1.0The Escapisthttps://www.escapistmagazine.comLogan Westbrook Legacy Authorhttps://www.escapistmagazine.com/author/loganwestbrook/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="rebcwWN72w"><a href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/getting-inside-the-so-called-myths-of-gaming/">Getting Inside the So-Called Myths of Gaming</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/getting-inside-the-so-called-myths-of-gaming/embed/#?secret=rebcwWN72w" width="600" height="338" title="“Getting Inside the So-Called Myths of Gaming” — The Escapist" data-secret="rebcwWN72w" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> Some of the things you know about the videogame industry are wrong. Not all of them, but more than you’d think. Some myths are pretty darn nifty, like Hercules, who punched the Nemean Lion to death and then made a snazzy cape out of him, or Thor, who tooled around Midgard beating up trolls and dragons with a magic hammer. Videogame myths, on the other hand, are rather lackluster by comparison, and rather than casting us as heroes, make us seem like weird troglodytes that at any moment might go on a murderous rampage. Thankfully, our myths are more easily […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/38/38469.png