Shannon Drake Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Have Yourself A Nuclear Little Christmas

Some have accused Introversion’s DEFCON of being a game centered around killing millions of people at the push of a button. This, however, ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorDecember 20, 2006

Reviews

Review: Bookworm Adventures Deluxe

Popcap Games, the reason your mother owns a computer, recently unveiled their magnum opus, Bookworm Adventures Deluxe. BAD is more than a fun ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorDecember 15, 2006

Dungeons & Dollars Redux

The Industrialization of Play

To the real world, Julian Dibbell is a contributing editor for Wired, with other work appearing in New York magazine, Feed and Topic. ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorDecember 12, 2006

Microsoft: The "X" Men

Number of the Beast

While Jordan Weisman guided Microsoft’s game division to respectability, worked on the cutting edge with Virtual World centers, started a cool miniature gaming ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorNovember 28, 2006

Op-Ed

Star Wars: Stardock on Starforce

In one of those favorable twists of fate, I happened to be doing a Q&A with Stardock about their public spat with StarForce ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorNovember 22, 2006

Ask Not ...

Seed on the Road

Imagine an MMOG with actual roleplaying, where players determine the direction of the game itself, and where human interaction and scheming are far ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2006

Good to be Bad

Playing as a True Predator

Steven Spielberg, purveyor of Serious Oscar Contenders and moving melodramas about little kids with no father, is also responsible for one of the ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 31, 2006

Op-Ed

Back to the Future

We’re in the midst of one of the great periods in gaming: The Christmas Rush. From the end of September through the New ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 24, 2006

Op-Ed

You Farm 16 Gold And Whaddya Get?

Another Day Older And A Book Deal On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, I announced to my family, my friends, and anyone else who ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 20, 2006

A Blank Canvas

“I Didn’t Leave Games, the Games Left Me”

Amidst the flannel and depression of the mid-’90s, there was Earthworm Jim, a surreal world of toilet humor and offbeat jokes in an ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 17, 2006

Op-Ed

You Know What’s Wrong With The Industry?

This seems to be popping up a lot lately. I spotted this article on Gamasutra today and, while I don’t understand most of ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 13, 2006

With A Thousand Avatars

The Lexicon of Latin

No mortal man can sway the Fates from their editorial course. Endless debates about whom to talk to for a mythology issue rang ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 10, 2006

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