• The Typing of the Dead (DC)

    ...nothing more to say about this. … Except, “Why?” Wait! Maybe this is a metaphor for Sega. The character represents the developers, feverishly typing code to prevent assimilation with other...

  • Contest Results

    ...wants to turn the apocalypse into an a-cop-alypse. Congratulations to BaozakergaX! Email mgray@gamecola.net for your Steam download code, so you can play Resonance yourself and root for the police officer!...

  • Puzzle Agent 2 (PC)

    ...these were easy to code—that all it took was a graphical switchover and some slight rejiggering. The story now travels completely linearly. If someone doesn’t give you the clues you...

  • Gamer Girlfriend: Love, Jealousy, and Farming

    ...affections, but he was also a bro, dammit, and the Code of Manly Solidarity did not permit him to stand idly by while another man was being so slighted. Jealousy...

  • Spider-Man (PC)

    ...it’s very hard! You can also enter cheat codes if you get stuck, or want to get the other costumes early, or if you’re lazy like me, UNLOCK EVERYTHING! Another...

  • Madden NFL ’94 (SNES)

    ...it “in the game”? Is “it” the American football spirit, the pride and quality of the American software developer, or something more literal like assembly code? Another unsolved mystery. But,...

  • Nintendo Publishing Girls RPG, For Girls

    ...possible that it’s a deep, engrossing RPG that just happens to star a girl, and they’ve picked a really unfortunate code-name that makes it sound like it’s nothing but complete...

  • GameStop Makes Up for the Deus Ex Thing

    ...purchased Deux Ex: Human Revolution from the evil retail outlet and didn’t receive the appropriate OnLive coupon code. Joystiq also reports that they’re offering a “Buy 2, Get 1 Free”...

  • The Diary of Samus Aran

    ...shaken. Today I received a distress signal—code name: “Baby’s Cry.” A common SOS with the urgency of a baby crying… The nickname comes from the fact that the purpose of...

  • E3 2011: The Microsoft Press Conference

    ...a jacket. They must have a dress code at this event. They immediately cut into a preview for SSX, the reboot of the SSX snowboarding franchise. It looks like it...