Gamer Girlfriend Archive

• 3January 2, 2012

  Gamer Girlfriend: Candy Corn Games

  Try to recall the last time you found yourself playing a new game that—for whatever reason—just wasn’t all that great....

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• 2November 15, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: Love, Jealousy, and Farming

  As husbands go, Mike isn’t the overly possessive type. I’m proud to say that we built our relationship on a...

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• 0October 7, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: A-Puzzling We Will Go

  It’s a well-known truism in gaming (in other words, it is a broad-scale generalization that I totally just made up)...

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• 5September 1, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play (Crappy) Facebook Games

  It all started when I got a message from GameCola’s own Kate Jay. “Hey Vangie,” she said, “I know you...

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• 4July 8, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: Clash of the Titans

  It sucks to be a low-level character in D&D. Sad, but true. Your hit points are crap, you have no...

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• 1May 6, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: The Curse of the Hidden Object Games

  I recently came to the end of what turned out to be an extremely counterproductive, fairly expensive, and slightly embarrassing...

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• 3April 6, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: A Guide to D&D, Part II

  As with any other game, the first—and often most frustrating—step of playing Dungeons & Dragons is learning all the rules....

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• 12February 28, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: A Guide to D&D, Part I

  Not all gaming has to be electronic. Over the last year or so, I’ve been making my first forays into...

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• 3January 31, 2011

  Gamer Girlfriend: An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse

  Once upon a time, gaming was about the games. Do you remember that time? I do. Hell, it wasn’t even...

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• 2December 14, 2010

  Gamer Girlfriend: Alley Cat 2: Rise of the Ninja Kitty

  I think they should make a game about my cat. Her life is an adventure unto itself. See, most cats just...

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