Joshua Vanderwall Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Study Suggests Aging Apes May Experience Mid-Life Crises

Feelings of depression and regret we might have in common with the apes, though our penchant for sports cars seems to be uniquely ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorNovember 20, 2012

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Consoles Are a “Massive Barrier” for Crysis 3 Development

Crysis 3 developer Crytek had to “rip the engine to pieces” to get it to work on the aging console hardware. In a ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorNovember 20, 2012

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Community Member Creates Musical Tribute to The Escapist

In this arrangement dedicated to all things Escapist, btenkink has certainly touched all the bases. With a daily influx of adorable animal pictures ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorNovember 14, 2012

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“Mutual Combat Laws” Let Superhero Trounce Racist

Unknown to his opponent, Phoenix Jones has “a couple black belts and about 30 cage fights or so” going for him. With police ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorNovember 13, 2012

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LittleBigPlanet Karting Review

Though karting games have come a long way graphically since Super Mario Kart created the karting sub-genre in 1992, the core mechanics of ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorNovember 9, 2012

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Exploring Control Options in Standard

Prior to Return to Ravnica, there wasn’t a lot of Control going on in Standard. With the tempo-oriented [mtg_card=Delver of Secrets] decks dominating ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2012

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Exclusive Q&A With Magic‘s Head Designer

This is Azorius Week, and I had a chance to get a few Azorius-flavored questions answered by none other than Magic Head Designer, ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorOctober 31, 2012

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The New Face of Standard

Results from States 2012 have been documented at this point, and they show a relatively diverse meta, with no one deck dominating the ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorOctober 24, 2012

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Dead or Alive 5 Review

The fighting genre has been dominated for years now by heavy hitters like Street Fighter and Tekken. One thing about the current market ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorOctober 19, 2012

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Lessons From States

While I didn’t take home any prizes from States 2012, I did come away with a significantly better understanding of what’s going on ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorOctober 17, 2012

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Heading Into States

This weekend, October 13th and 14th, the annual State and Provincial Championships will be getting underway. Here we’ll start seeing the newest innovations ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorOctober 10, 2012

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Angry Birds Collides With Star Wars This November

Red Bird and crew head to Tatooine as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Obi-Wan. Last week’s teaser image, showing a light saber-wielding bird, ...

By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorOctober 8, 2012

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