Spanner Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Reviews

Review: Need For Speed: Undercover

Like most people, I enjoy a good veg out. I can slob, loaf and switch off with the best of them. Give me ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorJanuary 22, 2009

Reviews

Review: Sacred 2

Bigger isn’t always better. But modern RPGs aren’t satisfied unless everything about them is measured in acres, gigabytes, mountain ranges and millennia. For ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2008

The Future of Gaming

Open-World Gaming

My parents used to go on and on about how much they played outside when they were kids, extolling the virtues of exercise, ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2008

Mob Rule

Too Much Information

There’s a funny byproduct of the Information Age: The bigger the digital buffet, the smaller the portions. We make decisions on which webpage ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorAugust 12, 2008

Star Wars

The Dark Side

I was born at precisely the right age to throw myself into Star Wars. I became fixated on the Force in the most ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorJuly 1, 2008

The Return of the Genre

Identity Of A Decade

As we look back on a decade, it should be bloody awful. Tacky and trite and embarrassing and laughable and unfashionable; downright bloody ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorJune 3, 2008

The Fiction Issue

The 15th Shot

Kaori’s elbow brushed alongside Eric’s, expertly demonstrating platonic support. Such incredible intuition. Moving like a specter, she’d marshaled the most imperceptible techniques to ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorApril 1, 2008

Gadgets

Power to the People

I’m certainly not shy of technology, though I wouldn’t say I was an out and out technophile either. But every time I cross ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorJanuary 22, 2008

The Way We Play

Down T’ Local

Britain’s rich heritage of excessive drinking isn’t the singular pastime it might initially appear to those with healthy livers, and the common pub ...

By Spanner Legacy AuthorJanuary 1, 2008

Wii Are The Champions?