Colin Rowsell Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Anti/Villain

What Hulk Hogan Taught Videogames

The worlds of sport and entertainment owe many debts to professional wrestling. Pro wrestling was never bound by the rules of athletics or ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorJuly 13, 2010

Once Upon A Time

Your Job Is to Fall In Love

Your job, he said, is to fall in love. Everything else is just detail. It wasn’t what I expected to hear. The rest ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2010

Beam Me Up, Scotty

Get a Life

If Star Trek has any relevance left, it’s not in NASA visions, alien linguistics or the idea that life would be just peachy ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorSeptember 1, 2009

e-volution

A Risk of Romance

We need more romance novelists making games. I recently picked up To Tempt a Scotsman by Victoria Dahl, an up-and-coming U.S. romance writer. ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorJuly 14, 2009

Off the Grid

SHAMAN

The present day, somewhere else. The basement’s dark. The hot chocolate’s cold. The only sound is her hands tapping away at the keyboard. ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorMarch 17, 2009

Monsters and Mistletoe

The Family Gathering Survival Kit

The first family holiday gathering took place on Thanksgiving Day in 11,292 B.C. Og and Sush, a young couple from the West Stonelands, ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorDecember 2, 2008

Industry Negligence

Pixels and Picket Lines

When Barack Obama’s campaign purchased videogame advertising in the run-up to the November 4 election, many saw it as a sign of tactical ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2008

The Great and Powerful

Character Creation

When Miles came into this world he had a ready-made fan club. The first-born child among a circle of friends, all of us ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorOctober 21, 2008

Going it Alone

Sidhe’s the One

A Sidhe is an earthen mound where mythical beings live. It’s also an independent New Zealand videogame company that’s moved away from the ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorAugust 5, 2008

sEx

Tijuana Time

I’ve been deep in the trenches of a writing project for the past few months. The pages keep rolling by, the characters are ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorJuly 29, 2008

Gaming Uber Alles, Year Three

Love Sucks and Then You Evolve

“This is television, my friend. The big time. The hoo-rah. You’ve made it. And it’s all because of those videogames.” Wow, thanks – ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorJuly 8, 2008

Geek Culture

How To Bite The Head Off a Chicken

I have no idea about “geek culture,” unless it’s something to do with decapitating poultry. In old-time traveling carnivals, the geek would chase ...

By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorMay 27, 2008

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