Max Steele Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Zero Punctuation: Achieving the Cross-media Transformation of Ludological Hermeneutics

Critical analysis of interactive entertainment has heretofore been the bailiwick of an elite caste of self-appointed ministers of quality who use faux-numerical quantitative ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorJuly 6, 2010

Reviews

Review: Medieval II: Total War

Harold Godwinson could have been the ruler of England. The designated heir of Edward the Confessor, he defeated the Viking king Harold Hardrada ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorDecember 19, 2006

Editor's Choice

Three Under 30

The game industry is widely perceived as young. And, in a sense, it is: The “old masters,” developers like Garriott, Meier and Miyamoto, ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorAugust 29, 2006

Wanna Be My Friendster?

Anywhere, Anytime, Any Phone

I’m sipping a latte at Starbucks when an instant message arrives on my mobile phone. There’s a mobile game tournament starting soon with ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorFebruary 28, 2006

Walton's World

A Marginal Business

The used game business works like this: A gamer shows up at GameStop with a few games he’s tired of and wants to ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorJanuary 3, 2006

Gamers Get Game

The New Mainstream

OK. Here’s the deal. If you’re middle class, you’re not cool. Granted, a lot of people in the middle class don’t care if ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorOctober 18, 2005

Whatever Happened To...

A Conversation with Chris Crawford

The man known as the Dean of American Game Design toils alone, unfunded and underappreciated, in a forest in Oregon. He has renounced ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorSeptember 27, 2005

Classical Studies

The Greatest Generation of Games

In the U.S., 1979 to 1982 are generally considered the “Golden Age” of gaming, the era when arcades dominated the American main street ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorAugust 23, 2005

Grand Theft Adaptation

It’s All Real To Me

When I’m sitting in a theatre watching a terrible movie made from a great game, the first thing I think to do is ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorAugust 16, 2005

It's Your Game

Don’t Roleplay the Bugs

On screen, my module – the second I’ve created with the Aurora toolset for Neverwinter Nights – is finally proceeding smoothly. Jon is ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorAugust 2, 2005

Who's Playing

Save the Roleplayers!

I have a friend named Jon. Jon and I played Dungeons & Dragons together when we were in college, back when D&D was ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorJuly 26, 2005

Gaming on the Go

The War at Hand

The mainstream media continues to argue about a coming console war between Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I can only shrug. What makes ...

By Max Steele Legacy AuthorJuly 19, 2005