Russ Pitts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

The Rainmakers

“EA is a Startup”

Joe Ybarra is currently the Vice President of Product Development at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the company attempting to bring the Stargate franchise to ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 6, 2007

Interviews

Joe Ybarra on Stargate Worlds: Part One

Last September I had the pleasure to sit down with some of the senior staff at Cheyenne Mountain, the team behind the upcoming ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 5, 2007

News

Media Manipulation

As anyone in Washington can tell you, the easiest way to turn rumor into reality is to refuse to confirm or deny it. ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 2, 2007

News

G.A.N.G. Awards Finalist

I just found out that I have apparently been nominated for a G.A.N.G. (Game Audio Network Guild) award for an article I wrote ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 1, 2007

Op-Ed

Pushing the Envelope: Red 5 Recruiting

“This is Mark Kern, President of Red 5 Studios and former team lead for World of Warcraft.” The FedEx box has my name ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 28, 2007

Reviews

Review: Sonic and the Secret Rings

As with most Sonic games post Sonic Adventure (some would say post Sonic 2), Sonic and the Secret Rings suffers not from what ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 26, 2007

Op-Ed

What Team Humidor is Playing

Every once in a while, we realize we have nothing to publish on Thursday. This usually happens when we’ve been too busy playing ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 22, 2007

Sega!

Requiem for a Dreamcast

We were having the office debate to end all office debates. Granted, debates are fairly typical, most occurring over who moved whoever’s cheese, ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 20, 2007

Op-Ed

No Time for a Second Life

I feel like I’m attacking the darkness. I’m torn as to why. It’s either because A) I’m the only one not being sucked ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2007

Op-Ed

Fishing for Second Life: Wide Net, Large Holes

It’s the Seinfeld of MMOGs: It’s about everything and, simultaneously, nothing. As Linden Labs, its creator, has repeatedly asserted, Second Life is not ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 16, 2007

News

King of Nerd Mountain

It’s time. I’ve decided that I must now enter the Wii Generation. I have to have one. I played it at E3 and ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 13, 2007

Op-Ed

Don’t Shoot Food: How to Turn that “Friend” Into Girl Gamer Bait

The marketing logic goes like this: Hot chicks sell things. Got a “thing”? Slap a hot chick on it, and it’ll sell. Period. ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 12, 2007

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