Mark Wallace Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Knocking Pixels: The Evolution of Cybersex

Hot Coffee was child’s play. The unlock-able sexual content hidden in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas may have caused the biggest videogame controversy ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorMay 2, 2006

Can a Game Make You Cry?

The Crying Game

As videogames ascend the ranks of popular media – they are now played in at least 75% of American homes, according to the ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorApril 18, 2006

StateCraft: Update

Griefing is Good: Freedom of Choice and the Politics of Gameplay

If you ask me, there are two kinds of players in the videogames of life: There are passengers, and there are drivers. The ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorMarch 28, 2006

Ludo, Ergo Sum

The Play’s the Thing

What’s in a game? For those of us who are game buffs – in much the same way the cool kids were movie ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorMarch 14, 2006

Wanna Be My Friendster?

Anonymity is Not Enough

Boston, the Harvard Faculty Club, a snowy morning in February. About 30 technologists, encryption experts, academics and corporate execs, plus a handful of ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorFebruary 28, 2006

Love the One You're With

Love in the Time of Pixels

This is a love story of a particular kind. It’s a story of love in an online world, and of the ways it ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorFebruary 14, 2006

Method Gamers

In Celebration of the Inner Rogue

I’m a big fan of my troll Rogue in World of Warcraft. He’s good at ambushing his enemies, and he hits hard. I ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2006

For Great Justice!

One Night In Arathi

Cooperation comes in many different forms. In virtual worlds, it most often takes the shape of the five-man quest parties formed in World ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorJanuary 17, 2006

The Year In Review

Trust Me

As we all know by now (and the rest of the world is rapidly learning), the imaginary currencies that are earned, spent and ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorDecember 27, 2005

Do You Want to Play a Game?

Kuma\War: Frontlines of a New Medium

In July 2003, television screens around the world were filled with images of the dead bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorDecember 6, 2005

The Home Invasion

Theory of the Gaming Class

The institution of a gaming class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture. The upper classes ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorNovember 29, 2005

Griefer Nation

The Day the Grid Disappeared

It was not a good day for the virtual world. It was the next-to-last Sunday in October, a day before a major new ...

By Mark Wallace Legacy AuthorNovember 15, 2005

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