Jason Johnson

Dino Run 2 evolves or goes extinct on Kickstarter

An epoch is coming to a close. A meteor the size of Pangaea, the great uni-continent, gleams in the atmosphere. A mysterious melody of bleeps and bloops wails from somewhere you know not. And a stampede of triceratopses, raptors, brontosauruses, and pterodactyls instinctively run to the right, the m

What’s Neil Gaiman been up to with Odd Gentlemen?

Not a lot of writing, apparently. It’s no secret that the author Neil Gaiman has been on board for a new game with indie developers The Odd Gentlemen, best known for the Chaplinesque The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (and for drawing us an awesome t-shirt design of an octopus smoking a calabash

Eon Altar brings console players and table-toppers together at last

For as long as I can remember, which albeit isn’t that long, we’ve played our videogame role playing games on a monitor and our tabletop role playing games at the kitchen table. As thus, sitting in front of a screen lacked the face-time of a good boardgame, and boardgames lacked the fluidity of stab

Online penetration is still a barrier to esports

Esports are huge. This year’s League of Legends World Championship was held at a sold-out Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers. With spectacular events like this, it’s easy to forget that there is a huge barrier to esports that doesn’t exist with other sports. Namely, a large portion of th

Orthy speaks out on building better online game communities

The internet is a great place to be if you demand an endless stream of pictures of cute cats and ugly babies. But it’s not so great if you are announcing features for a new game console that fans are not especially stoked about, (or are a professional bodybuilder trying to pass on your knowledge to