Christian Ward Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Going Gold

A Bad Week in the Mushroom Kingdom

As Activision’s Bobby Kotick is finding out, the games industry loves to pick on the big guy. For most of this decade the ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorNovember 5, 2009

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Behind the Curtain

Why are there 27 identical guitar games, but no Shenmue 3? There are some very simple reasons why the games industry doesn’t work ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorOctober 21, 2009

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Manufacturing Discontent

Perhaps it is just gaming’s silly season – post-E3 and pre-autumn games rush, maybe there was just nothing else to talk about. Or ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorSeptember 23, 2009

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Ten Things I Hate About You, Gaming

Crunch time, a bizarre but necessary fact of life in the games industry, is not conducive to turning an article in to a ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorSeptember 9, 2009

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Going Gold: It Just Feels Right

I had always thought that the hate directed at motion controls stemmed from irrational fanboyism – the usual “It’s not on my console ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorAugust 26, 2009

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Going Gold: Talking to Ourselves

Was it me, or did most of us seem to collectively ignore the sequel to the biggest-selling single-platform videogame of all time? Wii ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorAugust 12, 2009

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Going Gold: No Pleasing Some People

I often wonder why gamers, myself included, always seem to be so unhappy. There seems to be far more complaining than discussion or ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorJuly 15, 2009

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Preaching to the Choir

The usage of the terms “casual” and “core” have split into three different divisions, each of which will cater to different types of ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorJuly 1, 2009

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Poetry in Motion

With Sony and Microsoft finally showing off their own motion-based controllers at E3, we can at last put away the waggle jokes and ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorJune 17, 2009

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The Big Tease

Publishers will do anything, including annoying people with endless countdown clocks, to hype a title’s announcement. But does all this effort actually make ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorJune 3, 2009

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Is the Play the Thing?

It’s a thankless lot in life being a gamer who cares about stories in games. With the rare exception of companies like Bioware, ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorMay 20, 2009

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The Conventional Wisdom

Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. Nobody buys games on the PSP (except for the 2.3 million copies of ...

By Christian Ward Legacy AuthorMay 6, 2009

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