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Awful tutorials, confounding gameplay, questionable character design, and gacha mechanics. Hard to believe it's one of my favorite games, but it is. Here's why...

GC Podcast #182: Patently Absurd

You've been served!

[NSFW] Metroid Fusion (GBA)

The big N didn't do too many horrid things to Samus...

Disregard Canon, Acquire Representation: Naoto Shirogane is a Transman

Why accept the canon explanation when the story could be so much more interesting?

Enviro-Bear 2000: Operation: Hibernation (PC)

In 2009, Justin Smith ventured forth with a game that would change the gaming industry forever. A title that would blow the fish out of the water. A game for FREE that beats the living daylights out o

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 don't usually play Facebook games, but you might want to give this one a try. It's really a lot of

Garry's Mod (PC)

When is a game not a game?

[NSFW] Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled (DS)

So dutifully trying to be Chrono Trigger it's both admirable and depressing at the same time.

Shall We Date?: Wizardess Heart (iOS)

The Harry Potter dating sim we've all been waiting for! Kind of.

[NSFW] Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)

A fan of the Final Fantasy series? Maybe not after you play this one...

Latest Articles

Versus Mode: The Next-Gen, FMV Games, XBLI Garbage, and More

Columns by GameCola on November 22, 2010

XBLI developer Robert Boyd and GC staff writer Christian Porter discuss whether we're ready for the next-gen, FMV games, garbage on XBLI, and more.
Another Time Travel Game Announced!

News Posts by Paul Franzen on November 22, 20101

Atlus announced today that it's bringing the time travel-centric RPG Radiant Historia to the U.S. next February. Why should you be excited? What, are you new? Time travel, man! Time travel! That's som
New Videogame Releases for the Week of November 21, 2010

News Posts by Paul Franzen on November 22, 2010

Donkey Kong Country Returns, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, Splatterhouse, Gran Turismo 5, Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time, Michael Jackson The Experience, Drawn to Life Collection, Spelunker HD, Auditorium, Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earrings, Silly Bandz, and more.
Steam Heroes (XBLIG)

Reviews by Christian Porter on November 21, 20104

There's a lot of Xbox Live Indie Games that pass through here for review and, frankly, most of them are terrible and I just can't be bothered to review them all. So, I've been working off of this fl
Impaired Closed Captioning: Super Mario Bros. 2

Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on November 19, 20104

In early 2010, Google introduced a Transcribe Audio feature to YouTube that translated all speech in a video into useful captions mangled the heck out of my Mega Man videos, telling my viewers that "w
Enviro-Bear 2000: Operation: Hibernation (PC)

Reviews by Matt Jonas on November 18, 20103

In 2009, Justin Smith ventured forth with a game that would change the gaming industry forever. A title that would blow the fish out of the water. A game for FREE that beats the living daylights out o
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Announced!

News Posts by Paul Franzen on November 18, 20101

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
OnLive MicroConsole Now Available for Pre-Order

News Posts by Paul Franzen on November 18, 2010

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
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (X360) [NSFW]

Reviews by Matt Jonas on November 17, 20108

The other day, I scuttled off to my local mega-mart, where they have recently started accepting videogame trade-ins. I decided toLet me get this out of the way: TITS. HUMONGOUS WOBBLY STONKING GREAT B
A Very GameCola Wedding

Blog Posts by Michael Ridgaway on November 16, 20106

Hello all! So as some of you may have heard, I and Evangeline Rich of "Gamer Girlfriend" have tied the knot. The new Ms. Ridgaway has already posted a very lovely recap of the wedding and her feelings