Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now At a certain point in BioShock 2, ...

One year ago, my inaugural Second Look piece on 2K Marin’s The Bureau: XCOM Declassified went up. I’d just moved over to The Escapist from editing on another website. It was an adjustment, but my how ...

I'm catching up to my backlog and I just beat Bioshock 1. I loved it. I own both Bioshock 2 and Infinite. A friend of mine suggested I skip Bioshock 2, because he said a different studio/development ...

It’s not controversial to say that BioShock is one of the most influential first-person shooter franchises of all time.