Grey Carter Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Turbine: Subscription Model is Still Kicking

Turbine reckons the tried and tested $X-a-month pricing model still has its place. “It’s probably not right to say the subscription MMO is ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2012

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Scammers Posing As Disney Kill Fan-Made Game

A fan-made game featuring a Mickey Mouse parody has been shut down after scammers posing as Disney lawyers threatened legal action. Hanako, a ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2012

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Hong Kong Apple Stores Selecting Customers via Lottery

Apple Stores in Hong Kong have resorted to a lottery system as the dwindling supply of the latest iPhone causes customers to turn ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2012

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Court Documents Reveal Anime Licensing Costs

Ever wondered how much it costs to license a show? Those of you who wait (and wait) for licensed, western-releases of anime shows ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2012

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Minecraft Menu Drops the N-Bomb

An unimaginative, translator-turned-troll managed to add an unpleasant racial epithet to Minecraft‘s main menu. Yesterday, Afrikaans-speaking players who fired up the latest snapshot ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 29, 2012

Critical Miss

Ani-Chan

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] This still manages to make marginally more sense than the Soulcalibur IV / Star Wars crossover. You may need to read ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 27, 2012

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Wipe Your Backside With Moby-Dick

Someone is selling a … ‘unique’ copy of Melville’s Moby-Dick on eBay. I really do mean ‘unique’. This particular copy of the great ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 27, 2012

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Twitter Censorship Now Country-Specific

The “tweets still must flow,” provided your local government agrees. Today, a new policy went into effect that allows Twitter, to “reactively withhold ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 26, 2012

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Rumor: 360 Successor’s GPU and Release Date Detailed

According to some sources, the next Xbox will ship in either October or November of next year and feature an AMD 6000-series GPU. ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 25, 2012

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RuneScape Gets Pricier

A subscription for decade-old MMO, RuneScape, will cost you an extra two bucks as of February 1st. While many MMO’s are going free-to-play, ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 25, 2012

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Rebellion: WWII is Fresh Again

Sniper Elite developer, Rebellion, reckons the world is ready for more WWII games. Do you remember when the first-person shooter market was saturated ...

By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 24, 2012

Critical Miss

For the Empress

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By Grey Carter Legacy AuthorJanuary 24, 2012

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