Logan Westbrook Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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THQ Blames Homefront Single Player for Lukewarm Reviews

Four hour campaigns apparently don’t make for happy reviewers. When near-future, “what if?” shooter Homefront came out in March, the reviewer reaction to ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 4, 2011

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Black Thor Actor Talks About Racist Comic Book Fans

Magic and monsters are fine, but a black guy playing a Norse god? That’s taking things too far. Idris Elba, who plays Heimdall ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 4, 2011

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Nerf Gives Squirt Guns Action Movie Upgrade

Nerf has beefed up its water guns with an idea borrowed from actual guns. There’s something very satisfying about watching an action movie ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011

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Portal 2 Fan Dumps Mouse for Kinect Hack

Toss that mouse into an incinerator, you won’t be needing it anymore. Yesterday we discovered that you don’t actually need portals to succeed ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011

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Nintendo Boss Admits Vitality Sensor Still Needs Work

The vitality sensor is full of potential, says Nintendo, it’s just not ready for primetime yet. It’s been nearly two years since Nintendo ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011

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Game Boy Goes to Space, Then Goes to Auction

In space, no one can hear you play Tetris. The humble Game Boy was a curious beast: It wasn’t the prettiest, or most ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011

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Shao Kahn Crushes His Foes in Fantastical New Mortal Kombat Episode

You don’t need guns or cyborgs to take over a realm, not when you’ve got an army of blade-armed monsters. The world of ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011

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Videogame Industry Flunks Out of Zombie School

Zombies are the question, but guns, guns, and more guns is definitely not the answer. Zombies are scary in a very unique way. ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 2, 2011

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Report: IGN and UGO to Merge and Become New Company

IGN is flying the News Corp. nest with the aim of hastening the site’s growth. IGN, one of the biggest videogame sites around, ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 2, 2011

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The Week in Review: Superman, Sony, and Zombie Fortresses

In this week’s edition, Superman renounces his US citizenship, and Sony reveals just how much personal information it has lost. People Unhappy as ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorApril 30, 2011

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Glitches Give Left 4 Dead Achievement Hunters the Edge

It’s amazing what people will do for a measly 35 points. There’s a certain thrill that comes with unlocking a new achievement, and ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorApril 30, 2011

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Superman Quits America, Fox News Readers Take the News Badly

A Superman story with an unusually overt political theme has some Conservative comic book fans up in arms. Superman’s classic line about “truth, ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorApril 29, 2011

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