It’s officially StarCraft week at The Escapist, which means that in addition to clocking a couple hours each night with the StarCraft II ...

It’s easy to take it for granted that you’re a gamer. Over the years, you’ve probably spent tens of thousands of hours mastering ...

God of War III is a special kind of spectacle. Plowing through it in a couple unbroken four-hour sessions last week, I experienced ...

Game journalists love their shorthand when it comes to describing games. Take the classic example of “X game meets Y game.” Fallout meets ...

This is the main event, folks. Last week, one of the world’s biggest publishers of electronic entertainment, Electronic Arts, released a game that ...

Let’s face it: In games journalism, there aren’t too many opportunities for real reporting. It’s relatively easy for games journalists to share their ...

“Hi. My name is Jordan, and I’m a recovering Command & Conquer player.” That’s how I’d introduce myself to each of my StarCraft ...

Count me as an early skeptic of BioShock 2‘s “Rapture Civil War” multiplayer mode. When 2K announced it at E3 last year, I ...

This article contains potentially significant spoilers about Mass Effect 2. Read at your own risk. After about 24 hours of play in the ...

I’m no iconoclast. Unlike a certain other Escapist editor, I barely managed to go a full week before caving to the hype and ...

Since this week is The Escapist‘s Indie Developer Showcase, I’ve been thinking a lot about indie games and the people who make them. ...

Where do you draw the line between fan-service and creative expression, between marketing ploy and genuine artistic statement, between pandering and just playing ...