Logan Westbrook Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Sony Russia Claims BioWare Reveal Is Mass Effect 3

A single tweet, containing more information than it should, may have spoiled the big surprise that BioWare had planned for the Spike Videogame ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 20, 2010

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The Week in Review: Bill Nye, Bullying and Boycotts

In this week’s edition, the internet rallies round a little girl who was bullied for liking Star Wars, and Black Ops’ Castro-killing level ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 20, 2010

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New Catherine Trailer Delivers Giant Slice of Weird

The new trailer for Atlus’ first HD game does something impressive; it leaves you feeling like you know less than before you watched ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2010

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TMNT Co-Creator Selling Tons of Turtle Treasures

If you’ve got several thousand dollars to spare, you could bag yourself the Holy Grail of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collectibles. Kevin Eastman, ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2010

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Trailers Are Pretty, But Games Need Demos

No matter how good a trailer might be, it can never tell players everything that they need to know. Like prophets of old, ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2010

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Outcry Over Original Mortal Kombat Understandable, Says Series Creator

NetherRealm’s Ed Boon thinks that the lack of a game rating system back in 1992 meant that the amount of violence in Mortal ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2010

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Valve Heralds New Portal 2 Delay as Its Shortest Ever

You’ll have to wait a little longer to play Portal 2, but cheer up, because it could have been a lot worse. It’s ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2010

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Doom Creator Wants to Make a Kinect Game

There’s hand waving and motion controls in John Carmack’s future, but perhaps not all that much shooting. id Software’s technical director John Carmack, ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2010

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Missionaries Brought the Devil to Japanese Games

Japanese developers have no problem including epic clashes between good and evil in their games, even though the idea is a decidedly Western ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2010

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Spanish Politicians in Hot Water Over Immigrant Bombing Game

Political party tries to shift blame onto the developer as game is condemned for inciting violence and xenophobia. Not every idea can be ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2010

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New Robot Uses Kinect for Peepers

The list of uses for Kinect, other than petting a adorable baby tiger or getting your groove on, just got a little bit ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2010

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Online Auction Dooms Humanity to War Against Terminators

We thought all the technology salvaged from the Terminators had been destroyed. We were wrong. We all get the occasional urge to create ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorNovember 17, 2010

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