Joe Blancato Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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First Week Ebay 360 Sales Averaged $700 – Why Didn’t I Preorder, Again?

I stumbled upon this Yahoo! News article today, which is reporting that if you bought a 360 off Ebay last November, you paid ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 12, 2005

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We were geeks AEons ago.

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 3, 2005

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We were geeks AEons ago.

A few of us checked out AEon Flux last night. I’ll go out on a limb and guess most of this audience watched ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorDecember 3, 2005

The Home Invasion

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Xbox

Ms. Dark, I PresumeThe Xbox 360 is the first bona fide product of the New Gaming Age. It’s the first gaming device created ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorNovember 29, 2005

Import/Export

Outsourcing to America

It’s the buzzword on every World Trade Organization flier ever created: Globalization. Globalization is the theory that by removing trade restrictions across the ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorOctober 25, 2005

Gamers Get Game

Bustin’ a Groove with PaRappa

I was 13 when Notorious B.I.G. died, in 1997. I was playing a game of nine-ball with my friend. We were watching MTV. ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorOctober 18, 2005

The Firm

Code Union, Code Better

“It was only because he was so numb and beaten himself that Jurgis did not worry more about this. But he never thought ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorOctober 11, 2005

Why Haven't They Made This?

Someday, I’ll Hack the Gibson

It’s your first job of the day. A mid-sized corporation lost a million bucks to a cyber thief, and their bank isn’t providing ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorOctober 4, 2005

Whatever Happened To...

Chasing Phantoms

The internet has turned into the Wild West of a generation. Bullies and gang leaders rule with an iron fist while Good Guys ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorSeptember 27, 2005

Join or Die

Utopian Sedition

For a while there, I was part of an elite search and destroy team. We wore all black, flew without a flag. It ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorSeptember 13, 2005

The Gamemasters

Dungeons and Dreamers

Like founding fathers of entertainment, people such as Steve Jackson, John Carmack, and John Romero blazed a trail of innovation others still follow, ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorSeptember 6, 2005

Dungeons & Dollars

So What’s It Worth to You?

Scene: 12-year-old pudgy kid stands next to lanky, punk 20-year-old cousin. Chinatown, New York City. After running away from the giant waiter from ...

By Joe Blancato Legacy AuthorAugust 30, 2005

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