Steve Butts Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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E3 Preview: SimCity (2013)

Ten years is too long to wait for another SimCity, especially if all you’ve had to tide you over is the objectively terrible ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 4, 2012

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E3: Lego Lord of the Rings

It seemed like such a sure hit, most of us wondered why it took so long. Well, the wait is over; today, Warner ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorJune 1, 2012

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier Review

There’s a bit of an arms race in the shooter genre. One game blows up a helicopter, so the next game blows up ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMay 30, 2012

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E3: Hands On with Company of Heroes 2

Relic’s game director, Quinn Duffy, opened the demo with the words I wanted to hear: “We didn’t want to do different; we wanted ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMay 23, 2012

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XCOM Enemy Unknown

Given how long fans have been waiting for the XCOM sequel, it would be almost impossible for Firaxis’s remake to live up to ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2012

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E3: Go “Undercover” Again in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Treyarch’s studio head, Mark Lamia, recently gave me a sneak peak at the upcoming E3 demo. We’d already learned from the recent Frank ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMay 22, 2012

Misc

The Escapist Expo

We’ve been planning it for a while and now the news is out: The Escapist is launching its own consumer focused convention this ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorApril 19, 2012

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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Hands On

Ghost Recon always does it for me in a way that most other modern military shooters just don’t. Part of it is that ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorApril 12, 2012

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Assassin’s Creed III

There were a lot of changes to note in Ubisoft’s recent demo of the new Assassin’s Creed III. After spending so much time ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMarch 26, 2012

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Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Hands On

Despite the mixed critical reaction, Disney’s Epic Mickey is the best selling single platform game in Disney Interactive Studios’ history, which makes the ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMarch 23, 2012

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GDC 2012: Quantum Conundrum

Quantum Conundrum‘s comparisons to Portal are well deserved. Both have a wacky sense of humor, a crazy scientific setting, and use a few ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMarch 9, 2012

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GDC 2012: Sins of a Dark Age

Ironclad’s new Sins of a Dark Age has me on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, I’m not a fan ...

By Steve Butts Legacy AuthorMarch 9, 2012

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