Heather McLellan Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Nine Year-Old Builds Astounding Cardboard Arcade

Caine’s Arcade is a fully functional cardboard arcade guaranteed to make your day better. I’d write you a nice little intro here, Escapists, ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 11, 2012

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DARPA Announces Build-A-Rescue-Robot Competition

This humanitarian version of Robot Wars involves a $2 million grand prize and the chance to help disaster victims in need. Although it’s ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 10, 2012

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BioWare Announces Post-Ending DLC for Mass Effect 3 [Updated!]

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be a free DLC pack released this summer to provide “closure” to anyone who wants it. After ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 5, 2012

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FemShep’s Voice Actress Talks Mass Effect 3 Ending

Jennifer Hale, the voice of Mass Effect‘s Commander Shepard, has revealed that we won’t be hearing new lines from the Commander anytime soon. ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 4, 2012

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EA Wins Title of “Worst Company in America”

Citizens of the internet have crowned EA “The Worst Company in America” in a Consumerist.com poll. Corporations, generally speaking, aren’t popular. We lambast ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 4, 2012

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Bungie Bids Halo Farewell with Touching Infographic

As a planet, we’ve spent 235,000 years playing Halo online since 2004. Go us? Everybody knows how they like their Halo (I take ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 2, 2012

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Buy-Out Saves British Retailer GAME

A financial acquisitions firm has purchased the bankrupt British games chain and safeguarded the immediate future of its remaining stores. The past few ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorApril 2, 2012

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U.S. Navy Hacking Used Consoles

The Navy is developing technology designed to retrieve “sensitive” information from used games consoles. According to a recent listing on the U.S. Government’s ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 29, 2012

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New Capsule Could Purify Irradiated Water

It’s not called Rad-X…yet. Dystopian visions of irradiated futures are common in gaming and just about every other creative outlet where a vague ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 29, 2012

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GAME Ireland Employees Denied Redundancy Pay

Former employees of defunct games retailer GAME are occupying shuttered stores across the Republic of Ireland to protest a lack of redundancy pay. ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 28, 2012

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Gears of War 3: Forces of Nature Launches, Gets Pretty in the Rain

Sawing through aliens on a rainy day. It’s long been the case that bouts of inclement weather which leave electricity supplies intact can ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2012

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Rumor: Sony Suspends Two PSP Games Over Vita Homebrew Exploit

Hot Shots Tennis and MotorStorm: Arctic Rift have apparently fallen foul of Sony’s mission to protect the Vita from hackers. Having spent considerable ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 27, 2012

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