Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Splatoon

Wii U

PUBLISHED May 29, 2015

Multiplayer shooters and Nintendo have never quite matched up, even back when third-party games like Call of Duty bothered to port their ef...

50 Shades of Play

Bloodborne Is One of the Hardest Games Ever. How Fun Is That?

PUBLISHED May 21, 2015

I'm dead. Again. Actually, make that many frustrating agains. Even the beginning of Bloodborne, the latest exercise in interactive sadomaso...

Wolfenstein: Old Blood

PS4, XB1, PC

PUBLISHED May 5, 2015

Indiana Jones' indelible gripe "Nazis; I hate these guys" was one I once shared as a gamer. Early gaming relied too heavily on our WWII Eur...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China

PS4, XB1, PC

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2015

Much like blockbuster movies, triple-A games have gotten bigger in recent years. While this can still result in great pop-cultural products...

Strange Days

The Evolutionary Needs Of Now-Gen Gaming

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2015

I'm playing an 18-year-old girl named Maxine Caulfield — Catcher in the Rye reference intended — having a vivid nightmare in ph...

Ori And The Blind Forest

Xbox One, PC

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2015

Once upon a time, side-scrolling platformers moved only to the right. Then one day the Metroid and Castlevania franchises made their maps f...

Helldivers

PS4, PS3, Vita

PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2015

Top-down shooters are enjoying a renaissance as Helldivers joins the download-only ranks of Super Stardust Ultra, the '70s-set LA Cops and...

Nintendo 3DS XL

PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2015

The Wii U may be losing the now-gen console war (though seriously, you guys, it's a pretty good machine with really good games) but Nintend...