Joe Blancato Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Playing for Keeps

A Slightly Serious Primer

In the past year or so, I’ve been hearing things whispered about serious games at conferences and tossed around in emails. People are ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorJanuary 30, 2007

News

Mailbag 2.0 – 01/15/07

Hey, kiddos. It’s that time again, for the semi-regular Mailbag here at The Escapist HQ. Just like last time, I take a look ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorJanuary 15, 2007

News

We Rock the Nerfbat Party

Fresh off the Nerfbat presses, I’m happy to announce we at The Escapist tallied an award for Best Dev Bloglomerate of 2006! We ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorJanuary 10, 2007

Editor's Note

Where’s My Flying Car?

“It’s the Year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don’t see anyflying cars. Why? Why? Why?”– ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorJanuary 9, 2007

Op-Ed

The DMCA in the Metaverse

I’ll give Second Life one thing: They manage to create more interesting thought experiments than the Philosophy 101 class I dropped in college. ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorJanuary 9, 2007

Boom!

Curt Schilling: The Escapist Interview

Since Sunday, November 4, 2001, Curt Schilling has been my nemesis. That was the day he and Randy Johnson teamed up to beat ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorJanuary 2, 2007

Editor's Choice

The Rise and Fall of Troika

When I discovered Troika Games, I had never heard of the company’s three founders, Leonard Boyarsky, Jason Anderson and Tim Cain. I didn’t ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 26, 2006

News

Opera and the Wii Make Cute, Cute Babies

As our intrepid Shawn Andrich pointed out, Opera, the popular web browser, will be available on the Wii this Friday. Pretty cool stuff, ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 19, 2006

Op-Ed

Meet the Team Question for The Escapist Issue 75

Each week we ask a question of our staff and featured writers to learn a little bit about them and gain some insight ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 18, 2006

News

The Escapist Mailbag

When the moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 15, 2006

Dungeons & Dollars Redux

Club Xanadu

I log in to Entropia on a Friday night to visit Club Neverdie. I’m here to meet a man and interview him, if ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 12, 2006

Op-Ed

Meet the Team Question for Issue 74

Each week we ask a question of our staff and featured writers to learn a little bit about them and gain some insight ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 11, 2006

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