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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

Super Meat Boy Loves the 90s

News Posts by Paul Franzen on October 12, 2010

The latest trailer for the indie platformer Super Meat Boy comes to us straight from the mad men of the 1990s, complete with deranged spirals, eyeballs, shouting, and the promised destruction of y
Not-So-Great Moments in RPG History

Blog Posts by Mark Freedman on October 12, 20101

With the good comes the bad; am I right, folks? This is a follow-up to my previous "Great Moments" article, but this time, I'm sharing some moments in RPG history that left me wanting less, and put that bad RPG taste in my mouth.
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (X360)

Reviews by Matt Jonas on October 11, 20102

Guitar Hero. We've all played it. We all know what it's about. That saves me twelve paragraphs. There's still that feeling of "we had this exact game last year" in Warriors of Rock, but there's one
X-Men Arcade Game Coming Home

News Posts by Paul Franzen on October 11, 2010

Over the weekend at Fake Comic Con in NYC, Konami announced that it will be porting the classic X-Men arcade game to XBLA and PSN "soon." The game will have six-player online co-op, and holy crap, tha
New Videogame Releases for the Week of October 10, 2010

News Posts by Paul Franzen on October 11, 20102

Super Scribblenauts, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, Invizimals, Ninjabee Critic’s Choice Collection, Dragon’s Lair Trilogy, Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, and more.
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii)

Reviews by Nathaniel Hoover on October 8, 20103

Motion controls? Bah! Fancy-pants three-dee graphics? Who needs 'em? Back in my day, we felt lucky if we had two buttons to press and could tell the hero apart from an 8-bit ketchup stain. The crafty
NBA Jam Shows a Liberal Bias.

News Posts by Paul Franzen on October 8, 20101

Via Go Nintendo, it looks like someone's FINALLY starting to ask EA Sports the hard-hitting questions about NBA Jam. Unfortunately, that "someone" was Fox News, so most of the questions revolve around
Milkmaid Milks Cthulhu (in Super Scribblenauts)

News Posts by Paul Franzen on October 8, 20103

Here's the latest trailer for Super Scribblenauts---sequel to the GameCola award-winner for "Best Portable Game of 2009"---in which the game's Creative Director uses the power of adjectives mollify Cthulhu.
Nintendo Repurposes Another New Game as an Old Game

News Posts by Paul Franzen on October 7, 2010

We've previously heard that Masahiro Sakurai, the producer of Kid Icarus: Uprising, had already come up with the basic idea for the game before deciding which classic Nintendo character to stick in i
Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation

Columns by Eric Regan on October 7, 20101

Welcome to the NEWEST edition of the thumbs that can (...but can't really) see the future! I would NOT like to point out that the last two months have seen more new THUMBS articles than the new GameCo