Archive for Category: Columns

  • Dear Readers: The Inventor of l33t

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    You can thank me. You—yeah, you with the teeth—can thank me. I did something ages ago that bettered your life, and I'm not talking about the time I figured out how to put on both socks using only my feet. (You think it sounds easy? Try it sometime.) I'm not even talking about GameCola, though goodness knows many lives has been bettered by that.

  • Player Two: Wii Didn’t Start the Fire

    Columns Columns by Janra Roberts on

    Let me explain to you guys how I write this column. I sit around all month, trying to think of something to write. I read the news; I look at the Internet—and stare. Then I give up and decide to write the editor and say, "holy crap there’s nothing to write about HAVE MERCY. MERCY ON MY POUR SOUL." At that point it’s a given there won’t be anything. To write on something, it has to move me. It has to give me some pause. It has to piss me off, or make me laugh—do something or I feel it wouldn’t be deserving of my precious time. The other day, my friends—wow. Let's all talk about Nintendo, shall Wii?

  • Judging a Game by Its Cover #2

    Columns Columns by Bradley Keene on

    Tearing a new anus into the worst coverart of today's videogames. So we're back again this month taking another well-deserved stab at bad game art. 'Twas fun before, right? So what three games are get

  • Great Moments in Gaming #10

    Columns Columns by Shawn Sackenheim on

    It's a random Friday night in 1992, and I am once again dropped off at the "fancy" mall with a handful of allowance money and a few hours to kill. I check out Kay-Bee Toys and fondle the latest action

  • 0wning the Competition: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

    Columns Columns by Kay Leacock on

    If you've got the money to spare, I'd suggest giving it to Logitech for this keyboard. It is really and truly worth it.

  • Figure Fours and Magic Eights: WWE Judgement Day 2006

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    As I absolutely did not predict, Figure Fours and Magic Eights actually pulled through for us last month! We went 8 for 11 in our WrestleMania XXII predictions, only missing a world title match, a Money in the Bank ladder match and one of the chick matches.

  • What the Crap?: Rampage

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on

    Honestly, what is the ESRB thinking with the Rampage series? With all the games out there where you kill people and decapitate them, they lose sight of just what goes on in Rampage. For those unfamili

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Hello everyone, and welcome to the newest installment of testgame.exe: Making the Adventure! Before we get too far into the article, though, there's something important that needs to be taken care of:

  • Versus Mode: Televised Gaming, The Wii’s Name, Sexism in Oblivion, and More

    Columns Columns by GameCola on

    GC writers Steve Hamner and Casey Levine discuss whether televised gaming belongs on TV, the Wii's name, whether Oblivion is sexist, and more.

  • Dear Readers: Psychology

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Just the other day in psych, my professor said the craziest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. He said, and I quote, that "girls are better at videogames than guys."