• Bubble Bobble (NES)

    My father was quite an avid gamer, back in the day, with a particular skill for puzzle games. His high scores were eternally etched into the cartridges in our house, far beyond the reach of my juvenil

  • Chains (PC)

    This is a first for me. After years and years of reviewing videogames through various channels and formats, through wild, unpredictable, untamable prose and skits and songs and haikus and diatribes an

  • The Ten Reasons: Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (Part Two)

    Welcome to The Ten Reasons, where I discuss ten reasons why I like or dislike a game. This month, all you'll get are reasons why I like a game, as I finish my discussion of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's

  • Versus Mode: Square Characters, Booth Babes, LittleBigPlanet, and More

    Brendan Becker of MAGFest and Sprite Monkey of GC/Secret of Mana Theater discuss Square characters with wussy-sounding names, E3 booth babes, LBP copyright infringement, and more.

  • Inside the Guide: Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy

    Hello everyone, and welcome to Inside the Guide, the only article on GameCola that discusses writing guides for videogames. You know, sometimes I write a guide and no one ever e-mails me about it. But

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    The Hero of Time

    There's apparently a fan-made Ocarina of Time movie coming out.

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    A Letter about Zelda

    Dear GameCola, I've been revisiting Zelda: Majora's Mask lately. That was a good game. It had lots of sidequests and minigames. Twilight Princess was lame. I mean, it was SO GOOD, but it was lame. All

  • Our New Xbox Experience

    A few days ago, Microsoft released the "New Xbox Experience." This pretentiously-named new GUI for the 360 features a new layout, user-created games, connectivity with Netflix, and Miis. No, I'm sorry

  • My Awesome Free T-Shirt

    I don't even own ANY version of Guitar Hero, but when I saw that I could get this with just six proofs of purchase from various Kellogg's cereal--including ones I actually eat, like Frosted Flakes and

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    Games at Target

    My sister forced me to go to Target the other day, so I thought I'd check out their games section.  It turns out they have THREE distinct gaming sections!  Who knew? Popular Games.  This is the sec