Russ Pitts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Go Big or Go Home – Netflix Courts Fincher’s New Series

In a sign of the increasingly competitive nature of the internet television market, movie rental giant Netflix has now turned its attention to ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 16, 2011

Reviews

Homefront Review

Homefront really pisses me off. I don’t mean in that controller-throwing, armchair-beating, small-animal-kicking way that the most difficult and frustrating games elicit (although ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011

Editor's Note

Exploding Barrels

What’s in a cliché? Games get a bad rap for leaning heavily on what we consider tropes like, for example, the exploding barrel. ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2011

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Videogame History Frozen in Time – Literally

Designer Roger Ibars turns 100 legacy gaming controllers into alarm clocks. If you’re like me, you have about a bajillion old gaming controllers ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 11, 2011

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Making Pimpin’ Games Ain’t Easy, says Bulletstorm Dev

As if making games isn’t hard enough, says People Can Fly’s Lead Gameplay Designer Ed Kay, sometimes the companies you work for make ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 11, 2011

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High Voltage Software Apologizes for Upcoming Conduit 2‘s Awesomeness

We receive a lot of letters at The Escapist. Most, I have to admit, don’t get more than a cursory glance – especially ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 10, 2011

Editor's Note

What I Learned from Games & Comics

I don’t have as long and storied a history with comics as some of my peers. I read them growing up, sure, but ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorMarch 1, 2011

Reviews

Review: Bulletstorm

Unless you actually have a life and do things other than sit at your computer refreshing videogaming websites over and over and over ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 22, 2011

Editor's Note

Shit My Dad Plays

The Generation Gap isn’t what it used to be, but it still exists. When the term was first coined was its heyday. The ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 22, 2011

Editor's Note

Bloodsucking Freaks

It could be said that the 21st Century is the Century of the Vampire. Between True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and Twilight, there ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 15, 2011

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Bulletstorm Just “One of Many” Adult-Oriented Games, Says Steinberg

Refuting the scaremongering from Fox News suggesting Epic Games’ and People Can Fly’s latest title Bulletstorm may “make you a rapist” and could ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 10, 2011

Reviews

Preview: Bulletstorm

It takes a hour or so to get any real feel for Bulletstorm. For some games, that’s an indictment. Hell, I’ll usually drop ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorFebruary 8, 2011

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