Patrick Lee, Author at The Escapist

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Detention Film Adaptation Recreates the Source Material and the Horrors of Martial Law

Warner Bros Pictures Taiwan has released a trailer for Detention, a film adaptation of the 2017 indie horror game of the same name ...

By Patrick LeeJune 21, 2019

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Disaster Report 4 Climbs Out of a Decade-Long Debacle

In a Last Guardian-esque story of long-delayed fruition, NIS America announced today that the once-cancelled fourth entry in the crisis simulation Disaster Report ...

By Patrick LeeJune 20, 2019

Star Wars Battlefront II cut campaign mission, modes, modders unearth EA DICE content

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EA Games: People Love Loot Boxes, Please Don’t Make Them Illegal

EA Games defended its use of loot box mechanics to the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee yesterday during an investigation ...

By Patrick LeeJune 20, 2019

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Tetsuya Nomura: Yes, Final Fantasy VII Remake Has Cross-Dressing. And Abs.

A Weekly Famitsu interview with Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura has revealed new details about the upcoming title, half of which ...

By Patrick LeeJune 19, 2019

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Metroid Prime 4 Still Needs an Art Director Two Years After Its Announcement

Texas-based Retro Studios posted to Twitter yesterday that it is hiring an art director for Metroid Prime 4. The listed responsibilities of the ...

By Patrick LeeJune 19, 2019

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Bernie Sanders on Twitter: Game Developers Rise Up

In what promises to be an uncomplicated and uncontroversial blip of news, Democratic presidential candidate and self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders weighed in ...

By Patrick LeeJune 18, 2019

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Leaked Monster Hunter Movie Trailer Reveals Game-Accurate Monsters, Game-Inaccurate Milla Jovovich

A teaser trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s upcoming Monster Hunter film has leaked. The trailer was recorded on a cell phone by an ...

By Patrick LeeJune 18, 2019

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Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Dizzying Scale Clarified By Yoshinori Kitase

Final Fantasy series producer Yoshinori Kitase has published a blog post at the official Square Enix blog giving a top-down outline and mission ...

By Patrick LeeJune 17, 2019

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Zelda: Majora’s Mask Maestro Eiji Aonuma Promoted, Looms Eerily Over Nintendo

Nintendo has promoted several of its key production staff to managerial positions. Included in this slate of promotions were longtime shepherd of the ...

By Patrick LeeJune 17, 2019

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Luigi’s Mansion 3 Features Improved Combat, Gelatinous Doppelgangers, Elevator Repair

Between the princess rescuing and the go-karting it can be difficult to remember that the Mario brothers are supposed to be blue collar ...

By Patrick LeeJune 14, 2019

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Pokémon Sword and Shield’s New Look is Not Enough

There’s no longer anything pocket-sized about Nintendo’s Pocket Monsters. 1998’s Pokémon Red and Blue crammed 150 beasties — rendered as stationary cardboard-cutout sprites ...

By Patrick LeeJune 14, 2019

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E3 2019 Hands-on: Doom Eternal’s Demons More Fun to Kill than Wolfenstein’s Nazis

“If it was possible to improve on 2016’s Doom, Doom Eternal does it.” Appropriately for a series all about taking everything completely over ...

By Patrick LeeJune 13, 2019

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