Erin Hoffman Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

1988: The Golden Age of Game Piracy

It was 1999. The Sega Dreamcast was brand new, Tori Murden was crossing the Atlantic, and I was about to have a terrible ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorSeptember 8, 2011

Massively Casual

How Social Games Ate Our Lunch

The hardest thing in the world is being something new. Ask any disenfranchised minority who has ever wanted to vote, own property, or ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJuly 27, 2010

Editor's Choice

When the Stars Align

Videogames and the stars have always been connected. Lovers of computers and engineering have long recognized aeronautics as king, their imaginations ensnared by ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJanuary 19, 2010

Heavy Metal

Riot Grrrls Wanted

Games are cool because they’re a renegade art form that your parents hate. We need to figure out how [to make social impact ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2010

The Network

Ditching the V-Word

The word “game” is unfortunate, because it makes it sound like it isn’t real, but in multiplayer games and virtual worlds we do ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorDecember 22, 2009

Editor's Choice

Why Your Game Idea Sucks

We need to talk. It’s hard to believe no matter how many times you hear it, but it’s the truth: Your game idea ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorSeptember 29, 2009

Dungeons and Dollars

We the Gamers

Over the past several years many journalists, game developers and gamers themselves have tried their hand at drawing up a document that definitively ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorOctober 7, 2008

Erin Hoffman's Inside Job

Inside Job: Why We’re Here

Coming into this closing installment of “Inside Job,” I find myself reflecting on the changes that we’ve seen inside the industry just within ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJuly 25, 2008

Erin Hoffman's Inside Job

Inside Job: A Love Letter to Video Games

Well, nearly a year has passed, and this column is winding down. It was an experimental undertaking, and perhaps it’s because I feel ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2008

Editor's Choice

Someone Stole My Magic Sword

When is a game “just a game,” and when does it become something more? We all come up against this question sooner or ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJune 24, 2008

Erin Hoffman's Inside Job

Inside Job: Tools of the Trade II

Following up this month’s Inside Job rundown on the basics of game development tools, I asked game developers about their tools, starting with ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJune 20, 2008

Protect the Children

Slave To The Beat

It’s deadly and alluring,the sound of pounding heat,enslaving allwho dare succumbto the temptations ofthe forbidden beat… – Bad Religion, “Forbidden Beat” It is ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJune 10, 2008

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