• Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii)

    ...blade, or tear individual enemies apart with quick little (metal) paper cuts from a short blade. Short and long—hey, just like Morse code! Maybe the game’s name was mistranslated and...

  • Player Two: Web Comics

    ...instead of just comics, it still stands in my mind as one of the more powerful forces in gamer comics today. Why? Because Scott Kurtz, while seemingly professional, is not....

  • Tales of Vesperia (X360)

    ...here and there. All menu interfaces are clean with changeable fonts. The graphics are incredible—the kind of cel-shaded and luscious painted effect that was used in Another Code: R, and...

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    ...A for left, S, and D, etc.) but I have yet to figure out a smooth way to execute this in code, so I’ll just sit on it for another...

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    It’s a Different Kind of Gaming

    ...Compare Dante’s Inferno with Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Film has evolved: Compare Charlie Chaplin to Brad Pitt. And gaming has definitely evolved: Notice a difference between Burger Time...

  • Submissions (April 15, 2006)

    ...the guy code that I don’t know about? I bet it’s on the same page as “Thou shalt love sports with a passion” and “Thou shalt wear thine baseball caps...

  • Recoil (PC)

    ...briefing team. That is, if you can see them through the forest of binary code 1s and 0s that plague the screen at any given moment. Recoil is a simple...

  • Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (PC)

    ...sir.” Crosswords, code-breakers, conundrums, and the like aren’t a moment’s challenge for Nelson. He doesn’t do far more at work than complete crossword puzzles in the newspaper. (That’s a nice...

  • Hyperballoid HD: Original Worlds DLC Review

    ...not the latter, because it seems everyone who was sent a redeem code, other than us, sugarcoated the game to try to appear on the reviews page.) At least by...

  • Cheat Codes for Getting Out of Your Damn House

    ...I’ve combined my tepidly-popular Cheat Codes for Life column with my forgettable Get Out of Your Damn House column. This is my farewell article to GameCola. After this month, I...