Russ Pitts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Reviews

Review: 007 Blood Stone

There’s a level in 007 Blood Stone in which, after having been hounded by the Burmese army in V-22 Osprey, twin rotor, helicopter/plane ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2010

Editor's Note

The Industry’s Seedy Underbelly

To hear the stories, the game industry is allegedly as corrupt as a crime family. Publishers treat developers like indentured servants, withholding pay ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorNovember 2, 2010

The Writers' Room

Open Letter to People Who Make Games

Dear Game Maker People, I’ve been purchasing and playing your products since I was very young. I’ve met many of you at various ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 26, 2010

Editor's Note

Symphony of Destruction

Most of the time we use the word “cinematic” as a joke, but videogames really are becoming more like cinema, i.e. cinematic. You ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 26, 2010

Editor's Note

BFG

Guns. There are few topics more divisive in the politics of America today than gun control, yet games are full of them and ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 19, 2010

Reviews

Review: Fallout: New Vegas

There was a point while playing Fallout: New Vegas when I said to myself, “OK, this is going to be fun.” Up until ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 19, 2010

Editor's Note

I Like To Move It

Motion is one of those things you take for granted until it isn’t there. Being human beings with built-in motion sensors (in your ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 12, 2010

Editor's Note

Geek, Dork, Nerd

I’ve always lived something of a double life. Growing up, I did “normal kid” things like play football, make out with girls behind ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 5, 2010

Reviews

Review: Sonic Adventure XBLA

Yesterday, I decided to party like it was 1999 and fired up the Xbox Live Arcade release of Sonic Adventure, the re-release of ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorOctober 1, 2010

Editor's Note

Editor’s Choice

You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorSeptember 28, 2010

Editor's Note

Sympathy For The Devil

My high school art teacher told me once that she believed I probably had a great deal of talent, but that she would ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorSeptember 21, 2010

Editor's Note

The Red Box Diaries

I remember everything about my first set of Dungeons & Dragons books. They were given to me by an uncle, in the early ...

By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorSeptember 14, 2010

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