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Leigh Alexander Legacy Author
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    Busy Hands

    Dating Sims Get Real

    Interesting experiences often require alternative game forms, and the dating sim in particular is a fascinating bird. Since the gameplay is all about ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorOctober 20, 2011
    Busy Hands

    Catherine‘s Complex View of Commitment

    In my first article ever here at The Escapist, I said that Kana, Little Sister — a Japanese story-driven sex game about a ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorAugust 30, 2011
    e-volution

    Memory Lane

    Revisit the crude progenitor of one of gaming’s global mega-franchises, and you’re left with feelings of nostalgia, fondness … and bewilderment, too. The ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorJuly 14, 2009
    Under the Tree

    We Always Play Videogames

    United around a singular fixation on videogames, my little sister, my younger cousin and I must have seemed inscrutable to the adults in ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorDecember 4, 2007
    Who Are You?

    Midgar is Burning

    We can smell the advent of participatory content on the changing winds of our increasingly open-source world. In a recent article in The ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorSeptember 11, 2007
    Generation Why?

    Growing Up Gamer

    My dad tells me my first game was Juggles’ House on the Atari, but I was so young then that I don’t remember. ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorAugust 21, 2007
    Lightness of Being (a Gamer)

    Alone in the Crowd

    I live in Manhattan, a city piled wall-to-wall with people. Commuting, strolling, traveling – there are so many people that before long, you ...
    By Leigh Alexander Legacy AuthorApril 10, 2007
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