Andy Chalk Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Design a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Quest, Win a Contest

GSC Game World is giving creative S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans an opportunity to see their best ideas put to use in the upcoming post-Chernobyl shooter ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2010

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Playdom Designer Urges Social Devs to Make “Unanticipated Golden Poo”

Game designer and former Escapist columnist Scott Jon Siegel challenged his fellow designers to “stop pretending social games are beneath you,” saying that ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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Call of Duty Endowment Giving Away Free Black Ops

Activision is giving away two free copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops every day during a 25-day awareness campaign being held by ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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Rock Band Developer Harmonix Put Up For Sale

Viacom has seen the writing on the wall and put the once-untouchable Rock Band developer Harmonix up for sale. There was a time ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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Black Ops Beats MW2 in Launch Day Sales

Activision says Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new heavyweight champion in launch day sales, knocking out the record set last year ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

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Artemis: Multiplayer Mayhem on a Starship Bridge

Here’s a ultra-cool twist on multiplayer gaming: Artemis Starship Bridge Simulator, a co-op LAN game for up to six players that proves that ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

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Cuba Criticizes Call of Duty: Black Ops

Cuba’s state-run media has strongly criticized Call of Duty: Black Ops for portraying an attempted assassination of Fidel Castro, claiming that it glorifies ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

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Is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Coming to Prime-Time?

S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the vicious Ukrainian FPS set in the “exclusion zone” around the ruined Chernobyl nuclear power plant, may be getting its own television ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

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Columnist Calls Black Ops Ad “Twisted”

The debate over Activision’s “Soldier in All of Us” ad continues to swirl as a columnist for The Atlantic calls it a “twisted ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

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Pretend Property Sells for $335,000 in Real Money

A new world record for the most expensive virtual item purchase of all time has been set by an Entropia Universe player who ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

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Kevin Butler Brings PSN Video Delivery to the Canadese

Sony Vice President of Yes We Canada Kevin Butler is advising Canadese people everywhere to hold on to their mustaches, because the PlayStation ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

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Australian News Site Makes Hilarious Star Trek Apology

The Australian site News.com.au has issued a five-alarm apology to Star Trek fans incensed over a “poorly-researched” article, acknowledging that there were many ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorNovember 9, 2010

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