Nick Halme Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Happy Anniversary

As the light fades and a teenage girl talks at her friend about her position on nanobot-assisted metabolism in the far future (and ...

The Day After

“What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning: The end is where ...

Play Fighting

In one of my first columns here on The Escapist, a reader suggested that the gaming generation(s) will grow up telling different stories ...

Play Fighting

I recently overheard a conversation on Twitter — as much as a few tweets back and forth can be construed as a conversation ...

Play Fighting

I’ve just gotten back from GDC Canada; two days of session after session on the topic of game development. And now I have ...

Play Fighting

Anyone who tells you war is hell isn’t being entirely truthful with you. War is hell, yes, but in its own way army ...

Play Fighting

I thought I’d start the column off with something big: What is a game? If it isn’t really what we thought it was, ...

Op-Ed

A big trend in game design these days is user experience design – creating an enveloping experience for the player to immerse themselves ...