Shamus Young Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

DLC, Again

Before I get started, I need to make peace with some readers. Last week I lambasted the people who review-bombed Portal 2 because ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 29, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels #255: The Veep

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] The mantra with the PlayStation 3 was that the online service was free. I’ll bet it’s feeling a lot less free ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 29, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels: A Hat for Every Head

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] I didn’t understand the position that “These Portal 2 hats are worthless, therefore we should get them for free.” Obviously if ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 26, 2011

Experienced Points

DLC for Dummies

In the process of writing this column, my blog, my webcomic, and my video series, I get to hear from a lot of ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels #253: The Playboy

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] Mafia II has this collection mini-game where you collect Playboy magazines. Vito apparently doesn’t know how to buy himself a subscription, ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels #252: Tutorialized

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] The tutorial for Homefront is a micro-managing tyrant, with very strict ideas about what you need to do in order to ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 19, 2011

Reviews

Stolen Pixels #251: Everyone Else is Wrong

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] (Note: I made this comic using ToonDoo, pretty much because I wanted to screw around with it. I mention this because ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 15, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels #250: A Friendship Built with Lego

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] The Lego Star Wars series is an interesting beast. It began as something new, exciting, and unexpected. For a limited budget, ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 12, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels #249: Division of Laborer

[folder_nav] [folder_nav] The monsters in Dead Space 2 sometimes strayed into the comical. There was so much oozing and screaming, and so many ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 8, 2011

Experienced Points

The Dumbification of Gaming

Gaming forums are filled with arguing, trolling, flaming, outrage, and paranoia. Actually, I guess all internet forums are like that. Actually, I guess ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 7, 2011

Stolen Pixels

Stolen Pixels #248: HI MOM!

[folder_nav] [folder_nav]The Extra Credits guys have already explained why the Dead Space 2 “Your mom hates this” campaign was a stupid, irresponsible idea. ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 5, 2011

Experienced Points

Maximum Color

I am on the record as saying that I think that continually spending more money on graphics is foolish. It’s not that I ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorApril 1, 2011

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