Featured Articles
Latest Articles
-
New Videogame Releases for the Week of November 21, 2010
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 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 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 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 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 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 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
-
A Very GameCola Wedding
Blog Posts by Michael Ridgaway on 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
-
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
-
Gamer Girlfriend: An Obscure Prestige Class, Indeed
Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on Well, it’s official: after ten months of planning, organizing, coordinating, arranging, rearranging, and generally unleashing my Bridezilla Fury upon the world, I have finally attained the status of Gamer Wife. Along with the accompanying name changes and the addition of a new ring to the third finger of my left hand, I’ve noticed that the attainment of this obscure prestige class has caused a noticeable shift in how I view myself. Not only am I now the wife of a gamer, I can no longer deny that I myself have some “more-than-casual” gaming tendencies.
