Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  Super Mario Galaxy

  Wii

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

  Mario’s continued dominance in the gaming world is a curious one. Yet the fat little plumber has earned, and maintained, our affection beca...

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  Battle of the (Virtual) Bands

  Guitar Hero 3 Faces Rock Band Challenge

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  Music history is littered with rivalries, from the Beatles and Stones to Kanye and Fiddy. Now a pair of music videogames — RedOctane’s reig...

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  Eternal Sonata

  Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  Imagine the exact opposite of BioShock’s underwater art deco dystopia and you’ve pretty much pictured the vividly coloured pastoral wonderl...

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  Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass

  DS

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  Mario may get all the attention, and the koopa trooper groupies, but Nintendo’s fortunes have relied just as heavily on the Zelda series’ y...

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  Skate.

  PS3 / Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  Most every sport has its Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, an athlete so overpowering everyone else is satisfied fighting for second best. Ton...

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  Bio Mass

  The Importance of Original Thinking

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  The gaming industry thinks of itself in terms of generations. But though such talk promotes revolution, not evolution, each hardware jump i...

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  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  Wii

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  Yeah, I know I just went on a mega-rant against gaming’s never-ending flood of sequels — and Metroid is one of Nintendo’s oldest franchises...

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  Jeanne d'Arc

  PSP

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  Remember that awesome three-dimensional alien board game from Star Wars with the creatures that would wait their turn before killing each o...