Chris Rio Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

The Morality System in Games Has Outlived Its Usefulness

Editor’s Note: The following contains slight spoilers for BioShock, Mass Effect, Fallout, inFamous, and Fable, but honestly those games are pretty old by ...

By Chris Rio Legacy AuthorApril 17, 2014

Why Games Will Only Get Cheaper

One of the first MMOs, a game called Island of Kesmai, charged users $12 to play online. It featured a sprawling virtual fantasy ...

By Chris Rio Legacy AuthorAugust 2, 2013

The Stupid History of Downloadable Games

Today we take downloadable content for granted. After all, rumors have been circulating that the next generation of hardware might not even have ...

By Chris Rio Legacy AuthorFebruary 13, 2013