John Funk Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Interviews

Second Skin‘s Director Talks Virtual Worlds

On the eve of the grand premiere of his documentary Second Skin, director Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza was kind enough to speak with ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 7, 2009

News

Valve’s Faliszek: “Need to See” Natal’s “Compelling Games First”

Left 4 Dead brainiac Chet Faliszek might think that Project Natal is a wicked cool piece of technology, but that doesn’t mean anything ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 6, 2009

News

Battle.net 2.0 Will Be Like Xbox Live, Caused SC2 Delay

Here’s the reason why StarCraft II was delayed to 2010 – Blizzard wants to roll the game out alongside its brand-new upgraded Battle.net, ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 6, 2009

News

Dominion: The CCG For the Modern Era

Most CCGs revolve around the principle of building your deck first, then playing the game. The smash hit Dominion, on the other hand, ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 6, 2009

Op-Ed

Preview: Aion

Last year at PAX ’08, I gave NCSoft’s next-gen MMORPG Aion the “Miss Teen South Carolina” award because, to paraphrase: It almost didn’t ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 6, 2009

News

Robot Chicken Does Castlevania

Seth Green’s stop-motion action-figure comedy show attempts to answer the age-old question, “What the hell is with the Belmonts and whips?” Not much ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 5, 2009

News

Xbox 360 Pro Being Eliminated Soon?

Photos have surfaced online of new packaging for the Xbox 360 Arcade that seem to suggest that Microsoft will be going from three ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 5, 2009

News

Guess the Street Fighter Spin-off!

Hungarian software company ZEN Studios has blasted out a teaser image featuring Street Fighter‘s Ryu in front of a… shiny sphere of some ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 5, 2009

News

Crytek Threatens to Leave Germany Again

If the German government continues to seek a ban on violent games, Crysis developer Crytek will take its ball and go home, says ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 5, 2009

News

Final Fantasy XIV Will Have Jobs, Won’t Have Levels or Experience

Final Fantasy XIV will be keeping some aspects from its predecessor Final Fantasy XI like the Job System (sort of), but ditching others ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 4, 2009

News

Play Champions Online For Life For $200

Feel like playing Champions Online for years and years but don’t want to pay a monthly fee? You can preorder a lifetime subscription ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 4, 2009

News

Chinese Teen Beaten to Death at Internet Addiction Camp

A sixteen-year-old Chinese boy was beaten to death during treatment at a camp supposedly designed to help cure youth of their addiction to ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorAugust 4, 2009

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