Jason Johnson

8-bit Zardoz rears its soothsaying stone head

A few years ago, Nick Criscuolo uploaded a sublime mock-up trailer for an 8-bit adaptation of Zardoz, the best absurd cult sci-fi to feature Sean Connery in a red spandex loincloth. Now Nick is very much interested in making that fictional project a reality, throwing some rather inconceivable level

1000 Days in Syria brings interactive (non)fiction to war journalism

For a brief period after the onset of the Syrian Civil War, journalist Mitch Swenson was there, hitching rides with Syrian rebels and rubbing elbows with smugglers. Then, he came home to the US to write a free-to-play adventure game about it. (Full disclosure: he has written exactly 2 articles for u