Kieron Gillen Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Superheroes

The Comics Panel

The Immortal Iron Fist is one of the most critically acclaimed comics in the American mainstream. An epic reanimation of one of Marvel’s ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorJune 17, 2008

Epic

I’ve Got to be a Macho Man

Along with my peers, I chuckled at the “So Macho” remake of Gears of War as 2006 drew to a close. And this ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorMay 13, 2008

Editor's Choice

Hard Times

The Pickford brothers were completely bewildered. What Rare had asked was unprecedented, strange and curious. They’d never heard anything like it. Who’d make ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorMay 6, 2008

Power of Laughter

Team Roomba

You notice something amiss: The Scout is stuck halfway up the wall. This is problematic. Normally, it’d only be problematic for the Scout. ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorApril 29, 2008

Post Mortem

Footprints

The splintering of developers is a natural process. Eventually, someone is likely to want to try to strike out on his own, either ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2008

Dark and Stormy Night

The Illuminated Ones

Light, as far as fundamental issues in game design go, is an opaque topic for most gamers. In modern 3-D engines, it’s something ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2007

Golden Ticket

Brick by Brick

LEGO Star Wars‘ success managed to both be a surprise and entirely predictable. On the positive side, how could a mix of two ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorJuly 3, 2007

Editor's Choice

Playground Piracy

When reading about Todd Hollenshead’s GDC presentation arguing that some funds from pirate organizations financed terrorism, I couldn’t help but think of the ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorApril 24, 2007

Editor's Choice

Be Men, Not Destroyers

You suspect that if Danny Ledonne knew what the fallout would be from uploading his 23 MB RPG Maker-constructed game to his website ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorFebruary 27, 2007

Can't Get it Out of My Head

Alone in the Dark

And then she’s gone. She was the air that you breathed, the water you drank, the creature who – in a whirlwind of ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorFebruary 13, 2007

What Were the Odds?

Chaos: Battle of the Wizards

Strictly speaking, the game didn’t come from nowhere, just the closest local equivalent: Penkridge Market. A village sitting halfway between the nowhere Midlands ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2007

Silver Screen, Gold Disc

The Sincerest Form of Imitation

Games’ relationship with cinema is pretty simple: Games rip it off. Games are, hugely, a derivative art-form. Their best visual motifs and scenarios ...

By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorJanuary 23, 2007

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