Lara Crigger Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Mind Over Matter

The Journey to the Wild Divine“Just wait until you see the purple zebra,” says Andrew Cutter, a clinical technician at the University of ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJanuary 9, 2007

Season's Gaming

“Maajh, Ladies”

My grandmother is a quiet woman, often overshadowed by boisterous children and a husband who cracks fart jokes as if they were sonnets. ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorDecember 19, 2006

Block Party

How to be a Guitar Hero

You know who Brownbag Johnson is. That’s his wailing guitar in “Cheat on the Church” (.MP3), the Graveyard BBQ song that won the ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorNovember 21, 2006

Ask Not ...

Playing Through the Pain

On paper, Virtual Iraq sounds like the greatest war game ever made. You put on the binocular headset, and you’re instantly transported behind ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2006

A Blank Canvas

The Milkman Cometh

Editor’s Note: This article contains spoliers for the games mentioned. Midway through the game Psychonauts, in which you literally infiltrate characters’ minds for ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorOctober 17, 2006

In Too Deep

Escaping Katrina

November 24, 2005. 6:00 p.m. 10,000 feet over New Orleans and descending. Below the plane, most of the I-10 East bridge has vanished ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorAugust 8, 2006

Against the Gods

The Short, Happy Life of Infocom

Infocom, king of the text adventure and the first behemoth of American computer game development, began not with a bang, but with an ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJuly 25, 2006