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I still remember the launch of The Escapist. It was so different with its styling and content, sort of an online version of the Edge magazine. Alas that didn't

• loudandskittish 9y ago
  I want to comment on and lament the loss of the "good old days," but I'm biased; I wrote several articles for them. They paid more than pretty much any other online only publication and were not only receptive to, but outright encouraged cold queries.
• rodgerd 9y ago
  It was odd to watch them do a hard turn from applying more thoughtful analysis of games and gaming culture to hopping on the GamerGate train. I assume that didn't pan out for them as they'd hoped.
  • Lazare 9y ago
    Oh, so that's what happened to them. I recall seeing some really good content from them a while back, but it never was quite good enough that I'd go there explicitly to check them out. Then without really realizing it, I stopped seeing links to their content, and sort of forgot they'd ever existed. Some quick googling shows why: They'd gone totally off the deep end. What a baffling way for them to end. I wonder if it was just a (very ill-advised) tactic to try and boost traffic, or if the owner/editors were actually true believers?
• kibwen 9y ago
  It's funny because in retrospect their paginated, dual-column, tiny-viewport UI is the sort of unresponsive skeumorphism that we make fun of today. At the time though it absolutely did lend it a certain air of professionalism, by deliberately styling itself after magazines to elevate it above the emerging gamer-blog tabloids (one of which, in full disclosure, I was paid to populate).