Monthly Archives: August 2009
Editorial: Gamers, Games, and The Game

Game writers have put gamers in the spotlight as potential players of “the Game,” a method of manipulation and subterfuge meant to provide people with easy answers to the often-messy world of romantic relationships. Gamers, however, should realize the purveyors of “the Game” are no different than the pushers of cheats, exploits and hacks: callous profiteers that have no respect for either players or the game itself.
Review: Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta

Space really is the final frontier with the recent release of Bethesda’s final Fallout 3 DLC titled Mothership Zeta. In Zeta, the player is abducted by an alien spaceship and must fight his or her way out, or be cyrogenically frozen and tested on for all time. The new DLC adds new alien weapons, characters, [...]
Editorial: Pointless Games: Hexic Edition

Recently, I have been stranded alone in my apartment with all of Lusipurr’s games. At such a crossroads the sensible gamer would delve into games she has never played before. She would greedily become engrossed in those 360 and PS3 titles she has yet to play. This gamer, however, has never been very sensible. Instead [...]
MAP Episode 26: The Sims
Review: WoW: Call of the Crusade
Editorial: Growing Up in an RPG

This is an article which may cause some eyes to roll, but hopefully it will also cause some of you to smile nostalgically and nod. After compiling last week’s list of villains, I began thinking about which heroes I like, and I found myself being immediately reminded that video game heroes suffer from stereotypitis, and [...]
Editorial: Give Me More Good Old West Games!
With my recent play-through of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, I have been wondering why there are so few good old west games. As some of the regular listeners of the podcast may know, I am a huge fan of the old west in general. With the upcoming release of Red Dead Redemption, I [...]



