Heather McLellan Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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GAME Goes Bust [Updated!]

The UK’s biggest games retailer has buckled under the weight of its debts. Having endured months of instability and stock problems following the ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 26, 2012

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GAME Needs $286 Million to Survive March

Time is running out for the ailing British retailer. Though beleaguered by a string of heavy losses which have pursued it since the ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 19, 2012

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Day-One DLC Files Appear on Mass Effect 3 Discs

Ferreting around in Mass Effect 3‘s disc files yields information about DLC which runs counter to statements released by the game’s producers. When ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 8, 2012

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Gabe Newell Appears on List of Global Billionaires

Forbes estimates that the Valve CEO is worth somewhere in the region of $1.5 billion. According to Forbes, game industry behemoth Valve is ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 8, 2012

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Miracle of Sound Debuting New Mass Effect Song on BioWare TV

The crew of the Normandy is set to get a new battlecry, and just in time too. It’s almost time, guys. The machines ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 6, 2012

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Iran Overturns Death Sentence for KumaWar Dev

Judges have declared that the verdict in the case against U.S.-Iranian citizen Amir Mirzai Hekmati is “not complete.” Having been detained in Iran ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 5, 2012

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NASA Reveals Litany of Security Breaches

Highlights include the loss of the International Space Station’s control codes to laptop theft. Whoops. A lifelong diet of sci-fi movies and space-based ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 3, 2012

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SETI Live Invites You to Help Scientists Find Space Aliens

All the frequency-scanning drama of Contact from the comfort of your own home. Astronomers have been engaged in various SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 2, 2012

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Game UK Could Lose $4 Million on Mass Effect 3

A financial analyst has tallied up how much profit the struggling British game retailer stands to lose over not stocking Mass Effect 3. ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 2, 2012

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Princeton Review Names Top 50 Games Schools

After a year of surveys and interviews, Princeton Review has released a list of the best schools for game design in the United ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 2, 2012

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Whole Foods Using Kinect to Build Talkative Shopping Cart

I can’t let you buy that, Dave. Since its release, the depth- and voice-sensitive systems which form the basis of Kinect have been ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorMarch 1, 2012

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The Last of Us is “Character-Driven Survival Action,” Says Dev

Naughty Dog is aiming to corner the market in character-driven survival games with its upcoming tale of fungal apocalypse. Fungi, for many years, ...

By Heather McLellan Legacy AuthorFebruary 27, 2012

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