Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  Mario Strikers Charged

  Wii

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  I’ve never been a big fan of sports games — Madden just feels like chess for macho-geeks to me — but Nintendo’s latest abandons the dull re...

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  Two Worlds

  Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

  I may not have yet finished Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (by the way, does it ever end? I’ve given like 70 hours of my life to this game) but I...

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  Viva La Demo-lution!

  A Free Taste Gets Gamers Hooked

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  While ensconced at a lakeside cottage in Northern Ontario last month, I whiled away some hours exploring the sun-dappled forests of the not...

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  Crush

  PSP

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  The realisation that Crush is more cerebral than your average puzzle game comes right at the tutorial, where the script writers traffic in...

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  Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception

  Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  The first time I popped in Project Sylpheed, a differently spelled offspring of ‘80s-era space shooter Silpheed, I must admit to cracking b...

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  Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

  Multi-platform

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  Though comic-based games like Marvel Ultimate Alliance can be quite, well, marvellous, comic-based movie games remain mysteriously average....

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  Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix

  Multi-platform

  PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2007

  If you think it’s been hard for the filmmakers to keep the Harry Potter formula fresh through five iterations, imagine how hard it has been...

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  Overlord

  Xbox 360 / PC

  PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2007

  Years of Grand Theft Auto have schooled us on the benefits of being bad but there’s being a low-level urban gangsta and there’s being a ful...