When I began writing about videogames a decade ago, I was like any other videogame fan. I was excited about the idea of ...

I began my professional association with The Escapist in 2006, at which point I had already been writing about videogames for more than ...

“You still play videogames?” It is a question with far more inferred by the tone than the meanings of the words themselves can ...

Fair warning – spoilers to follow. As Modern Warfare 2 breaks retail records, the focus inevitably turns toward the predictable controversy of a ...

I am a delusional relic. I am a PC gamer, and I have believed for too long in an unassailable valve of my ...

You can tell a boycott worked because nobody is happy with the results when it ends. I was, and remain, relatively scornful of ...

Near my suburban home is a traffic light. Every day, I sit at this traffic light as it invariably turns red just as ...

It is accurate to say that well into my baby-twenties I was not what one thought of as a traditional gamer. I was ...

It is dark and dank, and I hear something scuttle in the darkness. The last auburn glow of heat from the smoldering barrel ...

Were I to pinpoint my apex of gaming ability, it would be just shy of ten years ago, at the height of Counter-Strike’s ...

Boggling at the ongoing feud between Activision and Brütal Legend as it enters its latest circus tent of bad blood and sour grapes, ...

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 ...