Search Results for: Paul Franzen
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The Gates of Life: Episode 44 – Two Heads are Better Than…OMG SEA BEARS?!
Columns by Paul Franzen on Choose your own adventure in this RPG-esque adventure that lets you—the reader—vote on its outcome. When we last left our heroes, they were on a quest to resurrect Render: the...
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Sam & Max Season 1, Episode 3: The Mole, The Mob and the Meatball (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on Take everything I said about the last two games and subtract about two hours of gameplay. …. …. …. …. What, that’s not good enough? Jeez. You people. I can...
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The Blackwell Legacy (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on One of the biggest complaints we receive about GameCola is that it isn’t interactive enough. (This complaint usually comes after “the layout sucks,” “the writing isn’t very professional,” “nobody—not even...
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The Gates of Life: Episode 42 – What? Really?
Columns by Paul Franzen on Choose your own adventure in this RPG-esque adventure that lets you—the reader—vote on its outcome. When we last left our heroes, they were bickering over the ownership of a cape....
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Sam & Max Season 1, Episode 2: Situation Comedy (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on Episodic gaming just sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. It really does. I’m talking “buying a PS3 at launch and not immediately selling it on eBay” levels of awfulness. It...
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
Columns by Paul Franzen on 
2 In an early episode of South Park, fat-boy Eric Cartman talks about how independent movies are “always about gay cowboys eating pudding.” The same can (almost) be said for Xbox...
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Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GCN)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on If you think about the concept behind Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy for too long, your brain could, potentially, explode. The idea is this: It’s a retelling of...
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The Shivah (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on If the antics of a tentacle bent on world domination or a bone (a BONE!) disguised as a cow weren’t quirky enough for you, have at this: The Shivah, independently...
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Sam & Max Season 1, Episode 1: Culture Shock (PC)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on For every 6,000 sequels released only to cash-in on a videogame’s name value (see: GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Bomberman: Act Zero, and so on) there is—this is a rough estimate—one Sam...
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The Gates of Life: Episode 39 – RIVERBUTION
Columns by Paul Franzen on Choose your own adventure in this RPG-esque adventure that lets you—the reader—vote on its outcome.Jump right in!; you don’t need to have read the previous chapters to understand what’s going...