Russ Pitts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Hands-On: Mafia II

Gamers lucky enough to have played the game Mafia remember a rich, open world setting filled with classic cars, mob violence, emergent police ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 10, 2010

News

Super Meat Boy Comic Book

At every game conference, when you retrieve your credentials, you also get a totebag filled with stuff. And the stuff is usually all ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 10, 2010

Editor's Note

Needs More Cowbell

Games are not always good. This is a sad fact of life as a gamer. As much as we may want them to ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 9, 2010

Editor's Note

Meant to be Broken?

Online Experience Not Rated By the ESRB There’s a reason for that, you know. Because online, anything can happen. It’s not a sealed, ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 2, 2010

Reviews

Reviewing Games at The Escapist: Experiential vs. Evaluative

A few years ago, when we decided to begin reviewing games at The Escapist, we quickly realized we had a big, big problem: ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 2, 2010

Reviews

Review: Aliens vs. Predator

I have to admit that I’ve been struggling with how to review this game. With some games, you can immediately say “it’s good” ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 25, 2010

Editor's Note

Science!!

Science is everywhere. Take a look around. Chances are everything you see and touch has been shaped, in some way, by science. Let’s ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 23, 2010

Editor's Note

The Spy Who Fragged Me

One of the coolest parts of being a life-long videogamer is that, after 30 or so years, I’ve had an opportunity to explore ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 16, 2010

The Spy Who Fragged Me

Why Spy?

The great irony of spy fiction is that spies – the real on-the-ground, in-your-face, bring-home-the-secret-plans guys who are out there right now saving ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 16, 2010

Reviews

Why We’re Using Review Scores

Some of you may have noticed that on Monday, for the first time ever, The Escapist awarded a quantifiable score to a videogame ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2010

Editor's Note

Good Eats

Eating and gaming. Given the Western world’s admittedly serious issues with obesity and over-eating, publishing an issue of The Escapist (a magazine devoted ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2010

Reviews

Review: BioShock 2

Making a sequel to a game as beloved as BioShock can be one of the toughest gigs in the industry. Too many changes ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 8, 2010

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