Shamus Young Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Have you heard about Tera? It’s an action-combat based MMO by the unfortunately named Bluehole Studio. I checked it out it at PAX ...

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I’m sure you saw the story a couple of months ago about Jennifer Hepler, but just in case you missed it, it went ...

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Someone recently asked me why the fan reaction to the Mass Effect 3 ending was so intense, while journalists seemed to barely notice ...

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Note: This article has vague spoilers. It’s not enough to tell you exactly what happened, but it is enough to spoil things for ...

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So, MovieBob has been talking about racism, and like many of his Big Picture videos it’s a great blend of history, opinion, and ...

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I realize it’s old hat to pick on things done by EA’s marketing department. However, every once in a while their awfulness starts ...

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We’ve been shooting stuff in videogames for a long, long time. In fact, the very first videogame was all about two players trying ...

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You’ve probably read the story by now, but for those of you who missed it: A couple of weeks ago, the site Guru3D ...

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There are two stories of videogame “plagarism” going on lately. One is the story of Zynga copying Tiny Tower and making Dream Heights. ...

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Last week I had some harsh things to say about Origin, EA’s new digital distribution marketplace. In particular, I dinged them for their ...

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I am on record as saying that I would like for Steam to have a worthy rival in the digital distribution market. Nothing ...

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I’ve often used this space to complain that advancing graphics technology has made our games smaller and more linear, but I’ve never gone ...