Chuck Wendig Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

A man drives up and would like directions. He tells me that his nephew goes to school with me, but he doesn’t know ...

The sages and scholars have predicted, by reading the bones and entrails of game reviewers, that when the year 2014 rolls around all ...

Rise From Your Grave

Dear Game Industry, I regret to inform you that you have failed your Zombie Aptitude Test, or the ZAT. You got a score ...

Editor's Choice

We all need friends. We can agree on that, can’t we? That having friends is A Good Thing? Having friends is part of ...

System Lords

You’re doing it wrong. Playing videogames, I mean. That’s okay; I was doing it wrong for a long time too. This is how ...

Deathmatch

“‘Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'”–William Golding, Lord of the Flies I used to tell people, “You ...

Industry of Inclusion

I’m clicking through the Fable III villager creator. I name the villager “Dave.” I answer the game’s questions: Dave is born in the ...

Second Banana

Seems I’ve gone and gotten myself into a pickle. I shouldn’t be alive, what with me being a lowly space janitor and all. ...

Cold Dark Heart

See this baby seal? So cute! A blobby white puffball straight out of a Miyazaki film. Oh, look! The widdle baby has rolled ...

Constructive Criticism

So, I get on the Twitters, and I say, “Hey, I see that Lord of the Rings Online is free to play. Anybody ...