Joel Johnson's posts

Microsoft has trouble making hardware. Sony has trouble running online services. What if the next Xbox and the next…

What's happened in the business of video games this past week...

25-year-old Lana Del Rey certainly has a lot to be sad about: she's gorgeous, talented, and has excellent taste in…

Remember last year when those guys got together and made a magazine in 48 hours? They nearly got sued. But they also…

Last night on the way back to my apartment in New York's Lower East Side, I saw a crowd of men standing around two…

Which Swedish indie superstar developer just popped the question to his sweetheart? One clue: His game is such a hit…

Remember Matt Parson's 'Portalmon' mash-up design? For the next 48 hours, you can now buy it as a lovely t-shirt for…

I've never worn a pair of prototype pants before. But Betabrand, the San Francisco-based company who makes sweatshirt…

According to their Twitter updates, LulzSec has launched DDoS attacks—either on purpose or as a side effect of a…

If you've never experienced E3 before, right as you feel like you've caught up with the breakneck pace of…

I just had a hands-on demo with the hugely anticipated massively multiplayer role-playing game Star Wars: The Old…

According to CVG, Activision CEO wandered by the E3 booth of Battlefield 3, the regicidal threat to his company's…

I'll give E3 this: It's colorful. We did a few laps to see the big dogs: Square Enix, Activision, Ubisoft, Konami,…

Stephen Totilo takes you on a whirlwind tour of Nintendo's latest play for the living room, the…

There's absolutely no way that the link that's at the end of this post is safe for work unless you work at a…

Although it's certainly not necessary to use a stylus all the time with the Nintendo Wii U's touchscreen controller,…

And to go along with the new controller, the first look at Nintendo's new console hardware. More details soon!

Here it is, folks. Your first look at Nintendo's new controller. Tons more detail to come. (And here's the Wii U…

This fall, says Microsoft, indie favorite Minecraft will be coming to Xbox, complete with Kinect motion controls.

It's the first press conference of E3 2011, but will it be the biggest? Microsoft is almost certainly showing off…