http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/escapist http://kotaku.com/tag/escapist According to their Twitter updates, LulzSec has launched DDoS attacks—either on purpose or as a side effect of a mass hack attempt—that has taken down EVE Online, Escapist magazine, and Minecraft, proving conclusively that they hate everyone equally. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5811827&view=rss&microfeed=true Yes, it's from last week, but we were busy, so didn't get around to it. So enjoy it now, like cold, leftover pizza for breakfast. You know the drill: Yahtzee plays Alone in the Dark, Yahtzee plays the critic while making the game's faults seem far funnier than they actually are. And a lot funnier than the new intro/outro music, which seems specifically engineered to be as unsuitable as humanly possible. More »
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Yahtzee Croshaw is my hero. Having been discovered by The Escapist via his "Fully Ramblomatic" reviews of Fable: The Lost Chapters and the PS3 demo of The Darkness. He's a British-born writer living in Australia whose flash animations were among the best things on YouTube and now, by extension, The Escapist. This week in their Zero Punctuation segment he manages to cover everything I wanted to cover in my stories on the miniature Heavenly Sword(s) demo and Resident Evil 5 racism, only much more amusing than I could ever hope to be. I hate him. I love him. Just go look for yourself, and report back to me your findings. More »
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With the question of "Are video games art? Can they be art?" being something of a hot issue in recent years, it's always interesting to see how "art for art's sake" and a profit-driven enterprise like, well, video games mash together occasionally. This week's Escapist Magazine has an interesting article entitled "Limit and Measure: Welcome to the World of Art Mods". Something of a cross between (frequently wacky) performance art and run of the mill mods that many people add to their games, art mods More »
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Normally we're not the types to link to navel gazing, incestual circle jerks where game journalists talk about the state of gaming journalism. It's normally just so tired. All that self important introspection that no one but game journalists care about? It really wears you out. More »
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Perhaps the most obnoxious element about the occasional Escapist article concerning the misogynistic subjugation of females by game devs is the nagging suspicion the reader gets that the author is only writing it in a misguided attempt to get laid. As if a few hundred words of simpering apologetics about the fact that men actually find busty polygonal women in spandex attractive is going to make female gamers the world over see the author's sensitive soul through his pale, flabby shell. More »
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As all Kotaku readers know, Second Life is the virtual world most famous for finally allowing Wagner James Au to experience the semblance of getting laid. But what would he have done if Second Life had never been created? To what game would WJA and Second Life's panoply of virtual prostitutes flocked then? More »
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I love the fact that gaming apparel has quietly slipped from geek wear to chic wear. OK, maybe not chic, but it was the only fashion word I could think of that rhymed with geek. Kyle Orland, of Video Game Media Watch, wrote an interesting story about the rising mainstream popularity of geek fashion for the Escapist a few weeks back. The best part is that he quoted are very own weekend editor Michael McWhertor, who also runs Geek on Stun. More »
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