Shannon Drake Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Op-Ed

Bent By Beckham

Regular followers of our ongoing adventures in the Lounge and on the forums know about my last experience with Football Manager 07’s demo. ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 9, 2006

Op-Ed

Forward The Lads!

In which I become an English Premier League manager. Regular readers know of the way Joe and I became fans of the English ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 4, 2006

All in the Cards

The Idea of Warhammer

While Games Workshop began as a small bedroom company focused on importing American roleplaying games for the British market, their own lineup of ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 3, 2006

Reviews

Review: Okami

As I’ve grown older, my gaming attention span has grown shorter, possibly because I have so much more to distract me now. When ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorSeptember 26, 2006

Hands-On Gaming

Dancing for Jesus

eFocus is the anti-E3. It’s small and comparatively quiet – dancing girls, rock bands and fire twirlers tend to be absent – so ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorSeptember 26, 2006

Editor's Choice

There’s a Lot More to Tell

“I am forced into print because men of journalism have refused to follow my advice without knowing why.” It’s a sign things are ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorAugust 29, 2006

Edu-Gaming

Piano Wizards

Plenty of kids wind up press-ganged into the car, driven to a house that smells of cats and shouted at as they mangle ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorAugust 22, 2006

Against the Gods

20 Million Dollar Failure

The Sims Online should have been a sure thing. The premise reads like a gaming executive’s dream sheet. A popular, long-lived franchise loved ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJuly 25, 2006

In Spaaaace!

Development in a Vacuum

Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned and written about EVE Online again, earning more accusations about illicit activities and shifty exchanges involving ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJuly 18, 2006

2020 Redux

The New Gaming Society

Greetings from 2020. Much has been written about the cultural shift as the middle-class destroyed itself. The white collar worker died on a ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2006

It Came From The Escapist

Breaking the Fourth Wall

Breaking the fourth wall – stepping through the barrier between what is “game” and what is reality – is still largely a gimmick. ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2006

Snow Day

Exodus

It used to be the stuff of blues legend: Sign a contract at the Crossroads, lose a little bit of your soul, and ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJune 6, 2006

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