Joel Johnson's posts

Thief, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Deus Ex—Doug Church has had his fingers in many a'PC-gaming classic. And now…

Simple truth about the iPad 2: Maybe it won't make you feel the way it makes me feel. Maybe it won't replace your…

You're a nefarious supervillian and you want to transform this city into a hive of mind-controlled minions. But you…

Wi-Fi provides a convenient way to connect the computers in your home without the hassle of wires, but Wi-Fi is also…

Women are a growing force in MMA fighting-and now they're fighting onscreen in the new game Supremacy. According to…

Amazingly, videos of tsunami waves coming ashore in Japan this week showed many people driving away from the water.…

Giant Bomb is trying to show 3D footage from the Nintendo 3DS in anaglyphic—old-school red-and-blue paper glasses…

You may recall Casey Heynes, the chunky kid who was tired of being bullied and became an icon. Now he's…

Forget "PC vs Console" wars. Now it's going to be "iPad vs Mac". (Keyboard and mouse forever!)

Rovio's Angry Birds is huge. Cultural touchpoint. The sort of thing Jon Stewart can joke about on The Daily Show…

Orange County, California might be bland, confesses one developer of Red 5's team-based shooter Firefall, but the…

There's nothing but an announcement for now. And while pop songs in games are hardly new, considering how suited The…

Mike Krahulik, co-creator of webcomic Penny Arcade, on his strangest inbound tweet from a fan while attending their…

There's more than just awkward sex in Dragon Age 2. There's also, you know, a plot. Which ends in one of two…

John Gruber of Daring Fireball, reviewing the iPad 2, had a developer friend write a quick testing suite for the…

Congratulations to Microsoft, who took what I thought was going to be a modest hit and making it a giant one. Now…

Fresh off the surreptitiously filmed, embargo-breaking train, it's the video footage of the engine that we…

Want to see if Epic's Bulletstorm will make you a sex-crazed murderer, but didn't want to pay full retail? Luck's…

Our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, the PC gaming partisans, uncovered a bit of a snarl in the Wikipedia page for…

According to Techcrunch, Apple's play for the mobile advertising market isn't hitting as hard as it needs to. "The…