John Funk Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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11 Million Modern Warfare Achievements Unlocked in One Day

Grossing half a billion USD in less than a week, Modern Warfare 2 was the most successful entertainment release of all time, but ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2009

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Mass Effect 2 Box Art Fails to Impress

Mass Effect 2 is looking great so far. Its newly-revealed box art, on the other hand, isn’t. While rumors that BioWare agents have ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 17, 2009

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CoD MewTwo Murders Xbox Live Arcade

The gigantenormous launch of Modern Warfare 2 may have spurred a staggering 2 million concurrent Xbox Live users, but it looks like none ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 17, 2009

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Ultra-Strong Wallpaper Defeats Wrecking Ball

Tired of jerks knocking down your walls with construction equipment? New bomb-proof X-Flex wallpaper has you covered. Everybody has That One Guy in ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 17, 2009

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J. Allen Brack and Samwise Talk Five Years of Warcraft

To celebrate WoW‘s fifth birthday, we sat down with Production Director J. Allen Brack and Blizzard art mastermind “Samwise” Didier to chat about ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 17, 2009

Interviews

Five Years of Warcraft: J. Allen Brack and Samwise Speak Out

To celebrate WoW‘s fifth anniversary, Production Director J. Allen Brack and Blizzard art mastermind “Samwise” Didier sat down with our sister site The ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 17, 2009

View From the Road

A View From the Road: MMOdern Warfare

Now that Modern Warfare 2 is out, perhaps we’re past that particular gamer-centric controversy that I wrote about last week, and we’re just ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2009

Jim Moreno's "RoleCraft" MMO Column

RoleCraft: A Roleplayer’s Thanksgiving List

I do a fair share of griping and complaining about what’s missing from MMORPGs in this column. I am not shy about voicing ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2009

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FBI Uses PS3s to Catch Pedophiles

Xbox 360 owners may stop fictional criminals in Crackdown, but the PS3 is being used to stop actual crime – by helping FBI ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2009

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Blizzard Devs Mess With Felicia Day in WoW

What do you do when web-video personality Jace Hall comes to check out your office? If you’re PC developer Blizzard, apparently you take ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2009

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Start-Up Claims Stone DVDs Will Last a Millennium

In case you really wanted to leave your copy of Legally Blonde to your distant descendants: WA-based start-up Cranberry LLC claims that its ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2009

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Nintendo Turns Rehab Into “Wii-Hab”

Hardcore gamers may be fond of looking down on the Nintendo Wii and things like Wii Fit, but more and more physical therapists ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2009

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