Sean Sands Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Reviews

Who Do You Trust?

Stop believing what you read in game reviews. I realize that I may be stepping on some toes here, considering that from time ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2008

Op-Ed

A Crisis of Confidence

For those who haven’t been following the disturbing and occasionally ridiculous news from the Entertainment Software Association, it is in full-on self-destruct mode. ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorJune 10, 2008

Op-Ed

The Fallacy of MMO Innovation

This week’s release of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures underscores once again how incredibly difficult it is to launch a high-quality massively multiplayer ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorMay 23, 2008

Op-Ed

The DRM Effect

[Editor’s note: Since the time of this article’s writing, EA has formally announced they will forgo the updated SecuROM protection scheme for both ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorMay 9, 2008

Op-Ed

The Padlocked Pocketbook

The videogame industry has an increasingly significant problem, and as a consumer you may not be happy about what game publishers have to ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorApril 25, 2008

Op-Ed

Defending the Villain

Piracy is a hard topic to discuss reasonably and rationally in a public forum. It is a polarizing issue, revealing deep divides between ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorApril 11, 2008

Op-Ed

Advocacy

I am an advocate for gaming. I sing the praises of its potential to educate, to create empathy, to entertain and to allow ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorMarch 28, 2008

Op-Ed

The Quality of Dull

I enjoyed my formative years living on a small farm near a small town in an inconsequential Midwestern state where making and eating ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorMarch 14, 2008

Op-Ed

Pessimism’s End

We are now well entrenched into the third year of this console generation; the generation that was supposed to crush smaller third-party developers ...

By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorFebruary 29, 2008

Op-Ed