Jason Johnson

Korg M01D brings 80s synth-pop to the 3DS eShop

In the dominion of analog synths, the Korg MS is iconic as they come—a black and white keyboard with an upright console of knobs towering above.  The Korg M1, not so much. But looks can be deceiving. While the M1 was a standard keyboard, it sonically outperformed its accordion-shaped older brother.

Smart glass will lead the way to a spike in augmented reality games

With the coming of age of wearable computer technology like Google Glass (and not like this), the use of augmented reality is posed to accelerate by a lot in the coming years.  A new report predicts a “paradigm shift” where AR use will expand by 333 percent by the year 2018, increasing from 60 milli

Fract is the first-person synthesizer that lets you touch sound

Synesthesia, or the mental state that blurs the boundaries between sight and sound, is a rare neurological condition. That is unless you’re playing Fract, where it happens all the time.  “The audio is so intrinsically connected to the mechanics of the puzzles. Because many systems are plugged into w

How Forza 5 uses the cloud to create more human A.I.

Forza Motorsport 5 is launching with the Xbox One, which means we will all soon be racing shiny expensive roadsters against a sentient supercomputer A.I. that’s based in the cloud, eyeing our every move.  “First we have to see what it’s going to continue learning, once there’s a million people train

Lightning Bolt’s guitarist’s new game is a spiraling highway of death

Leave it to the bassist from Lightning Bolt to make the demonic/cyberpunk, rhythm/racing game of your dreams. If you haven’t heard of the band, imagine a relentless, noisy shredding of vainglorious metal riffs. If you haven’t heard of the genre, well, neither have we! Thumper is the game in question