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Q&A with the movers and shakers of the videogame industry. The writers and editors of The Escapist leave no stone unturned searching for the unvarnished truth about the modern game industry.

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Launching today for the Fallen Earth MMOG, AFK Interactive's mobile companion app lets you chat, send mail and craft items all on your phone.

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The Black Isle Studios veteran talks to The Escapist about his return to the Fallout franchise with Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas.

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The makers of RuneScape try to muster a more mature audience by publishing a free Eastern-themed MMORTS called War of Legends playable in your browser.

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Visit the world of Echo Bazaar, where your soul is for sale and the locals are buying.

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Welcome to The Escapist's LIVE interview with the LoadingReadyRun crew during their Desert Bus for Hope charity marathon. John Funk will be conducting today's interview at 4:00 PM EST, so sit back, relax and enjoy!

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Could a single game please both shooter and MMOG fans? You'll have to play Global Agenda to find out.

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The Escapist sat down with Chris Pramas, the designer of the upcoming pen-and-paper version of Dragon Age by Green Ronin Publishing, and talked tabletop.

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Yahtzee shares his thoughts on dick jokes, fans, and the ex-girlfriend who started it all.

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John Funk tours the upcoming Lord of the Rings Online Book 8 and the celebrations of the Summer Festival.

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What goes into the development of a game like Plants vs. Zombies? According to designer George Fan, Warcraft 3, stupid fish, and disco videos from Finland.

The Escapist Roundtable

This week the roundtable participants look at zebra carcasses, chibi doctors, human cadavers and anything else included in a good TV show to videogame adaptation.

The Escapist Roundtable

This week the editors look at the relationship between DLC and episodic content.

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Hilmar Petursson, CEO of EVE Online developer CCP, spoke with WarCry Senior Editor John Funk about what the global financial crisis - and Iceland's bankruptcy would mean for the company and for the world of EVE.

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"I think people say I'm a little bit harder on Microsoft than others just because I know them, and I know what they want, and I know why they want it," Fergusson says, "so I tend to call 'bullshit' a little bit quicker than other people do."

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Nestled high on the Dish Network's channel list is Gameplay HD, a 1080p channel where videogames take priority over videogame reviewers, professional gamers get treated like NFL athletes and cut-scenes run like feature-length films. I initially found the network via ESPN, who aired a shortened version of The Madden Challenge, a 24-man Madden tournament with a $10,000 purse, on Superbowl Sunday. From there I got into contact with Mark DeAngelis, Gameplay HD's creator, to ask him about his philosophy of televising games. Here's what he had to say, as he shouted over the sound of fire trucks rolling out of New York's Station 1 (their offices are on the same block).