Sean Sands Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Gaming is Made of People

When I began writing about videogames a decade ago, I was like any other videogame fan. I was excited about the idea of ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorDecember 27, 2009

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Who’s Got Next?

I began my professional association with The Escapist in 2006, at which point I had already been writing about videogames for more than ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorDecember 12, 2009

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Happiness is a Warm Controller

“You still play videogames?” It is a question with far more inferred by the tone than the meanings of the words themselves can ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorNovember 29, 2009

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Poking the Hornet?s Nest

Fair warning – spoilers to follow. As Modern Warfare 2 breaks retail records, the focus inevitably turns toward the predictable controversy of a ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorNovember 14, 2009

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Altered Allegiance

I am a delusional relic. I am a PC gamer, and I have believed for too long in an unassailable valve of my ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorNovember 1, 2009

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Come Together. Right Now.

You can tell a boycott worked because nobody is happy with the results when it ends. I was, and remain, relatively scornful of ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorOctober 18, 2009

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Death of a Know-It-All

Near my suburban home is a traffic light. Every day, I sit at this traffic light as it invariably turns red just as ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorOctober 4, 2009

The New Deal

I Won’t Budget an Inch

As a father of two, I have a duty to exemplify the qualities of patience, thrift and responsibility. Where videogames are concerned, however, ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorSeptember 8, 2009

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Adult Themes

It is accurate to say that well into my baby-twenties I was not what one thought of as a traditional gamer. I was ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorSeptember 6, 2009

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A Wasteland Revisited

It is dark and dank, and I hear something scuttle in the darkness. The last auburn glow of heat from the smoldering barrel ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorAugust 23, 2009

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Press Released: Plugged Into the Past

Were I to pinpoint my apex of gaming ability, it would be just shy of ten years ago, at the height of Counter-Strike’s ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorAugust 9, 2009

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Nice Guys Come in Last

Boggling at the ongoing feud between Activision and Brütal Legend as it enters its latest circus tent of bad blood and sour grapes, ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorJuly 26, 2009

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