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I always root for the bad guys. Watching movies, reading comic books or what have you, the set-up always seem the same: Some ...

The worlds of sport and entertainment owe many debts to professional wrestling. Pro wrestling was never bound by the rules of athletics or ...

In response to “Zero Punctuation: Achieving the Cross-media Transformation of Ludological Hermeneutics” from The Escapist Forum: I have to say, I couldn’t tell ...

Imagine a game without a final boss. Not just a strategy game or a social game or something that usually doesn’t have a ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] True story. Fun fact about me: I actually can’t grow facial hair. Maybe I just need to give it more time? I ...

Forget Albert Wesker. Forget Saren. Forget Shang Tsung and the entire Sith lord chorus-line. In number of kills, blood-boiling frustration caused and sheer ...

There are very few great villains in videogames. There are lots of great boss battles, sure, but a boss battle and a villain ...

The title for this week’s column is, of course, a reference to the theme song for beloved 80s sitcom Cheers. In the context ...

The Brain Is a Noisy Place The human brain is capable of processing 100 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent of 100 teraflops ...

It’s become a tradition here at The Escapist to do a “Five Favorites” roundup at the end of the year, where each of ...

We game reviewers like to think of ourselves as experts, but in fact that’s kind of impossible. We can be experts in something ...