Features

Feature: Valkyria Chronicles (Part II)

By Lusipurr

This week, Lusipurr.com continues with the second part of its Christmas 2009 site-wide playthrough of Valkyria Chronicles. Valkyria Chronicles is a PlayStation 3 strategy RPG which abandons the grid-based methods of other genre predecessors in favour of an over-the-shoulder battle system. Though the grand overview of battles occurs top-down with the assigning of units to [...]

Editorials

Editorial: It’s Not the Size of the Mini-Game …

By Wedge

As the old adage goes, it is not the size of the thing that matters, it is what you do with it. In this case, it is not the size of the mini-game that matters, but rather how much freaking time I spend obsessively, compulsively playing it. Mini-games are nothing new, and come in all [...]

Reviews

Review: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

By Bup

Konami and Climax Studios re-imagine the Silent Hill franchise with the latest installment in the series Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Shattered Memories allows the player to enter the shoes of Harry Mason on his quest to find his missing daughter Cheryl after a car accident in the town of Silent Hill.  The Wii version of the [...]

Podcasts

MAP Episode 43: Kiss It

By Lusipurr

Produced 2009.12.13 Another week, another stinker. Exhausted after another night spent in gaol for drunk & disorderly conduct, Oliver is as noncommital as ever. Nate tries to engage him, only to find himself thwarted by Eric J’s savage punnery. Meanwhile, Lusipurr weeps.

Features

Feature: Valkyria Chronicles (Part I)

By Lusipurr

Lusipurr.com kicks off its Christmas 2009 site-wide playthrough of Valkyria Chronicles today! Valkyria Chronicles is a PlayStation 3 strategy RPG which abandons the grid-based methods of other genre predecessors in favour of an over-the-shoulder battle system. Though the grand overview of battles occurs top-down with the assigning of units to the field, the actual battle [...]

Reviews

Review: World of Warcraft: Fall of the Lich King

By TheFallenSun
ARTHAS!

Seven years ago a story began in the world of computer gaming. A classic RTS series began to branch off into attempting to tell a story via strategic gameplay, a story that would capture the minds of a generation of gamers, and introduce more people to the world of Azeroth. The fate of Prince Arthas [...]

Editorials

Review: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness

By Wedge

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, received its North American release in August 2003 and helped cement Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) as a fan-favourite publisher and developer. This was only the third game NIS released in North America, pre-dating NIS America (NISA), and was published by Atlus. This inaugural chapter in the Disgaea series chronicles the misadventures [...]

Reviews

Review: Wolfenstein

By Bup

Raven Software, id Software, Pi Studios, and Endrant Studios add to the saga started with the “Granddaddy of First Person Shooters” with the 2009 release of Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein continues of the story of B.J. Blazkowicz, a highly respected agent with the OSA during World War II on a mission to free the fictional city of [...]