Brendan Main Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

The Network

I’ve never seen a ghost. I don’t believe in ghosts. But let me tell you a ghost story. I woke up last night ...

Final Fantasy VII is just one of those games I’ll never be done with. You know the type: the kind that sit undisturbed ...

The Family Business

For all their dizzying riches, most stories about the mob end badly for everyone involved. They’re tragedies in the classical sense, where great ...

I, Robot

For all their supposed superior intelligence, robots can be pretty stupid. They may be handy if you need someone to calculate pi to ...

Alphabet Soup

In some ways, “massive” is the perfect word to describe online gaming. It communicates a certain heft – a suggestion that our games ...

Pity the princess – all dressed up, and nowhere to go. While the hero gets to scramble about to his heart’s delight, the ...

Pie in the Face

There’s funny-funny, there’s funny-weird and then there’s Katamari Damacy, a psychedelic swirl of the two. Lots of games can make me chuckle for ...

Digital Doggie Biscuit

Some of my most vivid gaming memories are of Sierra’s King’s Quest, a title I haven’t touched in nearly two decades. King’s Quest ...