Brendan Main Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

BFG

The Shadow and The Sword

You have a sword, a bow, and a horse. That’s it. These are the tools you are given in Shadow of the Colossus, ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorOctober 19, 2010

I Like To Move It

I Punch the Body Electric

To listen to the hype surrounding Sony’s Move and Microsoft’s Kinect, motion control is poised to become all things to all people. This ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorOctober 12, 2010

Second Banana

Hey, Listen, I Like Navi

Hey. Listen. Sidekicks, by their very nature, are unappreciated. They do all the heavy lifting, while some square-jawed schmuck hogs the spotlight. There ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2010

Cataclysm

Gnomeward Bound

Everything is in place. A platoon of soldiers stands side by side in the snow, their weapons at the ready. A host of ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorAugust 17, 2010

Back to the Drawing Board

Year of the Dragon’s Lair

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A game is released that’s so cutting edge, so revolutionary, that people question whether it should ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorJune 8, 2010

The Way of the Future

Our Turn to Decide

No games writing sticks in my craw worse than the assertion that the medium is somehow “still in its infancy.” You probably have ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorMay 4, 2010

Uphill, Both Ways

Youth Eternal

One of the oldest rules in advertising is that you don’t sell a product – you sell an idea. Sometimes that idea is ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorApril 27, 2010

The Fanfiction Issue

Hooking Up in Hyperspace

Kirk and Spock had it easy. Out there, in the cold expanse of the final frontier. Drawn together as they explored strange new ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorApril 13, 2010

Zerg Rush

Only Zerg Rush In

You’ve got to hand it to the Zerg: They’ve made their mark in videogame history. StarCraft‘s brood of ichor-dripping space bugs have come ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorApril 6, 2010

I Know Kung Fu

Legend of the Drunken Mashter

I’ve always thought of fighting games as the truest representation of kung-fu within gaming, and not just because they involve characters beating the ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorMarch 23, 2010

Good Eats

Mama to the Rescue

A couple of years ago, I bit off more than I could chew. I had been offered a spot in a brand-new doctoral ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2010

We Built This City

Stripping Down the Nude Mod

Since people have been playing games, they’ve found inventive ways to do it naked. In ancient Greece, sports were performed in the buff: ...

By Brendan Main Legacy AuthorJanuary 26, 2010

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