Jim Rossignol Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Season's Gamings

Christmas Eve

As a younger man I was a humbug. I hated Christmas and found plenty of excuses to participate in it as little as ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorDecember 8, 2009

The Front

A View From the Trenches

In April of 2008, I went to Moscow to visit KRI, the games convention for the Commonwealth of Independent States (largely made up ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorNovember 3, 2009

I, Robot

A Brief History Of Artificial Life

A mechanical monk in the court of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1560: a miraculous construction of clockwork, carved wood and lacquer. A ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorOctober 27, 2009

Make Your Own Fun

The Virtua Corps

One of the finer pleasures of being a journalist who spends too much time in the depths of PC gaming is the number ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorJanuary 29, 2008

Editor's Choice

Cog in the Machine

What if games could do something practical while they entertain us? What if by playing games you weren’t simply entertaining yourself and others, ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorNovember 20, 2007

On a Pale Horse

Worlds from The Zone

Few games are as bleak as GSC Game World’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Then again, few games have appropriated the mythology, psychology and ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2007

Editor's Choice

Formula Futurist

Futuristic racers seem to embody something essential about videogames: fluid, neuron-firing challenges for our coordination and dexterity, explosions of color that meld high-concept ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorApril 24, 2007

Block Party

Deathmatch-making

Richard and I sat on opposite sides of a huge mahogany desk. In his world, he was a success. He had been the ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorNovember 21, 2006

Editor's Choice

World, Interrupted

In the past few years, PC game journalism has been dominated by one thing: the sheer amount of time it takes to play ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorOctober 24, 2006

Ubisoft: Ubi, Uber, Uni

Green-Eyed Grrl

Of all the female protagonists who now inhabit the landscape of gaming, there is one who stands apart: Jade, the central character in ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorAugust 15, 2006

The Little Guy

Good For the Soul

Surprising English poet William Blake probably wasn’t talking about developing videogames when he said, “I must create a system, or be enslaved by ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorMay 9, 2006

Griefer Nation

A Deadly Dollar

The griefer is a player of malign intentions. They will hurt, humiliate and dishevel the average gamer through bending and breaking the rules ...

By Jim Rossignol Legacy AuthorNovember 15, 2005

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