Archive for Author: Paul Franzen
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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Announced!
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 
1 You know, I keep getting amped up for these LEGO games, because I loved the crap out of LEGO Star Wars (it was even voted as GameCola's Game of the Year for 2006!), but I've never actually played any
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OnLive MicroConsole Now Available for Pre-Order
News Posts by Paul Franzen on Big news, everyone! Joystiq reports that the OnLive MicroConsole is actually a thing, rather than a fever dream we all had after one too many free energy drink samples at last year's E3. Not only doe
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Donkey Kong Country Returns is Terrifying
News Posts by Paul Franzen on My fiancée and I have been playing a lot of Kirby's Epic Yarn lately, and holy crap, Donkey Kong Country Returns is pretty much the exact opposite of that. Whereas Kirby has cute enemies made out of
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Marty McFly’s Voice Actor Plays “Johnny B. Goode”!
News Posts by Paul Franzen on And he even does the dancing from the movie, and everything! Check it out.
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Sly 4 Sneakily Announced (?)
News Posts by Paul Franzen on Last week saw the release of the HD-enabled Sly Collection for the PS3. Now that people have had a chance to get their greasy gamer mitts on it, they've discovered that earning all three (!) of the g
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New Videogame Releases for the Week of November 14, 2010
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 2 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood; Sonic Colors; Create; Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem; Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit; Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors; uDraw Studio; Dood's Big Adventure; Pictionary, and more.
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XBLI Devs to Combat the Pudding
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 2 Apparently I'm not the only one who's noticed that the Xbox Live Indie Games service is about 95% crap, and 5% wonderful---the developers themselves have noticed, too, and they are pissed. Pissed that
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Octodad Way More Interesting Than Octomom
News Posts by Paul Franzen on Recently on GameCola, I described the Xbox Live Indie Game Excruciating Guitar Voyage as one of the weirdest and funniest games I've ever seen. The game I'm about to show you comes pretty darn close t
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Xbox Live Indie Games Return to Earth!
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 1 You heard it here first! Or, possibly second, if you've visited Kotaku this morning...or third, if you turned on your Xbox... Anyway, my point is that Microsoft has caved, and they put Xbox Live Indie
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
Columns by Paul Franzen on Early last week, GameCola reported on some new changes that Microsoft made to the Xbox 360 dashboard, in an effort to accommodate Kinect users, and slowly shift the balance of power over from actual gamers to casual gamers. THE END IS OF GAMING NIGH! In addition to enabling support for the Kinect, the new dashboard update made everything brighter, friendlier, and cleaner; allowed for easier access to ESPN (which I'm pretty sure you don't need an Xbox to watch); and, most importantly, it moved where you can find Xbox Live Indie Games on the 360.