Jason Johnson

A Song for Viggo is to depression what a Michael Bay flick is to explosions

Now in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, it’s basically the saddest game imaginable, a papercraft point-and-clicker with a hangdog piano soundtrack about the most doleful topic imaginable: parents who accidentally killed their kids. It’s also all really pretty and made by hand and folded from pa

Anna Anthropy and Merritt Kopas’s new game is jilted love in deep space

If only breakups were as much fun to watch in real life as they are in deep space. SPACE/OFF is a bomb-dropping, laser-zapping spaceship battler inspired in equal parts by Star Control and DIY pixel art. It’s also a game for two about separating from the one you’d thought you’d spend forever with, o

SteamBoy, the illegitimate lovechild of Steam and a Game Boy

While we were in our post-E3 stupor, a dev group went and announced a rather miraculous handheld system that plays Steam games. Due out in 2015, the SteamBoy, as the portmanteau suggests, combines the awesome library of Valve’s popular digital download platform with the play-it-anywhere-ability of a