Archive for Category: Columns

  • 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!

  • Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Stuart Gipp

    Columns Columns by Stuart Gipp on

    Stuart Gipp's top 10 favorite videogames.

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    Advice for the Sensitive Gamer #11

    Columns Columns by Jenna Ogilvie on

    Jenna Ogilvie offers advice about making friends with "real gamers," boyfriends who spend too much time gaming, and more.

  • You Learn Something New Every Play: Tomb Raider

    Columns Columns by Brian Vanek on

    Not many people I know like the Tomb Raider series.  I don't know why.  The main character is very likeable and attractive.  The plot is all about exploring.  Oh well, I'll keep playing it as long

  • Preserving the Plastic: Gaming Collectibles

    Columns Columns by Allec Johnson on

    Every hobby now-a-days has some form of paraphernalia to keep the hobbyist busy at all times.  T-shirts, action figures, posters, music, etc., can all be forms of gaming related junk to get your mitt

  • … of the Month: Gameism

    Columns Columns by Matt Gardner on

    People who hate those of a particular gender are considered sexist. People who show distaste towards those of a particular race are racists. What, then, are people who hate or show distaste towards people who play video games, or people who play a particular type of video game? The answer is quite simple -- those people are gameists.

  • Your Top 10 Favorite Games: Ted Gleason

    Columns Columns by Ted Gleason on

    Ted Gleasons's top 10 favorite videogames.

  • How to Be a Gamer – Part 1: In the Beginning…

    Columns Columns by Stuart Gipp on

    Hey, stupid!  Want to be a gamer? Well, this new sugar-free feature can help!  Just follow this simple step-by-step course, and you too will know your "Dynamite Headdy"s from your "Yoshi's Story"s.

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    Games for the Casual Gamer: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

    Columns Columns by Julie Kozarsky on

    The senior trip to Florida was great; nothing could beat the fun in the sun that I shared with 300 of my closest friends.  So in a futile effort to recreate the sun-baked and unrestrained atmosphere