Nick Calandra
Nick Calandra has been covering video games for over 14 years, holds a bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Journalism and now leads the team at The Escapist. Previously Nick created and led teams at TitanReviews, Velocity Gamer, OnlySP and Gameumentary, before becoming Editor-in-Chief of The Escapist in 2019. He has done everything from covering the smallest of indie games to creating documentaries on some of the most well-known video game franchises in the industry such as Darksiders, Divinity: Original Sin, EVE and more. While his favorite games right now include Rainbow Six Siege and Elden Ring, Nick is constantly experimenting with new genres to expand his gaming tastes and knowledge of the industry.

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Read Article This Week’s The Last of Us Went Full Video Game – The Recap
This week on The Recap podcast, Marty, Darren, and Nick discuss The Last of Us episode 5 Endure and Survive and catch up on some of the entertainment news.
Read Article 2023 Is Starting to Feel Like the Swan Song for Switch – Breakout
Breakout podcast: We discuss the February 2023 Nintendo Direct and how it begins a swan song for the Switch life cycle.
Read Article Don’t Fall for The Day Before
The Day Before announcement trailer was a scam and a lie and FNTASTIC with Mytona has a bad, different game in development per its gameplay trailer
Read Article In Live Service, It’s All or Nothing
Live-service games Rumbleverse, Knockout City, Marvels Avengers, Echo VR, & CrossfireX have all decided to shut down and die - a trend and problem in the video game industry
Read Article Death Stranding Is Now One of My Favorite Games, All It Took Was Changing the Difficulty
Death Stranding Is Now One of My Favorite Games, All It Took Was Changing the Difficulty
Read Article Is Xbox Ever Going to Address the Long-Term Goals of Halo Infinite?
If Xbox & 343 Industries have long-term goals for Halo Infinite, they are a mystery, and after layoffs, frustration and confusion mounts.
Read Article The Last of Us Episode 1 Is a Masterful Adaptation – The Recap
The Last of Us HBO episode 1 premiere podcast The Recap Darren Mooney Marty Sliva Nick Calandra
Read Article Is 2023 the Year PlayStation Finally Gets Back to Multiplayer Games? – Breakout
Is 2023 The Year PlayStation Finally Gets Back to Multiplayer Games? Breakout The Last of Us Horizon online
Read Article If Sony Doesn’t Want Xbox to Be the Home for FPS Games, Then It Needs to Compete – Week in Review
The Week in Review at The Escapist: New dogs, and Sony PlayStation should make new FPS games if it's so concerned with Microsoft / Activision.
Read Article Our Favorite Genre TV Outside the Major Franchises – The Recap
This week on The Recap podcast, we discuss the TV shows we watching outside of stuff like Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Marvel, such as Wednesday and Severance.