Allen Varney Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Import/Export

Serious Cro

Wait… Clowns? I’m shooting clowns? Is this a joke? Clowns – throwing explosive pies, no less. And that martial arts master! He’s so ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorOctober 25, 2005

The Firm

The Conquest of Origin

“Trip Hawkins is the Antichrist.”The scene: a bar at a gaming convention in the late 1980s. The speaker: an executive at the computer ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorOctober 11, 2005

Why Haven't They Made This?

The Buzz is Gone

BUZZZZZZZ! Where are you, Buzz Aldrin? I’m playing your old 1993 Interplay game, Buzz Aldrin’s Race Into Space (BARIS), about the 1960s U.S.-Soviet ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorOctober 4, 2005

The Gamemasters

Our Games Are Built On Paper

IN THE BEGINNING – which is to say, 1974 – there were E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, two tabletop miniatures gamers in ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorSeptember 6, 2005

Dungeons & Dollars

Casual Fortunes

Which American designer personally made the most money last year from computer games he or she designed? Not the most money for a ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 30, 2005

Classical Studies

READ GAME

> GO WEST Living Room You are in the living room. There is a door to the east, a wooden door with strange ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 23, 2005

Grand Theft Adaptation

Licensing: Live With It

“The biggest names in Hollywood want to get into games,” says Warren Spector. “Movies aren’t showing double-digit annual growth any more, the way ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 16, 2005

Fast Forward 2020

Posted 02 August 2020 18:30 to category Shopgames by worldbuyerRelated categories: RFID, GPS, Social networking, Loyalty clubs ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. Today I finally changed shopgames. ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 9, 2005

It's Your Game

Player-Prompted Paranoia

I didn’t know it at the time, but in late February 2004, I was Rick Jones. There’s probably tens of thousands of Rick ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorAugust 2, 2005

Who's Playing

Gamer Nation

Envision an alternate reality we might call “Gamer America.” In Gamer America, every home and office has 20MB/s broadband that’s cheaper than milk. ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJuly 26, 2005

Gaming on the Go

The Escapist on Greg Gorden

An Elder Scrolls game on a cellphone? It sounds like painting landscapes on rice grains. The most famous roleplaying games (RPGs) in Bethesda ...

By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorJuly 19, 2005

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