Susan Arendt, Author at The Escapist

News

Test Your Gaming Personality!

You’re just six questions away from determining your true gamer identity. If you managed to stay awake through your Psych 101 class, at ...

By Susan ArendtApril 13, 2009

News

Pony Badge Winner Announced!

The Escapist community was quick and clever, but in the end, there could be only one Pony Badge winner. It took just a ...

By Susan ArendtApril 7, 2009

Editor's Note

Carrot on a Stick

I am not ashamed to admit that I am an achievement whore. I love the darned things. Not just the Xbox Live achievements, ...

By Susan ArendtApril 7, 2009

News

Your Chance to Win the Coveted Pony Badge

Here’s your chance to be the one and only Escapist not on staff to sport the elusive and coveted Pony Badge. Pony Jam ...

By Susan ArendtApril 6, 2009

News

GDC 2009: Delta Airlines Fallout

My farewell to GDC involves an airplane, music, and crushing disappointment. As much as I love covering shows like GDC, I really hate ...

By Susan ArendtApril 3, 2009

Reviews

Review: The Path

The Path, a re-imagining of the story of Little Red Riding Hood, is a small indie “experiment” in which “most of the story ...

By Susan ArendtApril 2, 2009

GDC 2009

GDC2009: A Closer Look at Dragon Age: Origins

BioWare showed us a bit more of its next big RPG, Dragon Age: Origins and we liked what we saw. A lot. When ...

By Susan ArendtMarch 30, 2009

GDC 2009

GDC 2009: GDC’s Most Awkward Moment

GDC is always full of uncomfortable moments, but this one takes the cake. Whenever you gather game developers and game journalists in the ...

By Susan ArendtMarch 30, 2009

GDC 2009

GDC 2009: Neo Steam, the Steampunk MMO

Take a steampunk aesthetic, mix it with some bizarre quests and add a sprinkle of PVP and you get Neo Steam: The Shattered ...

By Susan ArendtMarch 27, 2009

GDC 2009

GDC 2009: What Makes Left 4 Dead Tick

Despite what you may think, Left 4 Dead isn’t really about killing zombies. What it’s about, at least according to Valve’s Mike Booth, ...

By Susan ArendtMarch 27, 2009

News

GDC 2009: Liveblogging the Hideo Kojima Keynote

Design legend Hideo Kojima is this morning’s keynote at GDC. Let’s liveblog! 10:30 — The topic of the keynote is Solid Game Design: ...

By Susan ArendtMarch 26, 2009

GDC 2009

GDC 2009: Game Designers and Sex

The theme for this year’s Game Design Challenge was enough to make a game designer blush: the first time they had sex. Every ...

By Susan ArendtMarch 26, 2009

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