Shamus Young Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Mail Time: Pokemon Coding and DRM

We’re in that odd lull between the “October Crappy Spooky Game” glut and the “End of year / Christmas” glut. (This year, that’s ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorNovember 2, 2015

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SOMA is Something Unique in Gaming – Reveal Driven Drama

SOMA is a hard game to talk about. The expectation is that it’s going to be another fright-fest like Amnesia: The Dark Descent. ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorOctober 26, 2015

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The Survival Horror Genre is a Mess

To be fair, the Survival Horror genre has always been a mess, because nobody can agree on when it began, what games it ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorOctober 19, 2015

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Game Developers Don’t Know How to Scare Us

This week I came across this 2011 study that compared the effects of various “horror” games on players. The study limited itself to ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorOctober 12, 2015

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Why is System Shock a Big Deal?

“So Shamus, what do you think of / have you heard about the new System Shock Enhanced Edition?”, was a question everyone kept ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2015

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Why Do I Need to Restart the Game?

If you’re a mechanic, people ask you about the strange sounds their car is making. If you’re a doctor, people ask you about ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorSeptember 29, 2015

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Please Understand, Nintendo is the Bad Guy

YouTuber PangaeaPanga is a Mario speedrunner and creator of the popular Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever? video, among numerous other videos involving ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorSeptember 21, 2015

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Why Do Games Take Up so Much Space?

I got several questions from readers this week, all of them related to how large games are. So I’m going to answer them ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorSeptember 14, 2015

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What Makes Gaming Hardware Become Obsolete?

Everyone hears the tems “memory”, “processor”, “storage” and “graphics card”, and they understand that these are somehow parts of a computer, but not ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorSeptember 7, 2015

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