Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Making Their Mark

Proud To Be Different

Where some companies’ About Us page contains a mealy-mouthed forward-looking vision statement about moving forward new paradigms, independent developer Running With Scissors‘ About ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorOctober 16, 2007

Career Day

A Casual Environment

Read the gaming rags, or listen to those who toil in the industry, and the complaints soon arise: The “crunch” workweeks of 60 ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorSeptember 4, 2007

Reviews

The Thin Man

Leland Dashiell was one of the rising stars of the city police force, making detective younger than anybody before he moved into his ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2007

Reviews

Review: Venice

If Bookworm Adventures was Popcap’s magnum opus and Peggle was their Plinko, their newest game, Venice, is their Go. Venice is a seemingly ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorJune 22, 2007

Interviews

WarCry Q&A: Phylon

Our own Dana Massey recently spoke with Tracy Spaight about the upcoming game Phylon. WarCry Q&A: PhylonAnswers by Tracy SpaightQuestions by Dana Massey ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorMay 10, 2007

Pirates of the Burning Sea: Weekly Screenshots

Exclusive Screenshots, Week #7

We’ve added two new screenshots to the image gallery from the upcoming MMO from Flying Lab Software. Pirates of the Burning Sea is ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorMay 10, 2007

Op-Ed

On The Cutting Edge

My artsy geek alarm sounded when I saw Killer 7 sitting in the used rack at EB Games. I’d heard good things. Or, ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorJune 28, 2006

News

How I Stopped Worrying And Realized I Was In Customer Service

My morning perusings brought me to an unfortunately brief article (language warning for those with touchy bosses) covering how and why a game ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorJune 7, 2006

News

Wii Will Not Cost More Than $250

They came out and said it. The press release is in my Inbox, and here is the relevant bit… Nintendo also confirmed that ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorMay 25, 2006

News

“You just can’t get through a sum as big as this…”

The sordid tale of Gizmondo is one of my favorite tales of excess from the industry. They managed to blow through £160,000,000 (which ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorMay 24, 2006

News

Legislation Across the Pacific

The US isn’t the only country looking to regulate video games. South Korea is moving to regulate the amount of time someone can ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorMay 19, 2006

News

Louisiana Passes Feel Good, Useless Legislation

So Louisiana passed their violent video games bill and my favorite quote has to be the equivalent of “Sure, it’s useless and pointless, ...

By Shannon "Vandemar" Drake Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2006

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