Monthly Archives: November 2009
Contest: Dragon Age: Origins Giveaway

Lusipurr.com is pleased to announce its first-ever game giveaway! Do you want to win a copy of Dragon Age: Origins? Of course you do! Here’s how: simply refer your friends to the site and convince them to post a substantial comment that contributes to a discussion on a review, editorial, or podcast. For each friend [...]
Editorial: Ooey-GUI (A How-To)

This space could be dedicated to a Dragon Age: Origins review. Really, it could, but listing everything I think about that game would likely cut in to my time to play said game, and we cannot have that. So instead, constant readers, you will receive a post about my WoW UI. Every WoW player has [...]
Editorial: Music Makes the Games Go 'Round
Recently, on MAP if I am not mistaken (and I seldom am!) I had a brief discussion about video game music. Last evening over dinner the topic came up again as my friends and I tried to figure out what game’s score the ambient music in the restaurant reminded us of. All of this got [...]
Review: Borderlands

Gearbox Software adds another excellent title to the First-Person Shooter genre with the recent release of Borderlands. Borderlands takes place in the far future on the planet Pandora, long since abandoned by its settlers, and now just a haven for criminals and castaways. The player fills the shoes of one of these castaways, all with [...]
Eric James Jordan ("Eric J")
MAP Episode 38: Your First Giveaway
Editorial: In Which Much Is Revealed About Competition
Hey, it’s short. Don’t look gift horses in the mouth.
Editorial: What's in a Name?

Hello again, Lusi-sprites. It is Thursday which means someone in my household gets paid and will be bringing home Chinese take-out (yum!) and, more importantly for you all, I will be treating you all to my random weekly ramblings. This week my quirky ol’ brain is fixated upon character names. Due to the ever-increasing popularity [...]
Editorial: Using Game Journalists as Free Advertising
One of the podcasts I listen to, more specifically the Rebel FM podcast, brought up an interesting issue in a recent episode: do game companies use game journalists as free advertising or public relation agents? When I heard this, it got me thinking: how often do I buy a game based on a journalist’s opinion [...]


