Joel Johnson's posts

I have played Tribes: Ascend. If that statement doesn't make you jealous, provoke salivating, or awaken tense…

I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn't give a dragon's ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be…

Hello, eerbody! I'm in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software's new marquee…

This afternoon, in an empty conference room inside the Hilton Anatole—a bizarre amalgam of hotel, conference center,…

• Rage has been in the pipe for six years. "We invented this genre and we followed it a long ways...Maybe we shouldn't…

We've made a few small adjustments to our site today, including a new way to interact with stories in our right…

Hey guys, we're dating now. I think that's what clicking a button on Facebook means, anyway.

Remember Eli Porter? You probably wouldn't by name. But he's the kid who went viral in the "Iron Mic" freestyle…

Microsoft has trouble making hardware. Sony has trouble running online services. What if the next Xbox and the next…

What's happened in the business of video games this past week...

25-year-old Lana Del Rey certainly has a lot to be sad about: she's gorgeous, talented, and has excellent taste in…

Remember last year when those guys got together and made a magazine in 48 hours? They nearly got sued. But they also…

Last night on the way back to my apartment in New York's Lower East Side, I saw a crowd of men standing around two…

Which Swedish indie superstar developer just popped the question to his sweetheart? One clue: His game is such a hit…

Remember Matt Parson's 'Portalmon' mash-up design? For the next 48 hours, you can now buy it as a lovely t-shirt for…

I've never worn a pair of prototype pants before. But Betabrand, the San Francisco-based company who makes sweatshirt…

According to their Twitter updates, LulzSec has launched DDoS attacks—either on purpose or as a side effect of a…

If you've never experienced E3 before, right as you feel like you've caught up with the breakneck pace of…

I just had a hands-on demo with the hugely anticipated massively multiplayer role-playing game Star Wars: The Old…

According to CVG, Activision CEO wandered by the E3 booth of Battlefield 3, the regicidal threat to his company's…