In 1996 Squaresoft brought us Treasure of the Rudras, and alas, most of us missed it. It was one of the last titles released on the Super Famicon and it was considered too late in the console’s life cycle to bother with an English translation. By the time that would have been possible, it would [...]
One of the great strengths of our western game industry, and one of the fatal weaknesses for japan, has been our industry’s ability to learn from the failures and successes of past endeavors, and thereby to continually return consecutive products which are something approaching world’s best practice with respect to human design considerations. That is [...]
Produced 2010.09.26 With virtually no gaming industry news to report on, the podcast panel decides to try their hand at the grown-up job of reporting the real news. Now, Lusipurr.com is your home for world news and weather from several days ago!
Status Effect: Flaming Hair Here in America, we love us some dead celebrities. All the power of their glorious name with none of the royalty checks, its win-win! This week, in an interview with USA Today, entertainment firm SEE Virtual Worlds detailed their plans to exploit one of the most exploitable celebrity names of all: [...]
Violence is cool. There is no other way to go about saying it; it is. Violent actions taken by an individual against another without provocation or necessity are wrong, both morally and criminally. My day is literally filled with arguing for the official censure of such behavior. But that does not take away the inherent [...]
Howdy-do, Lusi-sprites! On the last MAP, we briefly discussed Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, and the surpriisngly positive feedback it has received from reviewers and the gaming community at large. Overwhelmed by the pure kawaii of the game’s title and description, I hurried to Steam to purchase it and subsequently beat it into the ground. [...]
Nintendo and Level-5 bring players another adventure in the lives of Professor Herschel Layton and Luke with the recent release of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. Unwound Future places players in the shoes of Professor Layton and his assistant Luke as they try to solve the mysteries of a disappearing prime minister and the [...]
It is hard to believe that it was but a few short years ago that independent game studios were as common as Tennesseans, churning out as many quality titles as Murfreesboroan fishwives popped out unwanted, unloved babies. It felt like those long days of golden sunshine and innocent laughter, palling about with friends and loved [...]
Produced 2010.09.19 Darth Lane uses the force to ensure that the panelists eagerly report on the Tokyo Game Show, show their love for Activision games, and profess their unswerving belief in the right-minded thinking of Emperor Kotick. All hail the GLOBAL ACTIVISION EMPIRE!
If you are entirely oblivious to the world of video game conventions, then you are a moron. Furthermore, you would not know that today begins the third day of the Tokyo Game Show, which will be wrapping up tomorrow. Unlike this year’s E3 or even the recent Penny Arcade Expo, the amount of news relevant [...]