Shamus Young Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Stolen Pixels #10: Gameplay Tutorial

[folder_nav][folder_nav] In Assassin’s Creed you play as the world’s most helpless and docile assassin. Captured by an evil corporation and subjected to experimental ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorAugust 8, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #9: A Server Is a Way of Life

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Take a look at your average Internet forum and you’ll see a legion of chattering ninnies soiling the place with their trolling, ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorAugust 5, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #8: Just Between us Girls

[folder_nav][folder_nav] What happens in Goldshire, stays in Goldshire. (One hopes.) For those of you lucky enough to have missed the life-sucking, relationship-destroying, productivity-eating ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorAugust 1, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #7: Vulture Milk

[folder_nav][folder_nav] I’m not sure what it means when the unaltered mechanics of your videogame can serve as the punchline for a joke, but ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 29, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #6: Beware the Quest Giver

[folder_nav][folder_nav] In World of Warcraft – as with most other MMOG’s – the rule seems to be that every hero must begin his ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 25, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #5: Every Shade of Brown

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Guild Wars (Prophesies campaign) is a detailed study in the color brown. It has dark brown trees on light brown hilltops overlooking ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 22, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #4: Epic Message

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Playing Unreal Tournament 3 for the first time is like coming home to find your girlfriend has thrown all your stuff into ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 18, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #3: Artificial Idiocy

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Development of robust AI is difficult work, but the guys at Epic have been at it for a long time. I was ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 15, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #2: Capturing the Something

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Unreal Tournament 3 goes to great lengths to pretend that capture the flag matches are something besides capture the flag. You’re still ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #1: Surreal Tournament

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Imagine you get together with a friend to play a little ping-pong. Only, your friend feels that the game needs a story. ...

By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorJuly 8, 2008

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