Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  Resident Wii-vil

  Videogame

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2007

  With Nintendo’s now-gen console still surging, publishers are scrambling to get their games onto the Wii. Often that’s meant games from oth...

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  The Godfather: The Game

  PS2 / PC

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  Considering Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films are themselves adaptations of Mario Puzo's novel, Coppola seems disingenuous railing aga...

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  Grandia III

  PS2

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  Though Japanese role-playing games have generally been a niche genre on this side of the sea, Square-Enix has made major inroads with its m...

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  Odama

  Gamecube

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  Odama is, above all else, odd. This third-party GameCube title somehow combines a pinball game with a real-time strategy military simulator...

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  Indigo Prophecy

  PS2 / PC

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  Most games boasting a cinematic scope include interminable cut-scenes that take the player out of the moment. But the hugely ambitious Indi...

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  Ape Escape 3

  PS2

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  Believing the only thing more fun than a barrel of monkeys is catching them in a pixilated net, Sony delivers the third iteration of their...

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  Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows

  PS2 / PC

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  The original Gauntlet, a pioneering four-player arcade classic, ate enough quarters to fuel two decades of nostalgia. Though the latest rev...

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  Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

  Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

  Think of Lost Planet as the ice planet Hoth section of The Empire Strikes Back stretched into an entire game. Oh, but instead of staying wa...