Lauren Admire Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

SCIENCE!

Science!: Computer Brains, Bird-Breathers and Human Catastrophe

Complex, Active Fault Lines Created Devastating Haitian Earthquake The Haitian earthquake that devastated the country and resulted in ever-growing death tolls was caused ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 18, 2010

Reviews

Review: Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets (PC)

In Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets, you play as Gaby, a wanna-be Perez Hilton with a gossip column that doesn’t feature any gossip! She is ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 15, 2010

News

Can Videogames Make You Cry?

Movies can make us cry. Books can make us cry. But can videogames make us cry? John Walker, author of “Confessions of a ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2010

SCIENCE!

Science!: Jurassic (Goat) Park, Mind Reading and Pimp-Slapping Fish

Extinct Goat Species Revived Through Cloning The Pyrenean ibex is a mountain goat that lived in the Pyrenees mountains, along the French/Spanish border. ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 11, 2010

News

New School Tries Swapping Games for Books

A unique school in Manhattan is swapping out textbooks for videogames, in the hopes of renewing children’s enthusiasm for learning. Combining gaming with ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 11, 2010

News

The Implied Sex Cut Scene Has Got to Go

Sex in videogames is often a passive experience, but how much would the experience improve if those cutscenes were playable? Most developers avoid ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 8, 2010

SCIENCE!

Science!: Duck Penises, Willpower and Whales

I used to think that willpower was a never-ending pit of untapped resolve. As you practiced foregoing that extra glass of Chardonnay on ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 4, 2010

Staff Favorites 2009

The Escapist Staff’s Five Faves of 2009: Lauren

My favorites for 2009 fell into two categories: games that distracted me from the real world, and games that I could play in ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorJanuary 2, 2010

News

The Lovecraftian Meteorite

Meteorites host the dual powers of creation and destruction; it was a meteorite that burst through the atmosphere and cleared an evolutionary path ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorDecember 30, 2009

SCIENCE!

Science!: Ants and Monkeys

Health is Your Future! Researchers at Kansas State University have found that people who are future-minded tend to make more positive decisions about ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorDecember 28, 2009

SCIENCE!

Science!: Vikings, Coconuts and Octopuses

Octopus Uses Coconut As Protection Deep at the bottom of the ocean, something stirs, creating a brief and twisting sandstorm. A basking shark ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorDecember 21, 2009

News

From Well-Off to Rogue

As some developers are realizing, indie development may be preferable to AAA game development, despite its drawbacks. Working for an AAA gaming company ...

By Lauren Admire Legacy AuthorDecember 16, 2009

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