News
Kaz Hirai Hopes for Profitable PlayStation 3 in 2008
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai has expressed hope the PlayStation 3 will become profitable for his company in its next fiscal year, based on ...
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McDonald’s Boss Says Videogames Are Making Kids Fat
Steve Easterbrook, Chief Executive Officer of McDonalds U.K., has suggested that the advent of videogames is responsible for the explosion of childhood obesity ...
Editorials
Editorial: The Year The Subscription Model Died
World of Warcraft When people remember 2007 in the MMORPG genre, it will be remembered as much for what didn’t happen as what ...
News
Sid Meier to Receive Game Developers Choice Lifetime Achievement Award
Renowned game designer Sid Meier will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards, taking place at ...
News
Gearbox Establishes Fellows Scholars Program at The Guildhall at SMU
To help satisfy the growing need for highly-trained videogame developers, Gearbox Software has pledged almost $50,000 to help establish the Fellows Scholars program ...
News
Take Two Acquires Illusion Softworks
Take Two continues to expand its in-house development facilities, adding Czech Republic-based developer Illusion Softworks to its stable. The development studio, which employs ...
Reviews
Review: Duck Amuck (Nintendo DS)
I’m still trying to piece together what just happened. I received Duck Amuck in the mail from The Escapist Central today. Instead of ...
Editor's Note
Everyday Gamer
Every week for the past 130 weeks, The Escapist has delivered high-caliber content about videogames, videogamers and videogame culture. Over the past year ...
Letters to the Editor
Everyday Gamer
In response to “Dawn of Games” from The Escapist Forum: When we talk about these games, aren’t we essentially talking about school? I ...
Everyday Gamer
Team Butts
I love videogames. I play videogames every single day, unless I’ve gone temporarily blind yet again from too much Mountain Dew Baja Blast. ...
Everyday Gamer
A Day in the Life of the Social Loner
I wake up at 8:30 a.m. on a rainy Saturday morning in November. No alarm has gone off; my girlfriend, sleeping next to ...
