John Funk Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Overpaid Ex-Microsofters Get to Keep the Money

After the predictable backlash over the release of a letter asking some former Microsoft employees to return overly generous severance pay, the software ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 24, 2009

Reviews

Review: Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad

You can say many things about Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, but one thing you can’t say is that the game doesn’t know its ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 24, 2009

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Street Fighter KOs Wii Fit

Street fighting seems to be all the rage these days: Shipping two million copies in its first week on shelves, Street Fighter IV ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 23, 2009

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Valve’s Devs Run Quad-Cores, 12 GB of RAM

In the buildup to Tuesday’s release of the Team Fortress 2 Scout Update, Valve has decided to release the specs of the PCs ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 23, 2009

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Microsoft Overpays Fired Workers, Asks For Refund

When Microsoft laid off 1,400 employees earlier in the year, an administrative error resulted in some of the unlucky folks getting overly generous ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 23, 2009

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Legend of Chun-Li Withheld From Critics

For anyone still holding out hope that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li won’t turn out to be crap, here’s some disheartening news ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2009

Interviews

WarCry Talks Trickster Online

WarCry: Could you please start out by introducing yourself? My name is Sang and I am the Assistant Game Operations Manager at Ntreev ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2009

Alt+Escape

Alt+Escape: Magnet Towers

Welcome to Alt+Escape, our weekly pick of browser-based games to help you start your weekend a little early. Check back each Friday for ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2009

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Capcom’s 10 Commandments of Development

At DICE 2009, Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi outlined the “10 Commandments” Capcom tried to adhere to as a developer – rules ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2009

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Okami Creator: Western Devs Are Better

Atsushi Inaba, the man behind bizarre(ly awesome) Capcom titles such as Okami and Viewtiful Joe, thinks that Western developers are simply “superior” to ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2009

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Noby Noby Boy Stretches to PSN Today

Attention PS3 owners: Turn on the nearest black-light and put on your copy of Dark Side of the Moon, because the world’s most ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2009

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Man Proposes & Will Get Married in LittleBigPlanet

All the way back in October, one particular PS3 owner used a custom LittleBigPlanet level to pop the question to his girlfriend, who ...

By John Funk Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2009

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