Jason Johnson

Witchmarsh lets you hack-n-slash while pretending to learn about US history

Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs Witchmarsh. At least that’s what history according to video

Fantastic drawings of Walt’s original, utopian vision for Disneyland

The original prospectus for Disneyland has been revealed, and jolly gee is it great. Boing Boing has gotten ahold of the 6-page written document that explains Walt’s mission statement in detail. The booklet is full of strange factoids that will tickle the fancy of any Disney fan, like how the park i

And the finalists for best Euro-style board game of the year are…

Germany to boardgames, particularly “eurogames,” is like 1970s England was to punk, or post-WWI Paris was to Lost Generation literary works. It is the motherland, so it’s important to keep an eye on the German boardgame festival Spiel des Jahres.  This year’s grand prize finalists include the very L

At last, an Oculus Rift game where you can play Zelda on a crappy old TV

Visiting fantastic virtual worlds. Simulating amazing experiences you’ll never have in real-life. Having out-of-body experiences in cyberspace. Forget all that. What we really want to do in virtual reality is play old games.  And that is exactly what the MemoRift project by Roy Lazarovich allows you

Good news: Google is buying Twitch. Bad news: live-stream Let’s Plays

According to which news outlet you ask, it has either been reported, confirmed, or unable to be confirmed that Google is acquiring the ever-popular videogame streaming service Twitch for a cool billion. This is just the latest indicator of how ungodly huge people watching other people playing games