• E3 2012: The Microsoft Press Conference

    ...a new and mature direction.” I think that’s code for “let’s see how much horrible stuff we can put Lara Croft through.” First, villains open fire on her, and she...

  • Contest Results

    ...wants to turn the apocalypse into an a-cop-alypse. Congratulations to BaozakergaX! Email mgray@gamecola.net for your Steam download code, so you can play Resonance yourself and root for the police officer!...

  • Fabricated News: E3 Predictions

    ...proudly give “exclusive looks” at their upcoming games, because they know “exclusive looks” is code for “free advertising.” I actually did some research on this topic, and games that you...

  • Gamer Girlfriend: Love, Jealousy, and Farming

    ...affections, but he was also a bro, dammit, and the Code of Manly Solidarity did not permit him to stand idly by while another man was being so slighted. Jealousy...

  • The Ten Reasons: Space Quest Collection

    ...the game, where a specially crafted congratulatory message waits with extra snark for cheaters like you? Or blindly punching in a specific code in SQIV‘s time machine and ending up...

  • Spider-Man (PC)

    ...it’s very hard! You can also enter cheat codes if you get stuck, or want to get the other costumes early, or if you’re lazy like me, UNLOCK EVERYTHING! Another...

  • Madden NFL ’94 (SNES)

    ...it “in the game”? Is “it” the American football spirit, the pride and quality of the American software developer, or something more literal like assembly code? Another unsolved mystery. But,...

  • Nintendo Publishing Girls RPG, For Girls

    ...possible that it’s a deep, engrossing RPG that just happens to star a girl, and they’ve picked a really unfortunate code-name that makes it sound like it’s nothing but complete...

  • GameStop Makes Up for the Deus Ex Thing

    ...purchased Deux Ex: Human Revolution from the evil retail outlet and didn’t receive the appropriate OnLive coupon code. Joystiq also reports that they’re offering a “Buy 2, Get 1 Free”...

  • Puzzle Agent 2 (PC)

    ...these were easy to code—that all it took was a graphical switchover and some slight rejiggering. The story now travels completely linearly. If someone doesn’t give you the clues you...