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The Escapist regularly runs content discussing the growth of gaming as a medium. Typical debates are over whether games can be insightful enough to qualify as art or how gaming communities compare to traditional social groups such as athletic teams, hobby clubs, and other groups that form around...

SMCMCraft is a project sponsored by St. Mary?s College of Maryland and approved by the college's institutional review board. The project revolves around the use of a Minecraft server as an experimental testing environment. The study requires a number of volunteer participants who play on the...

DEAR MARKETING AND FINANCE DEPARTMENTS OF THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY, Valve made it work for Team Fortress 2. Blizzard sort of made it work for World of Warcraft. However! Please stop taking these two, very specific and very unusual cases as proof that randomly chucking micro-transaction stores...

Hangover 2 Do you feel that The Hangover needed to be remade with an identical plot but more penis? No? Me neither, don't watch this shit.

What will survive is the content, but it will be accessible from a variety of sources, be it your TV screen, desktop screen, or whatever other screens you happen to own. Games will be divided by the software a company produces instead of their hardware. In the future, Steam, XBLA, PSN and...

Try and find a console game that is more expensive on steam.

so, everyone has seen the dancing imp ipod ad at the end of most escapist videos? well, I really want that video for phone/desktop/whatever other electronic screens I have available.

Germany.

What about Mafia II? There were some damned good characters in that one. Or Amnesia, that guy was pretty rounded out by the end.

I think this hypothetical game would be easier to make and better if you modded an existing 3D game rather than building a 2D one from scratch. Source or GECK could be good.

space marine, fps, bullshit macho shooter

myst!

Black and white for sure, an all powerful being would be awesome, and since you're not totally invincible, things would never get boring. Having your temple destroyed and getting banished to the void for eternity would suck though. btw, the modern warfare 2 universe? seriously!? Why don't you...