological amalgam of Indiana Jones and Tomb Rai...

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom

Xbox 360

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2008

Since 2001, the Kingdom Under Fire series has won adherents for its mix of massive real-time-strategy battles and RPG features. Well, those...

Wonder Woman: The Complete Collection

PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2008

All you really need to know about the ’70s-era Wonder Woman TV series is summed up in this theme song couplet: "In your satin tights/Fighti...

Year Over

Press "A” to Continue

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

Videogames may be an interactive medium but active does not necessarily mean innovative — which is why the past year, the most important si...

The Simpsons Game

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

Remember that Halloween episode where Homer went 3D? It was cool, I guess, but when playing a Simpsons videogame we want to play the cartoo...

Assassin's Creed

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

With a real war going on (and on) in the Middle East, the various war videogames set there have seemed, well, unseemly. But Ubisoft Montrea...