John Funk Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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A 20-Minute Walkthrough of Star Wars: The Old Republic

Do you feel like watching some gameplay footage of Star Wars: The Old Republic? Do you feel like watching twenty minutes of gameplay ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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StarCraft II Will Have LAN After All – Almost

Desperate to play StarCraft II with your buddies but don’t want to have to go through Battle.Net 2.0 to do it? Lead designer ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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Is There a Zombie on Blizzard’s Lawn?

Over the course of last weekend’s BlizzCon ’09, I noticed more than a few references that led me to wonder: What the hell ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

View From the Road

A View From the Road: Identity (Epic) Quest

A couple of weeks ago, while writing about the implementation of factions in an MMOG, I touched on the idea that these in-game ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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Blizzard: Lack of StarCraft LAN “No Big Deal”

Blizzard is all too aware of the outrage sparked from its controversial decision to omit LAN support from StarCraft 2, but VP of ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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Bungie: Reach Will be Our Last Halo Trilogy Content

Halo has been quite the cash cow for Microsoft and Bungie, but even it must come to a (relative) end – according to ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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Molyneux Says Americans Find it Harder to Be Evil

Given the choice between good and evil in a game, says Fable mastermind Peter Molyneux, Americans tend towards good much more than Europeans ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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Analysts Sound Off on Xbox 360 Slim

With Sony’s game-changing announcement of the smaller, cheaper Slim PS3 last week at Gamescom, will rival Microsoft follow suit? When the Slim PS3 ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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Gamescom Becomes World’s Largest Gaming Event

Last week’s Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany, was pretty darn successful. How successful, you ask? Successful enough to be the biggest gaming event ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 24, 2009

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