Archive for Category: Columns

  • Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on Comments3

    Welcome to the December edition of those wonderful appendages we call the PSYCHIC THUMBS. You know it's the December edition of the THUMBS...because the calendar says it is December. So! Let's get rig

  • The L/ate List Apocalyptic [NSFW]

    Columns Columns by Travis Combs on

    I’ve been gone a long time. At least, it feels like a long time. I’ve missed you guys, and I’ve missed writing for this site. GameCola has always been really good to me, even if I haven’t always been really good to it. Missed deadlines, late articles, angry editors…all in a day’s work for the world’s most insensitive writer. But wait, come back! I’ve changed, I swear! Bear with me and I’ll make it worth your while. Let’s just go over a few quick things so you can get to know me better, then we’ll be all done with the hand shaking, bullshitting nonsense and we can move along to talking about the one thing you and I definitely have in common, or else you wouldn’t be here;

  • The GameCola Interview: Abraham Lincoln

    Columns Columns by Michael Gray on Comments2

    GameCola interviews Abraham Lincoln.

  • This Week in Virtual Console

    Columns Columns by Michael Gray on Comments1

    Great news, everyone! Former GameCola staff writer Michael Gray had some free time over the recent Thanksgiving break, and not only was he able to participate in a podcast, but he also promised to wri

  • Gamera Obscura: Rhyme Rider Kerorican

    Columns Columns by Jeff Day on Comments2

    Over 8 million people purchased Halo 3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold a whopping 12 million. And Nintendo can't defecate out Pokémon and "Wii Insert Random Thing To Do Here" games fast enough to

  • Versus Mode: The Next-Gen, FMV Games, XBLI Garbage, and More

    Columns Columns by GameCola on

    XBLI developer Robert Boyd and GC staff writer Christian Porter discuss whether we're ready for the next-gen, FMV games, garbage on XBLI, and more.

  • Impaired Closed Captioning: Super Mario Bros. 2

    Columns Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on Comments4

    In early 2010, Google introduced a Transcribe Audio feature to YouTube that translated all speech in a video into useful captions mangled the heck out of my Mega Man videos, telling my viewers that "w

  • Gamer Girlfriend: An Obscure Prestige Class, Indeed

    Columns Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on Comments2

    Well, it’s official: after ten months of planning, organizing, coordinating, arranging, rearranging, and generally unleashing my Bridezilla Fury upon the world, I have finally attained the status of Gamer Wife. Along with the accompanying name changes and the addition of a new ring to the third finger of my left hand, I’ve noticed that the attainment of this obscure prestige class has caused a noticeable shift in how I view myself. Not only am I now the wife of a gamer, I can no longer deny that I myself have some “more-than-casual” gaming tendencies.

  • What the Crap?: Silly Sports Scarcity

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on

    I know there isn't much sports chatter here @ GameCola, but sports games are a great chance for non-athletic types to juke, putt, dunk, slide tackle, punch, headbutt...whatever your taste may be. In the olden days, sports games weren't simulations; they were what started the idea of "arcade" style, meaning you could sit down with a group of people and play a sport in an unrealistic and fun way, but still stay true to the basic nature of the sport's rules. There's not really that many videogames that do this anymore, and I don't understand why. Such games have a wide audience of both sports fans and multiplayer-game fans, and they're so damn fun to play. If you want a realistic sports game, just watch a real-life sport!

  • Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on Comments3

    So...it is time. Time again for the THUMBS to make their REGULAR appearance. REGULAR MONTHLY appearance! We are back on track, people!! This has to be the happiest moment in the lives of so many of y