Leigh Alexander Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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