A great resource

So a while ago I stumbled upon the website known as the Escapist. It is in essence a web magazine featuring video games and related pop culture. It has the usual game reviews and massive library of trailers and teasers, but there was one thing the truly stuck out to me.

Its within the Escapists webisode library, it is a series called Extra Credits. Extra Credits looks at video games from a different perspective, the perspective of not only a designer but looking at it like someone would look at and analyze a piece of artwork. What they do on Extra Credits is something very similare to what I was to do with this blog. Look at and analyze video games in a mature manner looking at is as an artform rather then a toy. The guys over at Extra Credits are very experianced in the industry and can offer some great insight for those who think video games are more then a toy (which they are most certainly not toys).