This is the second of a two-part article. Part One is here. Yesterday, I examined the Star Wars fan, trying to assess how ...

I was recently asked, as an assessment of my personality and temperament, “Star Wars or Star Trek?” Time was when this was a ...

So you love Nathan Fillion. Well, sister and/or brother, get in line: So does everyone else. Why? The obvious answer to “Why do ...

Dear Game Maker People, I’ve been purchasing and playing your products since I was very young. I’ve met many of you at various ...

If you had been one of the attendees of this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, you’d be forgiven if you’d failed to ...

Gone are the halcyon days when a fledgling company could release a somewhat fun MMO and hope to turn a huge profit through ...

The recent interview The Escapist conducted with Mike Mearls, D&D Manager for Wizards of the Coast, has provoked a remarkable amount of controversy, ...

There is a product being sold right now called Mafia II. You will need a gaming machine and familiarity with playing games in ...

The past few articles we’ve looked at how much skill is involved in MMO game play compared with simply building the best statistical ...

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

In the previous installment I used the rather obscure occasion of water combat to address the impact of location on battles. Fighting knee ...

Over the past couple months we’ve looked at the three core functions of the MMO: DPS, Tank, and Healer. There are, of course, ...