Publisher's Note
When You Review A Game of Thrones, You Win or Die.
It seems to be the fate of great fantasy fiction to first be ridiculed, and then years later be re-considered as powerful allegory ...
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Fudge Factor
Every time a gamemaster picks up the dice, he is toying with fate – the fate of the players, the fate of the ...
Stolen Pixels
Stolen Pixels #252: Tutorialized
[folder_nav] [folder_nav] The tutorial for Homefront is a micro-managing tyrant, with very strict ideas about what you need to do in order to ...
Editor's Note
The Nintendo Issue
I admit it; I was a latecomer to the Nintendo phenomenon. Despite having played games since I was sat down as a five ...
Letters to the Editor
The Nintendo Issue
In response to “No Later Than Monday” from The Escapist forums:agreed as far as AAA gaming is concerned, but think about what $7 ...
The Nintendo Issue
Ocarina of Timelines
Chronology isn’t usually a big deal in videogames; timelines tend to go in one direction – forwards – and each game in a ...
The Nintendo Issue
The World in a Chain Chomp
Everything that makes Super Mario Bros. 3 truly special is exemplified, for me, by a single image: A chain chomp breaking free of ...
The Nintendo Issue
The Perfect Puffball
The majority of Nintendo’s flagship crew is easily describable: The plumbers. The ape. The elven hero. Then there’s the cheerful pink ball (blob? ...