• Versus Mode: Vegetarian Videogames, UFC, Country Music, and More

    ...at the arcade stringing together cheap throw combos with Dahlsim or Balrog in Street Fighter II Turbo. Just the lowest common denominator. Stuart: Ideally, country music shouldn’t be allowed, period....

  • BLACK (MXB)

    ...designers cheap out and block your path with tiny piles of debris and even invisible walls. “I could reach that secret stash of ammo if it weren’t for this wooden...

  • Weirdness at Waverly Academy

    ...the room was a girl with pink and black hair. “AAAAAAAAAA!” Nancy screamed. “TOO…MUCH…PINK!” Nancy turned and ran out the door at top speed. [Article adapted from Michael Gray’s blog.]...

  • Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright

    ...like a Nancy Drew/Phoenix Wright/Professor Layton game and– [Article left unfinished because Michael’s brain just exploded from considering that possibility.] [Reprinted from the blog of former staff writer, Michael Gray.]...

  • Replay Value

    ...What makes it worthy of another play? This is a blog post, so I’ll be talking about my own personal feelings and experiences. Let me know your feelings about replay...

  • Non-Gaming Gaming Podcasts

    ...your favorite? * We also—this is absolutely, 100% true—had a teacher who was moonlighting as an Elvis impersonator. I can’t make stuff like that up. [Adapted from Paul Franzen’s blog.]...

  • 2011 Games of the Year?

    ...I’ve made it clear to my staff that I will fire anyone who doesn’t vote for it. What’s your favorite game from 2011 so far? [Adapted from Paul Franzen’s blog.]...

  • GameCola at E3 2012

    ...scrape together a few semi-recent articles that I did for GameCola. In reality, I just copy/pasted them from my blog, but don’t tell that to E3. I sent in the...

  • “Girlfriend Mode”: Keeping the Argument Civil

    ...a big mistake and tout the feminist qualities of the person who originally made the comment. Borderlands 2’s Mecromancer: the face that launched a thousand blog posts. OK, so the...

  • Adventure Games Live!

    ...do adventure games nowadays like referencing Monkey Island in their promotional materials. (Adapted from this post on my gamedev blog, which was adapted from this post on the GameDev.net forums.)...