The Irvine, CA campus where the various Blizzard teams work on Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo is pretty much Nerd Heaven - and here are more than a hundred photos from behind its gates.

  Why don't RPGs have decent in-game economies?

  MovieBob gives his two cents on the Roman Polanski affair.

  With this month's issue of Game Informer comes the long-awaited preview of Warren Spector's "Epic Mickey" project, and we finally get a look at Disney's iconic Mouse going back to his roots.

  A former employee with the U.S. Postal Service has admitted that he stole 2200 GameFly games over a six-month stretch in 2008.

  BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 2 will hit North American store shelves on January 26, with some unique bonus loot for gamers who pre-order.

  We here at The Escapist would never advocate the willful destruction of legal tender, but it doesn't make these examples any less entertaining.

  This is why you don't give military robots sentience, people.

  According to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, few things make the Modern Warfare developer want to Hulk out more than rabid console fanboys.

  Digital distribution may be the coming thing but industry analyst Ben Schnachter predicts that major retailers like GameStop won't begin to feel the crunch for a long time yet - 2017, to be exact.

  MovieBob kills the misinformation on Where the Wild Things Are.

  Only the PC version of Dragon Age: Origins will offer the top-down "Baldur's Gate-style" viewpoint, something to bear in mind if you still haven't decided which platform to go with.