Jordan Deam Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Staff Favorites 2009

The Escapist Staff’s Five Faves of 2009: Jordan

As a regular contributor of reviews to The Escapist, I played plenty of games in 2009 that impressed me for a week or ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorDecember 30, 2009

News

MAGFest To Rock Washington, D.C., January 1-4, 2010

Like videogames? Like music? How about videogame music? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may want to make the ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorDecember 24, 2009

Reviews

Review: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

I’m all for videogames that ask uncomfortable questions; the purpose of art, after all, is to challenge our ideas of truth and beauty, ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorDecember 17, 2009

Reviews

Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

It’s a testament to the ongoing evolution of the Mario franchise that a return to its humble 2-D sidescroller origins seems almost revolutionary. ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorDecember 1, 2009

Editor's Choice

A Gentleman and a Scholar

In videogames, there are your wisecracking anthropomorphic critters, your angst-y androgynous teens and your adrenaline-fueled space marines – and then there’s Winterbottom. Hunchbacked ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorNovember 24, 2009

Editorials

The Xfire Game Store: Digital Distribution Gets Social

Digital distribution has never been a particularly social way to grow your game collection. Trade-in policies aside, there’s something comforting about making the ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorNovember 24, 2009

News

“Soap” MacTavish Undergoes Facial Reconstructive Surgery

After a sorting error left Escapist Editor Jordan Deam’s plastic head of Modern Warfare 2‘s “Soap” MacTavish permanently disfigured, forumgoer mcipaulr came to ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorNovember 20, 2009

Reviews

Review: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Is it fair to expect radical innovation from a series that has spawned near annual sequels for the last seven years? Your answer ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2009

News

Unboxing Modern Warfare 2‘s Prestige Edition

Has a deficit of cash or a surplus of common sense prevented you from springing for Modern Warfare 2‘s Prestige Edition? Then experience ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2009

Editor's Note

Healthy Living

Prepare to have your mind blown: I’m a gamer, and I’m also in decent shape. Seems impossible, doesn’t it? That a person could ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2009

News

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Horse Books Announces Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Debut Novel, Mogworld

Publisher Dark Horse Books has announced Mogworld, the debut novel of The Escapist‘s Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw. If you’re impressed by the amount of ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorOctober 23, 2009

Reviews

Review: Lucidity

Say what you will about LucasArts – the company that fired its best game designers in the late ’90s, milked the Star Wars ...

By Jordan Deam Legacy AuthorOctober 22, 2009

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