Steve Butts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Reviews

Review: Bejeweled 3

I’ve come to accept that whether or not the world actually needs another version of Bejeweled is actually irrelevant. PopCap’s jewel-matching game has ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorDecember 15, 2010

Reviews

Preview: Total War: Shogun 2

Neither snow, nor rain, nor the ham-handed groping of the TSA agents could keep me from visiting Creative Assembly’s studios last week for ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorDecember 7, 2010

Reviews

Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that games based on movies are almost always terrible. There are a ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorNovember 25, 2010

Editorials

Why the Movie Is Better than the Game

If there’s a successful movie out there that appeals to males aged 18 to 35, you can bet someone somewhere is wondering how ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorNovember 25, 2010

Reviews

Review: Assassin?s Creed Brotherhood

It’s important that you know right from the start that I really loved Assassin’s Creed 2. I loved the Italian Renaissance settings, I ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2010

Reviews

Preview: Homefront

To celebrate the opening of THQ Montreal, projected to be the largest studio in the publisher’s system within five years, THQ invited dozens ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2010

Reviews

Review: Music Game Roundup

Once upon a time, if you asked “Have you played the cool new music game?” everyone knew what you were talking about. Whether ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorNovember 2, 2010

Reviews

Review: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

The original Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the fastest selling Star Wars game of all time, which is kind of a big ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorOctober 29, 2010

Reviews

Review: Medal of Honor

For me, EA’s Medal of Honor series set the standard for World War 2 shooters. After exploding on the PlayStation in 1999, and ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorOctober 15, 2010

Reviews

Ubisoft Unveils “Companion Gaming” Initiative

It was hard to keep up with Ubisoft’s Chris Early in San Francisco last night. Speaking as Ubisoft’s Vice President of Digital Publishing, ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorSeptember 30, 2010

News

Good Old Games Not Really Gone

When an announcement appeared on GoodOldGames.com Sunday saying that the company was “closing down the service,” many gamers were understandably worried about their ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorSeptember 22, 2010

News

Civilization V Special Edition Unboxing

Firaxis and 2K Games managed to make a good thing even better today with the release of the Civilization V Special Edition. If ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorSeptember 21, 2010

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