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Tag: press released

press released
Press Released

Gaming is Made of People

When I began writing about videogames a decade ago, I was like any other videogame fan. I was excited about the idea of ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorDecember 27, 2009
Press Released

Who’s Got Next?

I began my professional association with The Escapist in 2006, at which point I had already been writing about videogames for more than ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorDecember 12, 2009
Press Released

Happiness is a Warm Controller

“You still play videogames?” It is a question with far more inferred by the tone than the meanings of the words themselves can ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorNovember 29, 2009
Press Released

Poking the Hornet?s Nest

Fair warning – spoilers to follow. As Modern Warfare 2 breaks retail records, the focus inevitably turns toward the predictable controversy of a ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorNovember 14, 2009
Press Released

Altered Allegiance

I am a delusional relic. I am a PC gamer, and I have believed for too long in an unassailable valve of my ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorNovember 1, 2009
Press Released

Come Together. Right Now.

You can tell a boycott worked because nobody is happy with the results when it ends. I was, and remain, relatively scornful of ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorOctober 18, 2009
Press Released

Death of a Know-It-All

Near my suburban home is a traffic light. Every day, I sit at this traffic light as it invariably turns red just as ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorOctober 4, 2009
Press Released

Adult Themes

It is accurate to say that well into my baby-twenties I was not what one thought of as a traditional gamer. I was ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorSeptember 6, 2009
Press Released

Press Released: Plugged Into the Past

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 ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorAugust 9, 2009
Op-Ed

Press Released: The Golden Age

The troubles and turmoil of the gaming industry seem never-ending. It is easy to be relentlessly negative about the state of an industry ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorSeptember 5, 2008
Editorials

Press Released: The Laughing Of Corporate Hyenas

Ask industry professionals who are the biggest parasites in the videogame industry and you might get a surprising answer. It may not be ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorAugust 25, 2008
Op-Ed

Press Released: Summer Games

As I catalog the games I’ve played over the summer months, it occurs to me that perhaps these dry gaming seasons aren’t the ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorAugust 11, 2008
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