Archive for Category: Columns

  • Oh, the Humanity!: Super Mario Bros.

    Columns Columns by Zack Huffman on

    About ten years ago, someone got the bright idea to make a movie based on the Super Mario Brothers video games. The only problem was that the games make no damn sense. Seriously, as awesome a game as it is, there really isn’t much more to it than running through the sewer and stomping on oversized turtles. Well, there’s also the part about eating mushrooms and saving a princess, but I’m entirely certain that that part of the game is real. Every time I eat mushrooms I end up believing that I’m on a quest to save some princess, only to find out that I had spent the last hour trying to smash turtles at the local pet store. Which, by the way, has a shithead for a manager who called the cops after I had already said that I was leaving.

  • Captain Eric’s Super Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on

    Hello and welcome to the newest edition of SUPER THUMBS! This will be a very INTENSE and groundbreaking issue of SUPER THUMBS but.. I can't tell you why just yet. You see we have to sneak it by the ed

  • Mid-Boss: The Nintendo DS

    Columns Columns by Stuart Gipp on

    Haha! You miserable fools thought you had defeated Mid-Boss! But it looks like I got my second wind, and now your time is up! This month, Mid-Boss would like to assault your pathetic craft with his br

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Greetings, faithful readers of GameCola. My name's Lizo, and I'm making an adventure game. Well, let me try that again. I've had a deep and abiding love for adventure games (you know, the Monkey Islan

  • Dear Readers: Three Years

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    It's been three years, now.

  • Live in Yore World #3

    Columns Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on

    Some games go down in history as groundbreaking, genre-defining masterpieces...

  • The GameCola Interview: Chris Morris

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Chris Morris writes a weekly news/commentary column on CNN/Money called "Game Over," making him one of the most-read video game journalists on the 'net.

  • Dear Readers: Leave Us Alone

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    What did we ever do to you?

  • … of the Month: World of Warcraft

    Columns Columns by Matt Gardner on

    Now, usually I don't ever spend any time thinking of a topic for of the Month until a few minutes before the deadline, as I'm sure many of you have become aware of over the past month (assuming you read this). This time, however, I think I have a reason for procrastinating that isn't "I was just sitting on my ass staring at the ceiling." That's right, it's "I was just sitting on my ass staring at the computer screen," thanks to the MMORPG known as World of Warcraft.

  • 0wning the Competition: The Gravis GamePad

    Columns Columns by Kay Leacock on Comments2

    Gravis has been making their GamePad PC controller for quite some time now. It has not changed very much at all, save for a few upgrades to Keep With the Times. The GamePad is a basic controller, reco