Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Don't Shoot

Can Gaming Figure Out How to Interact Without Combat?

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2015

Games are combat. Be it football, Uno or chess, the goal is to defeat your opponent in a battle of brains and/or brawn. But despite the nom...

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

PS4

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2015

The quaint British village of Yaughton in the Shropshire countryside has been abandoned. You don't know why. Well, the game title provides...

Rare Replay

Xbox One

PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2015

Repackaging old games for new audiences began as a welcome shift in future-forward gaming culture, which had historically abandoned past-ge...

N++

PS4

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2015

Toronto microstudio Metanet, one of the pioneering indies that has helped build the city's still-bustling scene, has been basically iterati...

Arkham Knight

PS4, XB1

PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2015

Arkham Knight is basically the Days of Future Past of this beloved Batman videogame franchise, a critically acclaimed return to form thanks...

iGame Therefore I Am

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2015

When Apple's iPhone and iPad first arrived on the scene, followed not long after by Google's Android devices, gaming looked like it was fin...

LEGO: Jurassic World

Multiplatform

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2015

The modern Lego game era began a decade ago with Lego Star Wars, which parlayed the early viral success of stop-motion "Legomation" shorts...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PC, PS4, XB1

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2015

There's a certain meta-relief to exploring The Witcher 3 and discovering that the hype — including the absurd stat of over 200 awards...