John Funk Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Science Proves Your Grandma Right About Pop Music

Modern pop is too loud and it all sounds the same. Examining a set of pop music from 1955 (that’s 5 years before ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 27, 2012

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This Smart Garbage Bin Will Catch Your Rubbish

Roomba, eat your heart out. One of the more surprisingly satisfying little things in life is the feeling one gets when sinking a ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 25, 2012

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Conan O’Brien Reviews Minecraft (Poorly)

Behold Coco’s adventures in “Glaucoma World.” Minecraft is perhaps the crowning example of indie game success. It came out of nowhere and hit ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2012

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Dark Knight Rises Shooting Leaves 12 Dead

A 24-year-old accused gunman is in custody. The excitement of a crowd waiting to see the finale to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy turned ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 20, 2012

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There’s a Zombie on Your Chinese Student Choral Group

We don’t want zombies on our Chinese student choral group. PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies has grown popular not only here in the West, ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 13, 2012

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Take a Murdering Tour Through Assassin’s Creed III‘s Boston

From Red Sox to Redcoats. (Who get stabbed.) The makers of Assassin’s Creed III have long talked up how protagonist Connor’s adventures would ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 13, 2012

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Firefly Reunion Special Airing in November

Footage for a one-hour documentary will come from San Diego Comic-Con. Joss Whedon’s short-lived sci-fi Western Firefly turns ten years old this year. ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 12, 2012

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Peter Molyneux Explains His Crazy Curiosity Cube

If you build a £50,000 piece of DLC, they will come. Maybe. Nobody can say that former Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux doesn’t have ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2012

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Planetside 2 Beta (Hopefully) Imminent

The MMOFPS beta depends on the outcome of a tech test. It’s been almost exactly a year since our first official look at ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 10, 2012

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Diehard Webcomic Fans Invent Fake Anime

Never underestimate a bored internet fandom. If you aren’t familiar with web series MS Paint Adventures – in particular its latest installment, Homestuck ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 6, 2012

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Flash Game Makes Players Beat Up “Tropes vs. Women” Creator

Creator calls Anita Sarkeesian’s Kickstarter a “scam.” When FeministFrequency writer and videomaker Anita Sarkeesian started a Kickstarter to fund a video series examining ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 6, 2012

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Superjump Into Action With Student FPS Grim

In the words of Van Halen, go ahead and jump. If you’re making another one of those dime-a-dozen multiplayer FPSes these days, you ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorJuly 5, 2012

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