Christian Ward Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Going Gold

Going Gold: New Dimensions

Thank goodness for Roger Ebert. Where would us lesser columnists be without him? Fear not – I am not going to the bang ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorMay 5, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: When It Rains ?

Extensive Heavy Rain spoilers follow. If you haven’t played the game, steer clear. I spend a lot of time in my columns complaining ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorApril 21, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: To Your Heart’s (Downloadable) Content

DLC is the Toyota Prius of the gaming world – for all the talk about it, most of its problems seem to be ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorMarch 24, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: Polar Bears and Penguins

Once upon a time, people used to ask me what type of games I like, and I used to be able to answer ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorMarch 10, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: Why You Need to Buy Heavy Rain

As I write this, I have just finished my first playthrough of Heavy Rain. I have, by turns, felt my heart pounding and ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorFebruary 24, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: Size Doesn’t Matter

Like the editors of Cosmopolitan, we in the games industry have a rather unhealthy obsession with size. We like numbers, and we always ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: Reboots and Rip-offs

The blurb for this column asserts that I write on “the major issues, events and trends that ultimately decide what games end up ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorJanuary 27, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: Gaming Doublespeak

The games industry is beloved of rather unnecessary cool-sounding jargon such as “blast processing,” “parallax scrolling,” and, er, “going gold” for that matter. ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorJanuary 13, 2010

Going Gold

Going Gold: Going Gold’s Purely Arbitrary Games of the Decade

The opinions expressed herein are the private views of the author and are not to be construed as reflecting the views of the ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorDecember 30, 2009

Going Gold

Going Gold: Practicalities Makes Perfect

Perfection’s not quite the big deal it used to be, at least according to the foremost critics of gaming. Eyebrows have been raised ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorDecember 16, 2009

Going Gold

Going Gold: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good hardware launch – three years since the Wii and PS3, four since the ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorDecember 2, 2009

Going Gold

You Get What You Pay For

It seems strange to be here: a week after the biggest gaming launch in history, and still concerned about the future of the ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2009

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