Robert Rath Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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The Royal, Seedy, and Supernatural History of Dice

Last week, Turkish archaeologists announced an astonishing discovery: a Bronze Age burial site has yielded what may be the oldest gaming tokens ever ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorAugust 21, 2014

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Why Straight White Guys Shouldn’t Always Play Games As Themselves

We’ve talked a lot lately about diversifying our protagonists. Whether it’s Ubisoft’s faux pas on including only white men as playable characters in ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorAugust 14, 2014

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How White Wolf’s “Murderer’s Row” Carved Its Mark on Genre Fiction

Chuck Wendig’s got more projects than he has time. Blightborn, the second novel of his Mad-Max-goes-to-Iowa Heartland Trilogy, came out last week. Starz ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorAugust 7, 2014

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What Visiting the Amazon Taught Me About Video Game Jungles

We were five hours upriver in the Peruvian Amazon when we saw the anaconda. It lay coiled and motionless, nested inside a clutch ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJuly 31, 2014

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Who Has the Best Adventure Outfit: Indy, Lara Croft, or Nathan Drake?

Last week my wife and I trekked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Four days of hiking along dusty trails, cloud forests, and ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2014

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The Game That Turned Little Kids Into Cannibalistic Hyenas

Board games are great. They’re explorations of strategy and critical thinking that represent the world as numbers. But here’s the thing: you’re introduced ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJuly 17, 2014

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Disregard Weapons, Acquire Tools

Joel, from The Last of Us is probably the worst apocalypse survivor ever. By the end of the game, he’s carrying a rifle, ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJuly 10, 2014

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Why Games are Terrible at Water

Water is why you’re alive right now. It’s one of the major prerequisites for both creating and sustaining life. But while oceans cover ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJuly 3, 2014

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Macau Casinos Look More Like Arcades All the Time

Macau is where Hong Kong goes to party, and in Hong Kong, partying means gambling. Not that there isn’t anywhere to try your ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJune 26, 2014

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The Historical Case for Playable Women in Assassin’s Creed: Unity

On October 5th, 1789 a mob of women – many of them market sellers armed with knives – stormed into Paris’ city hall. ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJune 19, 2014

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Busting the Myth of Nazi Super-Science

Last week we discussed how Wolfenstein: The New Order uses alternate history to make the player reexamine Nazism and World War II. And ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJune 12, 2014

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Wolfenstein and the Power of Resistance

Warning: This article contains detailed spoilers for the game Wolfenstein: The New Order. Wolfenstein: The New Order does things most games wouldn’t dare ...

By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJune 5, 2014

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