Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Far Cry Primal

PS4, XB1, PC

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2016

Far Cry has become one of the most interesting franchises of the modern era. Free from the trappings of a convoluted continuing narrative l...

Gen 6ix: Gaming's Greatest Generation

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2016

Videogames stopped being just for kids on September 24, 2001. That was the day that Fumito Ueda's Ico came out for Sony's year-and-a-half-o...

Lego Marvel's Avengers

Multiplatform

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2016

Digital bricklayer Traveller's Tales' move into the toys-to-life genre with Lego Dimensions was a great leap forward for the decade-old fra...

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam

3DS

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2016

The quantum physics-based alternate-reality conceit that has taken over comic books and sci-fi in recent years — think Marvel's Secret Wars...

Yakuza 5

PS3

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2016

The Yakuza series is a GTA-esque open-world crime drama that, historically, has made no compromises to western tastes. This fifth iteration...

Just Cause 3

PS4, XB1, PC

PUBLISHED Dec 29, 2015

The summer might be known for mindless action in the movie theatres, but Avalanche Studios is bringing that sort of high-octane, lowbrow th...

The Game After

A Brief History of Fallout 4's Post-Apocalyptic Retrofuture

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2015

From the moment Albert Einstein's theories were turned into bombs, a nuclear holocaust seemed inevitable; atomic anxiety was almost immedia...

Star Wars: Battlefront

PS4/XB1/PC

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2015

Battlefront is not quite the Star Wars game I'm looking for, however much its cinema-quality graphical fidelity and Episodes IV through VI...