Archive for Category: Columns

  • Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on

    Hey hey hey! It's tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime—FOR THE THUMBS. Sorry for keeping all you Thumbatics waiting, but there was just so much info this month that I had trouble cramming it all in. In fact, it got loose and bit me a few times. After several ice packs and Space Ghost Band-Aids, I am back...AND HERE ARE YOUR THUMBS! Enjoy.

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments1

    Last month in Pudding, I ran my own personal list of the Top 5 Xbox Live Indie Games from 2010. This month, courtesy of Joystiq, we have: everyone else's list. It's based on sales figures—specifically, number of copies sold during the first week of a game's launch—and the results, as expected, are completely demotivating. Personally, I'm so demotivated I won't be able to finish this lame joke I think I already used bef

  • [NSFW] Versus Mode: Friend Codes, The Last Story, Region Coding, and More

    Columns Columns by GameCola on

    GC writers Nathaniel Hoover and Meteo Xavier discuss whether Friend Codes need to go away, The Last Story needs to be localized for the U.S., the 3DS needs to be region-free, and more.

  • The L/ate List Apocalyptic [NSFW]

    Columns Columns by Travis Combs on

    Everyone needs a muse in their life, I’ve come to discover. Really, a "support muse" is more accurate. A support muse is someone who not only inspires you, but supports your personal passion even if they don't really understand what it is that drives this passion so much. Like Olivia Newton John and her sisters in all their neon glory in the movie Xanadu. (If you get that reference you're officially fucking awesome, by the way.)

  • The Miner’s Journal, Part I

    Columns Columns by David Donovan on

    I’ve recently figured out how to make paper from the reeds growing down by the lagoon, so I’ve decided to write a record of my experiences in this strange world. I know not why I feel compelled to do this when I have far more pressing and practical concerns. Perhaps I just need a project to keep myself sane, or, failing that, a means of gauging the rate at which I am losing my sanity. Or perhaps one day someone else will stumble upon this journal and find some clue that I missed, some answer to how and why and what this place is.

  • Gamer Girlfriend: An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse

    Columns Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on Comments4

    Who would have known that there was such a fine line between "gamer" and "part of the videogame mafia"?

  • Cleverbot Considers: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

    Columns Columns by Nikola Suprak on Comments10

    We here at GameCola have quite the history with automated chatbots. Back when our editor Paul Franzen was young and naive, and his beard was but a baby and not the epic nest for birds and vagrants it

  • What the Crap?: When This Baby Hits 88 MPH

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on

    Kids these days and their YouTubes and their Vice City mods. In the video I'm about to show you, we see some Marty McFly-like character in a plain red shirt driving around Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in a DeLorean.

  • Gamera Obscura: Block Carnival

    Columns Columns by Jeff Day on

    Happy New Year! So, what did you do to celebrate New Year’s Eve?

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments2

    I am videogames. I mean, not literally---at least, not as far as you know---but what I mean to say is...is...is...is...gosh darnit---writing is so hard!