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The Sony PlayStation Network Shutdown
Blog Posts by Michael Gray on The poorly-informed movie reviewer reports on the recent PlayStation Network Shutdown...and Cars 2.
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Duke Nukem Trilogy: Critical Mass (DS)
Reviews by Matt Jonas on 
3 You see a game perched on the store shelf, and you're thinking, "Hey, I've never heard of this game". This happens to me all the time, the most recent examples being Dead To Rights: Retribution, Mindj
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Matches and Matrimony: A Pride and Prejudice Tale (PC)
Reviews by Michael Gray on 3 Matches and Matrimony: A Pride and Prejudice Tale is a hard game to describe. To put it in one sentence, it's a dating sim, based off of Jane Austen novels. And it is basically the greatest game ever.
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Thoughts on Chrono Trigger
Blog Posts by Michael Gray on 4 Michael gives Chrono Trigger one hour to prove itself as Best Game Ever.
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“Silver Dollar Games Not All Bad,” Says Silver Dollar Games
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 2 I received a press release in my inbox the other day—a pretty rare occurrence, perhaps because GameCola's news coverage isn't so much...actually news coverage, as it is coverage of things that I per
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Flash Flood: Thinking with Portals
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on It's been several months since my last "Flash Flood" column, but believe me, I am still alive. That's why it's appropriate for me to make my long-awaited comeback now, in the wake of another long-awai
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Sonic 3D Blast (SG)
Reviews by Matt Jonas on 9 Considered a spin-off to this well-known series, Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (as it's known in PAL territories) is not actually a three-dimensional game. Not in the way it's played, nor in its content;
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Echoes of Sorrow (PC)
Reviews by Vangie Ridgaway on 3 I first played Echoes of Sorrow while I was in the midst of the "hidden object game" craze that took over my life for about two months earlier this year (see this month's "Gamer Girlfriend" for more o
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What the Crap?: Difficulty Settings and Modes
Columns by Mark Freedman on 2 Why, cruel videogame industry, are we forced to play Goldilocks when sitting down to play our games? Games all have their own ideas of what Easy and Hard mean, have different rewards (and sometime none at all) for choosing a more difficult setting, and really produce a schism in groups of people who say they've beaten a game. I really don't care if you've beaten the game on "Super Easy," you shmuck!
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Brink: Apparently Not a Racing Game
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 2 This game called Brink is coming out this week. I don't know anything about Brink. I was avoiding all news posts about Brink, because I thought it was some kind of racing game that offers "high-octane