Archive for Category: Columns
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Gamer Girlfriend: Clash of the Titans
Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on 
4 It sucks to be a low-level character in D&D. Sad, but true. Your hit points are crap, you have no money or magic items, and your most impressive spells do exactly 1d3 points of damage per casting. I mean, OK, it’s not like the challenge ratings of the monsters you’re fighting are very high either, but still. Best-case scenario, your character is kind of a weakling but still gets a decent hit or two in per encounter. Worst case scenario, he’s completely useless (seriously, try playing a Level 1 Monk sometime and see how much you like being the only person in the party who can’t hold a weapon properly).
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Impaired Closed Captioning: EarthBound
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 3 It's been several months since we last checked on the technological progress of Google's Transcribe Audio, the invaluable YouTube feature that converts speech into text captions that make us sound lik
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Quantum Geek: Episode 24 – Sacrifice
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on “We can’t hold out much longer like this!”
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
Columns by Paul Franzen on 3 Before I get started with making fun of other people's Xbox Live Indie Games, I have a big announcement to make:
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What the Crap?: On Yoshi
Columns by Mark Freedman on 8 Ah yes, our little green friend Yoshi. Let me take you back to the turbulent time known as 1991. America was still adjusting to the end of the Cold War, but more importantly, we were eagerly awaiting
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[NSFW] Gamera Obscura: Magic Bubble
I'VE BEEN WAITING A REALLY LONG TIME FOR YOU TO GET HERE...
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Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation
Columns by Eric Regan on Welcome to the super-special HYPER-HYPE E3 aftermath extravaganza edition of the THUMBS! With sooo much news, a lot of it is bound to slip through the cracks. With that, we move on to the REAL news ab
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The Archive Dive: April 2002
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on Can Nathaniel send you back in time to observe GameCola's history without disrupting the present?
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[NSFW] Poor Player’s Paradise
Columns by Christian Porter on 2 Since the last “Poor Player’s Paradise,” the sun has come out and the first day of summer is just a few weeks away. So, how best to celebrate this? Easy: stay the hell inside your house. It’s hot out—too hot to go screwing around outdoors like some kind of sweaty jackass. Your friends may laugh … Continue reading "[NSFW] Poor Player’s Paradise"
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Gamera Obscura: Jajamaru no Daibouken
AH, HELLO AGAIN.