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Telltale Developing Episodic Back to the Future Games

News Posts by Paul Franzen on June 9, 2010

Telltale Games, once again proving that its target audience is me, has announced work on an episodic series of games based on Back to the Future, the classic time-traveling 80s...
Portal 2 Delayed to 2011; Hilarity Ensues?

News Posts by Paul Franzen on June 9, 20101

Just received this press release from Valve; take a look!: VALVE ANNOUNCES MAKING GAMES IS HARD June 9, 2010 — Aperture Science, doing business as Aperture Laboratories LLC, in partnership...
New GC Podcast Theme Song

Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on May 19, 20106

Hey, everyone! Just thought you might be interested in getting a sneak peak of The GameCola Podcast’s new theme song, “Five is Average.” It’s by 12 Followers/Meteo Xavier (known ’round...
Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

Columns by Paul Franzen on April 5, 20102

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...
Retro Games Now Trading on Goozex

News Posts by Paul Franzen on March 31, 20104

Goozex.com—the Internet’s leading videogame trading site, as determined by “percentage of members that are currently writing this news post”—now accepts NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, GBC, Atari 2600, and even Sega...
Ceville (PC)

Reviews by Paul Franzen on March 30, 20101

To help re-create the frustrating experience that was playing the 2009 point-and-click adventure game Ceville, I’d like to– Ugh. Not this again. OK , I restarted my PC, and reloaded...
Announcement: New Review Scale

Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on March 17, 20103

Attention readers: I’d like to interrupt your regularly scheduled “hitting F5 on GameCola.net to check for any new articles” for an Important GameCola Announcement. You might’ve read in our “Mid-Boss”...
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition Announced

News Posts by Paul Franzen on March 11, 20101

After I went to bed last night—I think they did this on purpose, because they knew I’d have trouble sleeping after all this excitement—LucasArts announced their upcoming remake of Monkey...
Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past (DS)

Reviews by Paul Franzen on March 1, 20102

I’ve mentioned this before, but I like to take notes when I’m playing a videogame, to make sure I can remember all my most gut-bustingly hilarious thoughts when I sit...
Banadvertisements: A Story.

Blog Posts by Paul Franzen on February 18, 20101

My Girlfriend: Dooo de-do, I think I’ll just have some bananas for breakfast. Doooo de-do… My Girlfriend: Bananas, yum yum, putting them on my plate, gonna eat themmm… My Girlfriend:...