Jason Johnson

World War Machine is like Diablo, but with hideous transhuman mecha

In the distant post-apocalyptic future, a war will be waged between grotesque mecha cobbled together from organic body parts, and it will be awesome. This post-apocalypse will also be fairly similar to Diablo, judging from this new trailer for World War Machine, a cool-looking loot-and-shoot-athon w

NSA threat words make for unexpectedly moving magnet poetry

The point of magnet poetry is to add a dash of creativity and wordsmithery to your fridge, I figure, but the point of this magnet poetry browser game is create a poem from the words those fearful “threat words” the Department of Homeland security is scanning the Internet for. The game is called POET

The 2014 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest winner, ladies and gentlemen

Rube Goldberg machines, those kooky machines that perform simple tasks with convoluted methods, are generally a thing of marvel, especially when said Rube Goldberg machine is the winner of the 2014 annual contest among college students. Luckily, that impossible contraption, which was built by a team

Composite photograph of average gamer is the saddest selfie ever

The average RuneScape player is pudgy, white, male, and severely depressed, according to a composite photo that melded together over 1000 faces of attendees at an event for the game held in London. OK, so the locale and choice of game might have skewed the results, but it still is interesting to thi