Archive for Category: Columns

  • … of the Month: Logitech PS2 Netplay Controller

    Columns Columns by Matt Gardner on

    Turn on the PS2, load up Serious Sam, get into the game and start playing. Oh my! My online buddy is talking to me! I'd better respond! *fumble* *type* ahh crap dropped my damned controller *shift* ah crap dropped my keyboard aaaaah DAMMIT PAUL STOP KILLING ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO ****ING TYPE!!

  • Games for the Casual Gamer: Super Mario Land 2

    Columns Columns by Julie Kozarsky on

    Sometimes I forget that before my streamlined, beautiful, and modern GBA was even a twinkle in an engineer's eye, I possessed an awkward and bulky Game Boy.  Gray and enormous, it provided my childho

  • Versus Mode: WarioWare vs. WarioWare

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    The main differences between these two games are quite easy to grasp, unless you're the type of person that can't grasp why "gay" doesn't make sense as an insult (i.e., as good ol' J.R. would say, you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer): Mega MicroGame$ is for the Game Boy Advance, and its focus is on single player action; Mega Party Game$ is for the GameCube, and its focus is on multiplayer action. Got that?

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    Dear Readers: LUE Reaction

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    I received a very unexpected reaction to my Dear Readers column last month (though, mostly via "invaders" from the GameFaqs board "Life, the Universe, and Everything"). Many people seemed to think that my game ideas are "retarded" and "gay" (which should give you an idea of the reactors' age level and intelligence) For some reason, I feel that I should address these complaints.

  • You Learn Something New Every Play: Surgery

    Columns Columns by Brian Vanek on

    I was lucky enough to  be watching the local news when they actually had put together an interesting story.  Video games can actually make people become better surgeons.  The newsman spoke with a d

  • Preserving the Plastic: Top Ten Rules to Live By

    Columns Columns by Allec Johnson on

    There are always some basic rules or a code to hold near and dear to your heart when it comes to any aspect of life.  These codes can be anything from "treat others the way you want to be treated" to

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    Advice for the Sensitive Gamer #12

    Columns Columns by GameCola on

    Jenna's Double offers advice about finishing games, kids who play too many games, and more.

  • How to Be a Gamer – Part 2: Beating the System

    Columns Columns by Stuart Gipp on

    Well, now you've made your first step towards becoming a gamer. But now you need to know how to choose a game. It's a brutal, unforgiving world out there.  The stores, developers, and publishers are

  • Games for the Casual Gamer: Cell Phone Games

    Columns Columns by Julie Kozarsky on

    It's happened to the best of us.  You're waiting in a particularly long line, or you're a passenger on a long car ride, or maybe you've finished that Spanish test before the rest of the class.  What

  • Versus Mode: Game Show Showdown

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Anyone who watches the Game Show Network (now known only by the initials GSN... whose bright idea was that?) as much as I do will have seen countless episodes of most of the shows these games are based on. I'm sure there must be some among you who, like me, spend days at a time on the couch watching nothing but Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Riley yucking it up on the Match Game. I'm also sure that there are some out there who say that all games based on game shows a crappy. To those people, I say: "Oh YEAH?? Well your FACE is crappy!!!". There are many titles based on game shows in my massive collection, and rather than do a Jeopardy! vs. Family Feud feature (as was my original intention), I thought I'd take a page out of Kevin Leacock's playbook and just pit them all against one another to see which is the best. So here we go!