Allen Varney Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Op-Ed

From the Vault: In 3-D

Every “three-dimensional” game you play is a pussy. On your flatscreen TV or monitor, your so-called 3-D game presents nothing but an illusion ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorApril 6, 2011

Good to be Bad, Again

World of New Darkness

Remember where you were when the dark world ended, that fateful day in 2004? You know, when Ravanna – the Antediluvian vampire who ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 28, 2007

Connecting the Dots

London in Oblivion

Poor Frank Lloyd Wright. America’s best-loved architect just couldn’t design a deathmatch level. Take his famous 1939 Kaufmann house, better known as Fallingwater. ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 7, 2007

Editor's Choice

Pinball Revived

After decades of decline in hopeless competition with videogames, pinball has found refuge on the web. Fans sell weighty multi-volume pinball histories and ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJuly 31, 2007

Dark and Stormy Night

Murder Parties

Murder mystery party games have brought roleplaying to the masses. How to Host a Murder, Murder in a Box, Host a Murder Mystery, ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2007

Pens, Paper and Pretzels

Richard Garfield

Every hardcore Magic: The Gathering player knows the story behind the trading card game’s rarest card. In 1993, Magic designer Richard Garfield planned ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJuly 10, 2007

MMOG Gold Rush

The Korean Invasion

Since the North American debut of NCsoft’s Lineage II in 2004, South Korean game publishers have launched, or are now launching, well over ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJune 26, 2007

Moon Chases Sun

Cthulhu: Why so difficult?

It shouldn’t be so hard – though it seems, by all evidence, terrifyingly hard – to create computer games based on the Cthulhu ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJune 19, 2007

Cutscenes at 11

Blowing Up Galaxies

In November 2005, Sony Online Entertainment drastically revised its licensed Star Wars Galaxies massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) with a sprawling package of ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJune 12, 2007

Edu-gaming 2

Biz Sims

The biggest game I ever designed had 100 players and 10 referees, lasted three days and got covered in The Wall Street Journal. ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorMay 29, 2007

Reach Out

LEGO Games

Since 1958, The LEGO Group has sold over 300 billion plastic toy building bricks, an average of 52 bricks for every person in ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorMay 15, 2007

Still Street Fighting After All These Years

Street Fighting USA

Puny reader! Your feeble willpower is as nothing to my limitless skill in stylish browbeating! Submit, and read this masterful article on Capcom’s ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorMay 8, 2007

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