• Silent Hill (PS1)

    ...character)’s pocket light is also one of the neatest uses of light-sourcing I have ever seen. I wasn’t as impressed with anything similar until Code: Veronica. The characters’ lack of...

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    It’s a Different Kind of Gaming

    ...game: I was Gordon Freeman. I knew what Gordon Freeman knew, because I was never taken out of character. I wasn’t given a cutscene to explain why I did something,...

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    ...shoes. Things to do/new features of note: New voice acting! Be sure to check out the cutscene with Lily in the woods; I actually really like how this turned out....

  • 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...

  • Player Two: Web Comics

    ...normal news sites (IGN, Gamespot) and look to PA for what’s new and interesting. In one newspost, Tycho tried to describe what his actual job was—he settled on “Free time...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Space Boat Kickstarter Demo First Impressions

    ...the redemption code for free, and that still makes this experience closer to my dreams coming true than I usually get and probably closer than I’ll ever get again. So...

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Hello out there, and welcome to the newest edition of testgame.exe: Making the Adventure. (Unless you’re in the future and reading this, in which case maybe I’d better just call...

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    Digital Championship Wrestling: Error vs. Serge

    ...I don’t think I can answer. Paul: Of course you don’t. SmarterChild: For which U.S. city or zip code would you like theater information for the movie “The Pirates Who...