Russ Pitts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: Brain Wiped in Soho

If games really are the art of the modern age (and the evidence is mounting they are), then GDC’s annual Experimental Gameplay Sessions ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 22, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: The Awards

I almost asked for my money back. Then I remembered I hadn’t paid to get in, and, in fact, had been given a ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 21, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: Yahtzee Does X-Play

It wasn’t until I was shaking Morgan Webb’s hand that the absurdity of the entire situation came crashing down on me. We were ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 21, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: Ken Levine’s Storytelling Secrets

“I pissed off a lot of people on the project because my storytelling came in late, ” said Ken Levine, towards the end ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 21, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: The Microsoft Keynote

At this year’s Microsoft keynote, the focus was on establishing cred. John Schappert, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s game and Live group (Peter ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: Too Human First Look

It’s been a long road for Silicon Knights’ Too Human. A disappointing showing at E3 led to delays, which led to suggestions the ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: The Hollywood of the Game Industry

I’m sailing down through the clouds over the San Francisco Bay, and my first thought isn’t about how great it is to be ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: Jamil Moledina: Probing the Mind of GDC, Part Two

Yesterday we ran part one of our exclusive interview with Jamil Moledina, Executive Director of the Game Developer Conference, the five-day convention in ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2008

GDC 2008

GDC 2008: Jamil Moledina: Probing the Mind of GDC, Part One

A few years ago, everyone in the game industry looked forward to May. That was when the E3 Expo took place, and everyone ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 18, 2008

Editor's Note

The Escapist Re-Visited

We use the term “ivory tower” quite a bit in day-to-day English. And we don’t usually use it positively. The term, in modern ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 18, 2008

Smile and Nod

Yahtzee Goes to Hollywood: Zero Punctuation Previews on G4’s X-Play

I have to be perfectly up front about this: I hadn’t seen X-Play for about five years until a few months ago. Not ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 13, 2008

Lost in Space

My Own Private Outer Space

“In the year 1987, NASA launched the last of America’s deep space probes.”– Buck Rogers I used to fly space ships. I’d take ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 12, 2008

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