Every week, we publish our Letters to the Editor – the best comments and responses we’ve received regarding the previous week’s issue, taken ...

Revisit the crude progenitor of one of gaming’s global mega-franchises, and you’re left with feelings of nostalgia, fondness … and bewilderment, too. The ...

We need more romance novelists making games. I recently picked up To Tempt a Scotsman by Victoria Dahl, an up-and-coming U.S. romance writer. ...

I write this article – my first for The Escapist in over a year – with a troubled mind. Much has changed in ...

I recently had the chance for an in-game tour of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, Turbine’s redesigned free-to-play game. My tour guides ...

I began this “button smashing” series by stating that, while statistics are the basic foundation for MMO combat, over reliance on them has ...

Collectible card games have traditionally frightened me. If asked in a social situation, I’d say it’s because of the money sink involved, but ...

Sony’s PlayStation brand dominated the video game world for a decade. It started as a joint venture with Nintendo, but when Nintendo’s Howard ...

In 1963, The Beatles released Please Please Me, which spent 30 weeks at the #1 spot on the charts. The young men from ...

Welcome to Alt+Escape, our weekly pick of browser-based games to help you start your weekend a little early. Check back each Friday for ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] It’s kind of odd having a character with a catch-phrase of “I hate X”, and even stranger that his hatred of all ...

Funcom is launching a new drive to bring players back into Age of Conan by offering two weeks of reactivation. Devs want players ...