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The Escapist‘s Bold Experiment
I can admit, now, that I thought the whole project doomed. An online-only magazine for cutting-edge game writing, published by a Harvard lawyer ...
Editor's Note
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As I write this, members of Team Escapist are preparing to celebrate our hard-won 5th birthday by running around shooting each other with ...
Letters to the Editor
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In response to “Kieron Gillen Post Manifesto” from The Escapist Forum: In 2004 Kieron Gillen was writing for PC Gamer UK, which around ...
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Loaded and Ready to Run
As the light fades and a teenage girl talks at her friend about her position on nanobot-assisted metabolism in the far future (and ...
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You Asked, We Answered
Some of the staff here at The Escapist have a big presence on the forums, and we try to communicate with you guys ...
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Zero Punctuation: Achieving the Cross-media Transformation of Ludological Hermeneutics
Critical analysis of interactive entertainment has heretofore been the bailiwick of an elite caste of self-appointed ministers of quality who use faux-numerical quantitative ...
Stolen Pixels
Stolen Pixels #209: Please Let Me Arrest You
[folder_nav][folder_nav] I think my family got the impression Resident Evil 5 was some sort of voice-activated game based on how much time I ...
View From the Road
View from the Road: The Big Goodbye
In case you missed the news, the WoW: Cataclysm beta test is now under way, which means that I now begin the long ...
SCIENCE!
Science!: ROBOFISH
Vigorous Mating Displays Enhance Bird Fertility Mating displays aren’t just for show – how well a bird can strut its stuff directly affects ...
Game People Calling
Game People Calling: Board Gamers: The New Hardcore
I’m as avid a gamer as the next man. But I’m still impressed, and a little shocked, by how much time some of ...
Experienced Points
Arr Pee Gee
Last week I again complained about what a mess the term “RPG” is. I can’t think of another genre label that is as ...