In response to “Fifteen More Minutes from The Escapist Forum: Interesting philosophy about the “15 more minutes”, I never thought of it as ...

One of the greatest games I’ve ever played is also one of the least interactive. The environments are pre-rendered and unchanging, and the ...

While other movie directors may peddle low-rent adaptations of videogames to fringe audiences, Paul William Scott Anderson has taken game-inspired movies directly to ...

Choice. Failure states. Interactivity. These separate games from every other art form. If you want static introspection, look at a painting. If you ...

A Hollywood feature film is 110 minutes long. Sure, you’ve seen movies that are shorter (most animation) and longer (Peter Jackson), but you’ve ...

Sunny, 77 degrees, azure blue skies, the coconut scent of Hawaiian Tropic, hotdogs, frothy cold drinks, the crack of a bat, peanuts, cotton ...

Some low-impact Googling will reveal to you that the word “geek” is derived from the old German word “geck,” which meant “fool.” You ...

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

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

This week I’m starting a three part (or perhaps more) series on the archetypal classes of the MMO: DPS, Tank, and Healer. The ...

American Football: It’s just a bunch of cavemen grunting at each other and chasing a ball around. Knitting: Hey genius, why don’t you ...

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 ...