Shannon Drake Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

For decades, every game was a unique snowflake. Teams started from scratch every time, reinventing the wheel with every game, as each one ...

Golden Ticket

For a writer, the dilemma is Faustian. Someone with a lot of money – say, Paramount – has a property they want to ...

Op-Ed

The little console that could conquered our hearts and homes, blowing away analyst and fan expectations with sales so high it’s still almost ...

Reviews

One of the topics we like to cover is games that are about more than fun. Games can be used as marketing tools, ...

Reviews

With StarCraft 2 announced and World of Warcraft flourishing, Blizzard’s Diablo franchise is the only one of the Big Three that’s long in ...

Interviews

One hundred years after an epic disaster called The Big Wet, the scattered remains of humanity cling to existence in barren desert outposts, ...

On a Pale Horse

Mister Tophat was a dazzling socialite, a Consumer of the finer things in life, before they came. According to his in-game biography, he ...

Interviews

In our world, the U.S.S.R. fell, ending the Cold War and depriving the entire creative industry of a worthwhile bad guy. However, the ...

Reach Out

San Francisco startup Emotiv Systems emerged from the shadows at GDC 2007 with a rather startling announcement: They’re working on a way to ...

Interviews

Humanity toils beneath the boot of Dr. Wily and his robots, cowed by the relentless forces arrayed against them. Protoman has fallen, and ...

Founded in the midst of a Capcom shake-up in 2004, Clover Studios was a development group formed to “bring more originality to [Capcom’s] ...

Reviews

Jade Empire was a standout offering in the early life of the Xbox, a grim land where few RPGs dared tread. Now, for ...